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I have to stay focused on releasing a new plugin for now but I'll be interested to see where this goes and will consider adopting it.
It's high on the list. Have you tried using https://github.com/DLTcollab/sse2neon ? Hopefully I can use it to get madronalib working on NEON relatively easily.
Do you mean, play an audio file through Virta? I have not used savihost so maybe someone else can answer.
Hi Scott, thanks—it's been a difficult year! with the coming of Spring and, hopefully, a vaccine on the way I am finding myself more energetic and less distracted. Getting Sumu done is the first step to what will hopefully be a year of progress on all fronts.
Nothing yet, sorry.
I'm definitely interested in hearing other ideas for resonators. I'd like to sneak at least one into a free update, then add some more ambitious stuff with the next major version.
Wind sounds are definitely a gap at present! You can kind of get there with the chime, and I think i have a couple of presets that attempt it. But a real pipe resonator is definitely called for.
The difficulty of the work depends on quite a few things. Even with mathematically simpler resonators, dialing in useful ranges and curves for parameters can take a lot of playing and listening.
I have a list of UI features like this to add to the next major version. This is on there. Thanks for the reminder.
I have verified the problem on my Windows machine and I'm working on a fix to test with Live 11 and release. Thanks for your patience.
Good looking out garf.
Hi Marc, I personally have never used Mainstage so I can't be as helpful as I would like. My advice is definitely to try the Kaivo demo and see how it goes for you. DAWs are usually not too different from one another in terms of performance but really the best thing is to try it.
To scrub a sample position per note, you can use one instance of Kaivo with either poly aftertouch or MPE data patched to the sample offset. It's up to you whether you want to use MPE for this. If you might have other things to control per note that would be an argument for MPE. But not all DAWs support it well yet.
From looking at Iris just now, my reaction is: not very similar. It will be semi-modular like my other synths, for starters.
Thanks for the additional info. This situation looks a bit complicated.
Interestingly, on my M1 Macbook Air here, Kaivo's interface is definitely slower than it should be, while Aalto's is fine—and all the audio processing is very fast. The presence of the emulator definitely complicates things further, however this setup might be a basis for figuring out what's going wrong here where I have a development environment.
I'm nearly certain this is my own problem.
Thanks for the clear description. A really stellar bug report, I have to say. I wish they were all this helpful.
I'm very sorry to hear you're having trouble. I've also heard from other users about slowdowns in Logic. for example here: https://madronalabs.com/topics/8040-extremely-slow-ui-for-all-the-plugins
I can't reproduce these issues here, or I would have put out an update by now. And oddly, it happens on a variety of machines including a setup very similar to my daily driver (MacBook Pro with Mojave). I'm going to look again at what all these setups might have in common and hopefully I can come up with a test to try.
I can also make a version that would collect usage data on the affected systems for debugging. If you have time to try beta versions specifically aimed at fixing this please let me know and I'll be in touch.
@progster to clarify, if you run into this problem you'll see that after you set the MPE bend range menu it just does not keep the setting.
When I can make time for playing, I try to practice my Soundplane. I know the Linnstrument is a good instrument too. In an ideal world I would have one of every MPE controller for testing!
The thread you point to is mainly related to an issue with pitch bend at the start of notes. This got fixed with version 1.9.4.
Sadly I don't have a Linnstrument.
For some hosts on Windows 10 the MPE pitch bend range menu (in the "gear menu") simply does not do anything. So maybe this is what you're running into and the value is set to something small while the Linnstrument is sending out a much bigger range. I'll fix this ASAP. Meanwhile you could try a smaller pitch bend range setting on your Linnstrument.
Hi and welcome.
I don't know if any patch is a canonical start. Maybe I should make an "MPE default."
The settings in the "gear" menu don't change when you change the patch. They are saved in your project in whatever your host DAW is. These things like MPE pitch bend are meant to reflect things about your controller that would presumably stay the same over use of multiple patches.
I hear you about the manual updates. Meanwhile here's a table of the KEY outputs in the different protocol modes: https://madronalabs.com/topics/4718-key-outputs-by-protocol
Are you on Windows? There is an MPE pitch bend issue there where the menu doesn't work. Please share more info or a link to "bend to the moon" because I'm not finding that.
We are not there yet, but getting close. What I said in the newsletter was, I'll be showing off some new features made possible by my new plugin framework. Nothing about a finished Sumu, which is still a little ways off, but I hope you'll enjoy seeing these new LFO / MIDI learn features.
This is old too but should still be correct: outputs from the KEY module described in MIDI, MPE and OSC modes.
https://madronalabs.com/topics/4718-key-outputs-by-protocol
in MPE mode the X output sends out cc#73 for each note by default.
It's a different VST/AU plugin.
So glad to hear this—thanks for the good words!
If you haven't seen the new Virta video demo, check it out on the Virta page.
@garf The use I have for it is making a very jumpy modulation that does loop as often as you want and plays back the same way every time. A more typical noise gen might be a nice addition.
No, I never added this. From the feedback I'm getting it feels like interest in OSC has if anything diminished over the past couple years. Sorry, it still seems like a good idea but there are only so many things I have had time to work on.
I am currently working on a new design for MIDI parameter mapping that I think is very usable. Hopefully this in combination with some OSC mapping program (depending on your platform) can do what you want.
Thanks for your support!
Thanks for your support! I promise to spend it on coffee
Hi, it depends when you buy Aalto. I'll give a free v2 if you recently bought v1. If you want to know if that covers you now, I am really not sure. It depends when I can Aalto 2 out! Currently, people have been getting free updates for (checks watch) ten years.
There will be a different number of parameters so I believe I will be making a new plugin "Aalto 2" so people can continue using v1 alongside if they need to.
Yup, with Aalto 2 for sure. Lots of useful and fun updates planned for this release.
I've finished a bunch of under-the-hood code that I need to implement my design for Sumu. This is what I can roll out right now, and so I'm updating Aaltoverb with some of the new features to get it tested more and show it off. Sumu release is a little way off yet but I'm full speed ahead on it. Especially with 2020 behind us.
Just posted it!