KVR Audio

tattiemannie · Post by **tattiemannie** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 3:19 pm

OK, no probs bug80, hope you'll think about doing something for the next comp, and between now and then, keep tabs on us and join in the mayhem!

djones · Post by **djones** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:35 pm

I just got hit by an error in Cubase 5.1, when I tried to add an 'instrument track', that being the Acidrack synth.
It says it couldn't find the stereo out of acidrack, and that there's only 1 mono out available which doesn't work with the instrument track.
Does this mean Acidrack is mono?

abstractcats · Post by **abstractcats** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:04 pm

I tried to create a track about two days ago and had something going BUT FL locked up and crashed

I'll try again later to day and may be I'll win

.... or not

Hey Tatti, how are those shock treatment sessions going

PurpleCatfishBettie · Post by **PurpleCatfishBettie** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:05 pm

It appears to me that there are multiple versions of this VSTI; including both mono and 6-voice polyphonic.

I just went and checked on this by downloading both 1.3 and 1.4, but don't see the poly version. Somehow, I downloaded a 6-voice polyphonic version, somewhere along the way; well, at least a .dll called 'acidrack 6-voice poly' or something like that.

Yeager · Post by **Yeager** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:16 pm

mrblitz000 wrote:It appears to me that there are multiple versions of this VSTI; including both mono and 6-voice polyphonic.

I just went and checked on this by downloading both 1.3 and 1.4, but don't see the poly version. Somehow, I downloaded a 6-voice polyphonic version, somewhere along the way; well, at least a .dll called 'acidrack 6-voice poly' or something like that.

They are ALL polyphonic, make sure the mono/legato lights are both OFF.

Don't know about the stereo/mono out...could be mono ?

PurpleCatfishBettie · Post by **PurpleCatfishBettie** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 8:35 pm

Thanks for the clarification.

With the versions I'd assumed to be mono, it must have been like the elephant who is trained not to walk away, even though there is nothing stopping them.

Only on the version labelled 'poly' did I hit the button and find the poly setting.

tattiemannie · Post by **tattiemannie** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:17 pm

Hmmm .. not so good

Sorry to hear folks having problems with Acidrack .... and yet, there are 3 tracks in which are done with 8 instances in Mulab, 10 instances in fruity, and 13 in Tracktion .... so there has to be a way around this beast's behaviour!

Well, its a challenge for sure!

tattiemannie · Post by **tattiemannie** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:12 am

Well, for the record, I have 6 instances running, simultaneously playing kick, snare, hats, bass, melody and a 3 note pad in FL9 and the cpu is coming up to 54% ... so not bad really, and considering I was online at the time as well.

abstractcats · Post by **abstractcats** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:09 am

tattiemannie wrote:Well, for the record, I have 6 instances running, simultaneously playing kick, snare, hats, bass, melody and a 3 note pad in FL9 and the cpu is coming up to 54% ... so not bad really, and considering I was online at the time as well.

Hmmmm, I keep for forgetting I have FL 9 installed, I guess I'm a stodgy old fart...I'll try Acidrack in FL 9 tonight. OH! Flex-n-Stein sounds and works GREAT ! That should be up for the OSC at some point!
Good work mate!

Mac of BIOnighT · Post by **Mac of BIOnighT** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 3:47 am

abstractcats wrote:Flex-n-Stein sounds and works GREAT ! That should be up for the OSC at some point!

It will be, it's the next OSC - man, you used to be more attentive a few years ago, where's your sharp self gone?

abstractcats · Post by **abstractcats** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 4:00 am

Mac of BIOnighT wrote: It will be, it's the next OSC - man, you used to be more attentive a few years ago, where's your sharp self gone?

UUHHHHH HUH???

Missed that one

Mac of BIOnighT · Post by **Mac of BIOnighT** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 4:34 am

abstractcats wrote:
Mac of BIOnighT wrote: It will be, it's the next OSC - man, you used to be more attentive a few years ago, where's your sharp self gone?
UUHHHHH HUH??? Missed that one

Now you know, so start working on the track you're gonna submit!

Bug80 · Post by **Bug80** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 8:43 am

tattiemannie wrote:Well, for the record, I have 6 instances running, simultaneously playing kick, snare, hats, bass, melody and a 3 note pad in FL9 and the cpu is coming up to 54% ... so not bad really, and considering I was online at the time as well.

CPU performance was not a problem for me... I had 5 instances running and REAPER was reporting around ~13% CPU usage, but still the crashes occured (a blue screen usually is not related to a high CPU usage).

DeepFiber · Post by **DeepFiber** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 9:45 am

tattiemannie wrote:Well, for the record, I have 6 instances running, simultaneously playing kick, snare, hats, bass, melody and a 3 note pad in FL9 and the cpu is coming up to 54% ... so not bad really, and considering I was online at the time as well.

I tried to make a layered sound using both oscillators with 3 acidracks running, 2 poly, one mono, filters on all, I get overloaded

damn these netbooks

tattiemannie · Post by **tattiemannie** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:59 am

Yeah you're right bug80, the crashes are not necessarily to do with cpu load, but the cpu thing does appear to be an issue with some systems ... and at the moment there seems to be no pattern to how it will perform in these various setups .... Oh, a bit more info though, I'm using the old version on a single core .... as I've mentioned before, my PC specs are nothing to crow about, but somehow it just works

abstractcats, cheers for the comments re. FNS4 ... As I suggested to Mac, it would be super if you could add a comment to the Flex-N-Stein release thread .... it would be good to keep the thread active, firstly from the point of view that I would like to have loads of folk try it out, and second, to creat a little bit of buzz in advance of OSC11 ( and find out in advance if there are any probs I need to sort out in time for the comp

)

... oh and the shock treatment went well ... no more dreams of standing on the edge of high buildings with no where else to go, whilst closely pursued by giant earwigs made of custard holding ghettoblasters loaded with Dr Hook albums

One-Synth-Challenge 10 - Acidrack!