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Please try downloading and running the Aalto presets installer again. The default location for presets changed from 1.4 to 1.5.
OK, now I see enko was talking about the same problem. It's easy to fix-- just an oversight / lacking feature because I never have any external volumes connected here.
Ah, OK, I'll address this in the next update.
I tried to find sounds that weren't too resonant in themselves, mostly. The idea being granulator as "exciter" and the resonators doing their job. Of course, nearly every sound have some kind of resonance, so, this rule always gets broken to some extent. And granulating lots of things just sounds cool.
The samples have to be short because they are all loaded into RAM when the plugin is created.
MIDI signals are quantized to note values in the KEY module. If you put in an LFO or whatever as pitch to the granulator it is not quantized.
Thanks for the patches! I would either post the granulator sound somewhere like Soundcloud, or avoid using custom sounds in patches you want to share.
Someday I would like to write a kind of packager that makes it easier for people to save and load patch+sounds. But this is a ways off. And in any case, they won't fit in a forum post!
@adamj, I am guessing you haven't installed the new samples and patches yet. They can be found on the Kaivo product page. This should fix the problem you are seeing.
the window retains it's size and location only if presets are not changed
Fixed for the next update.
I just checked that the Kaivo Samples and Patches installer is installing scales into the right place on Windows. It seems to be OK here. The installer puts them into ...Administrator/appdata/roaming/Madrona Labs. There should be a "Scales" directory in the "Madrona Labs" directory alongside Aalto, Kaivo.
They would need to be installed in the folder of whatever user you are running your DAW as. If I understand you right, you say there are empty folders with the scale names? I'm not sure what you mean by maps. If there are empty folders it could be that the installer failed somehow. I would run the installer again and look for errors.
@enko... I think I see what you mean. I could make some different starting points in the "from" menu that would be saved.
@jbe, thanks for the feedback --- can you send me an email to support at madronalabs.com with some more specifics? (OS, DAW version, kind of file you were importing, the very last thing you did before the freeze, etc.)
Yes certainly, you can just go download it right now!
Thanks for reminding me!
In general, the idea of a license transfer does not make a lot of sense to me. But I came to realize a lot of my customers felt differently. So I have been doing transfers here for anyone who asks nicely.
The $10 fee is what I ask to do the transfer. Either the buyer or seller could pay it.
I realize clarity is lacking here. But I'm still figuring this out, and basically experimenting right now. If it keeps working out OK I'll write up a more concrete policy.
@jcancelo No problem, I brought your license up to date so you should be good to download 1.5 now. If you have any more questions, please send me an email at support @ madronalabs.com.
Hi there and welcome.
There are so many microcontrollers out there. I don't really have a suggestion. For the Soundplane we designed our own board around a TI DSP. But I did look at the Beaglebone Black the other day for a while. It looks like it has a bunch of power. If I were starting a DIY project I might try using that.
Lots of the other details you mention are addressed in the paper. But that's only one implementation and there are many other ways to do it. typical capacitances are in the 10s of pF. The cutoff frequency is not an issue anywhere, the cap. changes the gain of the circuit equally from 0--DC more or less.
I would definitely start with one squishy capacitor first, and see what you can do.
I don't understand what happens when you guys are saying you can't log in. What happens instead? And then, I guess it is intermittent, or you couldn't be here? Did you do anything different to get logged in?
re: Logic and graphics I have fixed a possible issue for the next update. I'll get Aalto 1.6 out ASAP so please stay tuned and let me know how it goes.
This update fixes a weird font display problem that happened on some Macs.
Also, the fix to the note-off problem in 1.1 was not working in all situations. This fix should be better.
Also the "note lock" feature is restored for those who want it. When "note lock" is selected, the note is only sent when a touch is first detected and does not change during the duration of the touch. This is good for, say, triggering a different sample or a different note on each key, but still having the x and y and z parameters of the touch to affect the sound.
Depending on your host you may have to hold shift before turning the dial to get the fine tuning.
Do all dials move too fast or only maybe only those with detents on them? What OS are you on? Can you tell me another plugin I can demo where the knobs work well for you?
It seems whenever I change the mouse ballistics, I make someone happy and someone else sad. Still I'll do what I can.
update coming very soon, but no new models in it. more focus on usability.
Hi Roland,
Always a pleasure! Thanks for the report. I can't hear anything wrong in this patch you posted. But maybe that's because the sample is a shifting cloud of different pitches.
I've gotten another report about something similar going on with the granulator. I'll make some of my own longer sounds to test with and see what I can figure out.
Cycling 74's Gen might be a good tool for this kind of thing. I haven't found time to try it.
hi randy, what i meant was that the inlet amount dial for Host Ratio should ideally snap to the timing divisions.
I'll give this some love with the upcoming sequencer overhaul.
the sequencer rate is PLL-driven, so even though the dial may not seem to go to the right place, there should be a little range around the simple ratios where the tempo locks into the right ratio exactly.
OSC: 1st ADSR, Filter 2nd ADRS, LFO to main volume/reverb/whatever, Sequencer to play ARP/sequence.
A very common situation i think.
Yes, I understand. I'm just trying to explain the thinking behind the design. Aalto's design is a tradeoff between lots of attributes. Having a simple UI, so that you can learn Aalto as a performance instrument , was probably my #1 goal behind great sound.
A good idea awaiting v2.
This is fixed for the next update.
It's only a problem with the 64-bit VST.
I just tried to reproduce this with Live 9.0.6 and Aalto 1.5 as well as Kaivo. I can't make the problem happen. With either Aalto or Live's window selected the space bar and other keys work as they should in Live.
I am now downloading Live 9.1.1 to try it out. Jeez, the update is 686 Mb. WTF.
[EDIT] OK now I can reproduce it. The VST has the problem but the AU does not. So, while I try to fix this, you can always use the AU.
also, feeding multiple voices into the Seq Rate when host-sync'd should sync the dif voices to multiple timing divisions.
doesn't this work? Can you send me a patch where you tried this?
You may have noticed there are three possible sources of oscillations for modulation: the sequencer, the LFO and the ENV2 in repeat mode. These offer a lot of possibilities! So there will be only the one LFO proper, but if you want 3 LFOs for some reason, you have them. This basic design won't change.
I might add more flexibility to the LFO in v.2. It's not as easy as it seems, because other shapes besides sine potentially cause lots of aliasing in the things they modulate.
Are there any parameters that can be changed?
Nope, it is what it is. Kind of like the reverb in an old semi-modular synth like the arp 2600... If you want a full-featured reverb I like the ones from ValhallaDSP!
Hi Thetechnobear, thanks for the comments.
I have been wrestling with the sample Import window for a little while now. In some form it will definitely make it into the 1.1 release. This first version will just let you quickly copy other kinds of sound files to WAV format where they belong and clip them to 8 seconds. In future versions I'd love to add the capability to combine tracks from multiple files.
I hear you about getting sounds in quickly. You can drag and drop into the import window, which should help.