KVR :: Instruments » Sonic Academy ANA V1.5 OUT NOW! [View Original Topic]
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philterino - Sun Feb 26, 2012 7:03 am

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You can find out all about our awesome new plugin here

ANA 1.5 Out Now.
You can Check some demos from the pack below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UMfslGpkrM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEpJnBY_svE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0dqLwTtptk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFMG7Aq5ecw

https://soundcloud.com/philterino-1/sets/ana-1-5-preset-pack -volume-1-1

New Stuff:
New Lush Plate Reverb Algorithm
Fixing Modwheel Modulation routing
Adding Modulation Routing to FX and other Sources
Extra VA & Noise Oscs
New Comb, All Pass & Distortion & BP Filters
Polyphony Restrict (makes such a difference to CPU)
Full Polyphonic Portamento with various modes
General Memory & CPU Optimizations
Adding Detune Shape Control (gives linear or exp Curves)
SuperSaw Volumes Balanced
Tons of new Waveforms and 100s of presets.
Added Eq section
New Cleaner GUI.
Loading/Saving Custom Preset Banks/Categorys

Demo is Now available!

ANA 1.03 (03-05-11)

Performance:

CPU performance optimized on all systems
Filter Response Improved - Now responds much quicker to Automation and manual input.
Switching presets and categories causing hang - Fixed
Duplicating Tracks with ANA causing audio spike - Fixed


ANA 1.02 (21-03-2012)

Fixes and Bugs

Separated GUI from DSP - Improves graphic performance on all systems .
Changed Registration Folder - should eliminate any users having registration problems.
Fixed LFO 2 Automation Mappings.
Fixed Crash with some 3rd party plugin libraries.
Fixed Midi CC all notes off… stops note hangs.
Fixed Issue with T-Racks, Rob Papen Conflicting library
Increased the performance on Windows 64-bit

7 New Wave Types

38 New Presets

ANA 1.01

ALL

Optimisation of Presets and 32 bit Plugin should give most users better CPU usage.

PC

Fixed 32bit plugin issues on x64 machine
Fixed x64 Crashes when selecting categories
Fixed GUI closing bug
Saving license file to desktop will be automatically picked up when YES is clicked on registration

MAC

Fixed Modulation Wheel bug causing crashes when assigned to filters
Fixed GUI closing Bug

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osiris - Sun Feb 26, 2012 7:26 am

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Ouch. The demos sound AMAZING. I just sprung for Predator, though.
So NO SOUP FOR YOU........................

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JD Gaffe - Sun Feb 26, 2012 7:33 am

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I think you need to work on your forum pitches, a single sentence almost seems like spam.

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Igro - Sun Feb 26, 2012 7:36 am

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Demo songs sound nice. But no demo? Also, are there only three modulation slots? But the price is nice!

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VitaminD - Sun Feb 26, 2012 7:41 am

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A Michael Olsen product? It sounds pretty good.

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philterino - Sun Feb 26, 2012 7:43 am

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True it is a bit short.. i just like to get straight to the point. my bad!

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Cyforce - Sun Feb 26, 2012 8:01 am

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No demo version available?

And system requirements:
Windows
Windows 7 (32/64 Bit),

So works only on Win7? or also vista & xp?

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philterino - Sun Feb 26, 2012 8:03 am

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Demo will be finished and available in a week or so.

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philterino - Sun Feb 26, 2012 8:03 am

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Vista and xp will both work

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grymmjack - Sun Feb 26, 2012 8:04 am

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no demo = not interested.

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Cyforce - Sun Feb 26, 2012 8:04 am

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Well would it be not better(specially for the sales and users) to have the demo directly online on the release?

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grymmjack - Sun Feb 26, 2012 8:05 am

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you should have waited to announce the product until then.

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4damind - Sun Feb 26, 2012 8:07 am

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No time to wait a week for the demo version, it's Sunday! Time to make music
Bought

Download link is valid in may account. Eventually you should generate a mail or something with a info that the the product download is available in the user area?

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U-o - Sun Feb 26, 2012 8:08 am

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Yeah

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Cyforce - Sun Feb 26, 2012 8:14 am

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One short question about sibscribe etc...

I have a "free signup" account on SonicAcademy, did i get so also as free subscriber the intro price of 29.95 GBP? It's not really good written her(which kind of subscribe type is required).

And btw, last week, where i want to subscribe as silver pass subsribtion the orderpage didn't worked, so as btw bug info

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djanthonyw - Sun Feb 26, 2012 8:18 am

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Nice! I'm glad I didn't get dune, this one sounds a lot better. The interface is really great too.

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ClubHo - Sun Feb 26, 2012 8:34 am

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Congratulations and thank you very much for making a great synth!

The 32bit version works so far but the 64bit version crashes Cubase when trying to change patches or categories. (Windows 7, Cubase 6.05 x64)

I can't wait to start a Dune vs. Sylenth1 vs. ANA thread.

I should have registered on your site with my real name.

ANA says "licensed to ClubHo"

ClubHo

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philterino - Sun Feb 26, 2012 8:47 am

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Glad you like it!

Thanks for the heads up... ill look in to the 64bit issue.

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4damind - Sun Feb 26, 2012 8:57 am

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There is a small lag (some seconds) while closing the editor windows in Cubase 6 32Bit this time it will "freeze" the Cubase GUI.
Using the "Instrument Button" from Cubase instead the close button of the editor windows is a workaround but eventually there is chance to fix this?
I remember other plug-ins like the Glue had some similar behavior in earlier versions but with newer versions this bug is gone.

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philterino - Sun Feb 26, 2012 8:59 am

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Thanks! will look in to this! what OS are you on?

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4damind - Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:00 am

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Windows 7 64Bit with Cubase 6 32Bit.

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philterino - Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:03 am

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great! thanks!

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4damind - Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:24 am

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Btw this preview button is a nice idea to make programming of sounds a bit easier. The sequence is hard-coded and cannot be changed?

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philterino - Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:33 am

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Kinda yeah...

there is a midi file in each category folder in the presets folder called preview.mid

you could save your own midi file and pop it in if you like.

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djanthonyw - Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:49 am

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Any chance the audio demos could be downloadable from soundcloud? Soundcloud's compression is horrible.

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philterino - Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:57 am

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Ive set them all to download now!

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4damind - Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:08 am

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Aah, yes. This very flexible. Good work!

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ezelkow1 - Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:37 am

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Any word on the licensing or transferability? Tried looking around but couldnt find anything on the site

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loopdon - Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:56 am

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Basket stays empty. Both in IE and Firefox.
I am logged in.

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philterino - Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:00 am

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couple of people experiencing the same problem.

we are looking in to this now.

try emptying your browser cache.

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Pacha - Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:01 am

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Google Chrome too =|

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djanthonyw - Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:08 am

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thanks. sounds much better, gonna have to buy it now.

When purchasing, do I have to have my username display as my full name if I want the registered name on the synth as my full name?

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bryansonic - Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:33 am

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currently thats the way the functionality works yes,

but i can look into maybe adding this option in the future - not much use to you now i know :/

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bryansonic - Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:35 am

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what version of your browsers are you running?

i can't seem to replicate this issue

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djanthonyw - Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:36 am

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Ok, would you be able to change my current username to my full name for me?

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bryansonic - Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:46 am

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sure can

whats your username and whats your full name!

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bryansonic - Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:49 am

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can anyone thats having an issue adding to basket let me know what browser version they are running?

also are you clicking the top "add to basket" button or the bottom one?.. or both!

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bryansonic - Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:51 am

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just thought that through, - unfortunately your serial is generated at purchase. so i can change your username on the site, but your serial will still be registered with your name at the time you made the purchase.

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djanthonyw - Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:53 am

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that's ok, I didn't purchase it yet. my username is currently "anthonyw", can you please change it to "Anthony Webster"?

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bryansonic - Sun Feb 26, 2012 12:18 pm

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drop me a pm on the sonic forum from your username - mine is 'bryan spence'
and ill change this for you

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4damind - Sun Feb 26, 2012 12:27 pm

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Can you take a look into the mono legato stuff? Portamento knob should normally set the time how long it takes that the next tone "slides" in (in combination with the "slide" knob)? This seems not to work as expected. I tried this with a typical "slided" bass with overlapped programmed notes.

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Pacha - Sun Feb 26, 2012 12:29 pm

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Google Chrome 17.0.963.56 m
Internet Explorer 9.0.8112.16421

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philterino - Sun Feb 26, 2012 12:34 pm

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Yeah we are aware this isnt 100% as you would expect... should be an easy fix.

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4damind - Sun Feb 26, 2012 12:46 pm

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Great!
A have a small suggestion for the oscillator selector buttons: implement a right-mouse button "copy and paste", so settings can be copied between this 2 oscillators.

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heatmaxwell - Sun Feb 26, 2012 12:47 pm

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so am i lost or there no polyphony button? like if i want several voices per osc but only two notes max at a time. only saw the mono legato. i've only spent a few minutes, so i could just have missed something obvious
also, will there be a way to adjust "intensity" like in massive when using talking or grain style synths?


otherwise, sounds are great!!!

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philterino - Sun Feb 26, 2012 12:48 pm

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yeah maybe just a button like "copy to OSC 2" & "copy to OSC 1"

nice idea thanks!

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sfernald - Sun Feb 26, 2012 12:51 pm

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I picked this up. Such a good deal.

Are there any plans for video tutorials to be released on it shortly?

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philterino - Sun Feb 26, 2012 12:53 pm

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There are 5 walkthroughs on the site now just taking you through the basic operation. But there will be more coming on creating specific sounds.

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sfernald - Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:11 pm

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Great. Will check them out..

Hope you do one where you use it to product the tracks (ie, lead, bass, etc) for an entire song. Don't care about the genre so much, classic house, dupstep, etc. Really just want to see it in action on a cool song.

I use cubase and studio one 2 but I don't really care about the daw so much. Just hate ableton live, but I can usually translate whatever is going on in the video to my daw anyway.

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philterino - Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:14 pm

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We will be using it as much as possible in all our future tutorials...

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sfernald - Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:33 pm

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Just FYI. I ran the x64 plugin in Studio One 2 and the daw crashed within like 30 seconds of playing and flipping through presets.

This thing is not ready for prime time. Are refunds available???

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philterino - Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:41 pm

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Yeah if your having problems contact customerservice@sonicacademy.com and we will sort it out.

what OS you on?

there was another user experiencing a crash with the 64bit on PC... its obviously a bug we missed. apologies.

We will get it fixed as soon as possible.

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U-o - Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:58 pm

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I lost interest to buy it.

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sfernald - Sun Feb 26, 2012 2:01 pm

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Windows 7 x64. Studio One 2 x64. x64 everything...

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philterino - Sun Feb 26, 2012 2:03 pm

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Thanks!

We have removed 64bit PC from system specs on website until we get this sorted.

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fceramic - Sun Feb 26, 2012 2:22 pm

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Why the hell are people purchasing a brand new product without being able to demo it? I just don't get it. Sonic Academy should seriously wait till the demo is ready and do a round of open beta.

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sfernald - Sun Feb 26, 2012 2:30 pm

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Honestly, I guess I'm naive. I've never had an issue with a vst I've purchased whether synth or effect. I guess I just assumed it went through testing and beta or it wouldn't be 1.0.

That said, I'm willing to wait for the fix, which I'm sure will come quickly. The synth does sound great. They just need to fix the crash bug.

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4damind - Sun Feb 26, 2012 2:48 pm

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It's rock stable with the 32Bit version so it's not bad to have it released this time. I'm sure that some things will be fixed and sorted out in a short time so all is fine.
Nearly all first released synth had problems and bugs also with Beta tests and stuff. People can wait a week or so if the demo version is available and than try how it works. "Early Adopters" will have fun since today

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ezelkow1 - Sun Feb 26, 2012 3:12 pm

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Im having crashes with the 32bit version in live8. Havent found an exact method to reproduce it yet, but it crashes hard, not even the usual live error box. My mouse goes all wonky and I have a hard time controlling it when this happens, which I have never seen before either, and I have to kill live through the taskmgr

Edit-
i attached a preset over on the SA forums that I can pretty reliably reproduce this with. Just start movin the modwheel around and after a few seconds I have the crash

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ClubHo - Sun Feb 26, 2012 3:30 pm

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There is absolutely nothing wrong with purchasing a 1.0 release.
It was very cool of Sonic Academy to allow people to buy it before a demo came out!
Of course there are going to be bugs. First time I loaded the 64bit version it crashed on me right away. I laughed. No big deal. It's a 1.0 release. I would have to be a complete moron to think there would be no issues. Software released in the wild will always have a few problems to iron out.

Never purchase a 1.0 release of any software if you can't handle it.

Cheers,

Club Ho

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philterino - Sun Feb 26, 2012 3:30 pm

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Ok thanks for that... i will try to replicate it my end and get a fix sorted.

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A.M. Gold - Sun Feb 26, 2012 4:11 pm

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I think this is known as a post-release beta.

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bryansonic - Sun Feb 26, 2012 5:18 pm

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we did run a BETA, and it went well and we ironed out a lot of bugs, but we obviously don't have the massive number of circumstances brought to the table when we go full release.

Luckily our dev is on hand and we should have an update asap to fix the current issues!


- PS> the bug with the Cart Page has been fixed. apologies for that, was a tricky one to track down.

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A.M. Gold - Sun Feb 26, 2012 5:30 pm

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My point is that if you wait a week to get you release and your demo lined up, you will have complaints, but not from customers, from potential customers.

That's obviously up to you, though. If people who forked over their cash and got a crash aren't screaming and hollering, then I guess it's no biggie.

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Selfik - Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:16 am

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One feature request...
Would be nice if we could import other samples in osc 3 and 4 please.
Is there a way to this now

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bryansonic - Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:02 am

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not currently but it has been added to the feature requests on our forum

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DrGonzo - Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:08 am

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Experience says different. Experience say never buy anything that says 1.0. Experience says let the people who doesn't mind things crashing be the test bunnies.

Experience says wait a month or two.

/C

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filtide - Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:25 am

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That's why you get discount

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loopdon - Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:30 am

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Mmh, it's supposedly fixed. It would have been an impulse-buy.
I will check.

Plz, guys, in your own interest, don't let stuff like that happen again.


As minor as it may sound, it could quite possibly be a deal-breaker for some.

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bryansonic - Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:13 am

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apologies

it was a real obscure bug that only presented itself when the browsers locale was foreign - its all working now though

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loopdon - Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:22 am

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Bryan, no problem.

I work in IT support and i reckoned i
prolly would be a problem on your side.

Glad it's been solved in a timely fashion.

It's not like you did it purposely.

Thanks for being so responsive here - i am sure you have
a tool here that's made by people who make music themselves.

And it's nicely priced.

What's not to like?

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ClubHo - Mon Feb 27, 2012 7:54 am

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Hi DrGonzo!

BTW, Your sounds are great, very modern.

-ClubHo

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DrGonzo - Mon Feb 27, 2012 9:07 am

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Thanks a lot!

/C

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loopdon - Mon Feb 27, 2012 11:32 am

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You guys have another customer!

Edit: After a short test i reckon this might just be a game-changer.
Usable right out of the box. Sounds like a record - instantly

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bryansonic - Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:10 pm

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glad to hear it!

we have had our dev working on all the bugs today so we will hopefully have another release ready pretty soon

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shanecgriffo - Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:35 pm

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looking forward to the demo

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loopdon - Tue Feb 28, 2012 2:29 am

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I pretty much only checked some bass presets yesterday and i found them very usable. Probably somehow like Nexus. I really like the g-env or what it's called. Multipoint env so to speak, graphically editable and a wide range of routing options. There is some really nice stuff in this, glad i got it.

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Sendy - Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:36 am

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Why do I want to buy this? It doesn't even have oscillator interactions! (PWM, sync, FM, ring, etc). I think it's just the sound of the filters and oscillators I like. So tempting... GAH!

If you added some more synthesis functions to this, like those above, I'd have already probably bought it.

I'm an idiot, though. I have like every synth

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philterino - Wed Feb 29, 2012 8:19 am

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ANA V1.01 Update Available now

Current users can download from their "My Account" page under "Downloads > Synths"

We got all the main bugs sorted and got some optimization.

ANA 1.01

ALL

Optimisation of Presets and 32 bit Plugin should give most users better CPU usage.

PC

Fixed 32bit plugin issues on x64 machine
Fixed x64 Crashes when selecting categories
Fixed GUI closing bug
Saving license file to desktop will be automatically picked up when YES is clicked on registration

MAC

Fixed Modulation Wheel bug causing crashes when assigned to filters
Fixed GUI closing Bug

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4damind - Wed Feb 29, 2012 8:34 am

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Wow, this is quick! Thanks Phil for this fantastic synth

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sfernald - Wed Feb 29, 2012 9:15 am

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Well, the crash bugs on the x64 version seem to be gone for me. Thanks good.

What's with the cpu usage though? If I play a chord of the preset 'wander bell' a few times fast it maxes out my computers and starts distorting? And I have a monster i7 pc. I can't think of too many synths that bring it to its knees. Even DIVA in divine mode runs fine.

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4damind - Wed Feb 29, 2012 9:22 am

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The closing bug is not gone
Version number will be shown as 1.0.0 and not 1.0.1 (the installer has 1.0.1).

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philterino - Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:20 am

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Our next focus will be on a better note management system so this wont happen.

If you have a spare moment could you go HERE and do a benchmark test. will really help us with optimization.

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philterino - Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:23 am

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Yeah the installer and synth (about) have wrong version number. We will fix in next update.


Could you post HERE with your issue and system specs and as much info as to when this happens.

Damn i really though this was sorted.

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4damind - Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:25 am

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This is my screencast there But I can add some additional infos.

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philterino - Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:30 am

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are you getting crashes with this bug or is it just the lagging?

We where getting some crashes with closing which we thought we fixed and assumed it would fix this too.

must be something else.

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loopdon - Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:32 am

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I shall do what i can in order to speed up development.
There's some great potential in this synth. The presets are pretty coo as well.
More won't do harm. How about Umek's trademark synth on Lanicor etc.
That would almost make me cry

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4damind - Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:38 am

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No but it will block all floating windows, also the mixer windows etc. If one instance of Ana is opened, every windows has this closing lag like shown in the screen-cast.

I remember Cytomic the Glue had a similar bug (used the Juice framework). Eventually Andy (Andrew Simper) has an idea about this behaviour and what has solved it. I will ask Andy, eventually he remembers about this bug.

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philterino - Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:41 am

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Awesome thanks!

Yeah we will be continuing to add to the presets... Ill have a look into that umek on for you.

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philterino - Wed Feb 29, 2012 11:41 am

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cool... what processor have you got?

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manducator - Wed Feb 29, 2012 3:42 pm

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Just bought it. So far so good.

But isn't there a manual, a pdf or something?

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philterino - Wed Feb 29, 2012 3:46 pm

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No manual yet... there are walkthrough videos on the site and youtube which takes you through all the features.

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manducator - Wed Feb 29, 2012 3:49 pm

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Ok, thanks.

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GJK - Thu Mar 01, 2012 7:41 am

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im really in need of a quality synth for modern electronic music production and the demos sound excellent.. now I am hearing terrible things about plugin performance, very high cpu usage, etc... should I hang in and even consider this synth ? really wish I could try for myself before i spend any money ...

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4damind - Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:22 am

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Wait some days if the demo version is available! Should be next week.

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philterino - Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:48 am

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The Demo Will be out very shortly so you will be able to decide for yourself.

We will be continuing to optimize performance in the coming weeks.

Our Vintage Filters seem to be hogging a lot of CPU compared to the standard 2/4 Pole... although we should be able to get them it down quite a bit.

I did a comparison with Imposcar2 and with the same number of voices you get similar CPU results.

I think its just that a lot of our patches in the original build where using more voices than necessary and using the vintage filters when they weren't needed.

V1.01 Presets use resource a lot better.

You can check out Various Benchmarks here

Im having no problems using many instances on full tracks on my iMAC and MAC Book. im getting around 40% CPU with the benchmark setup.

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djanthonyw - Thu Mar 01, 2012 4:11 pm

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Finally got a chance to use this. It sounds amazing.

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GJK - Thu Mar 01, 2012 7:08 pm

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Any comparisons to other synths put there ??

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loopdon - Thu Mar 01, 2012 7:49 pm

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Right up the alley if you are doing dance, predominantly. I also think it's sweet.

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djanthonyw - Thu Mar 01, 2012 7:55 pm

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Sounds like a Virus / Sylenth. I would have to say better than Sylenth though because Sylenth sounds kind of hyped and lacking power in the lower mid frequencies. This one sounds full all around.

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