Just downloaded the Lite demo and am blown away by the sound. Motion is life, said Da Vinci and here you hear how true that is.

Simply awesome, great GUI, too.

Only one problem, and it's a very (edit- "fairly") big one for me- no microtuning! The sound is so superb (and I have the reverb turned completely off on the patch I just made) that I'm going to try going through the hoops with retuning via Scala, but built-in .tun or .scl tuning support would put this thing into the stratosphere.

I should add that the Scala relay, via Maple, works just fine so it's not a showstopper. The problem is that with the relay, I can't hear anything as I drag a note in the key editor. This is usually no problem, as I hear it in my head first and know where to put it, but one thing I do a lot is use different "shadow tunings" which have a large number of irregularly spaced microtones. I can hear where a note event is supposed to go, but the physical reality of the key editor makes it a bitch to hit exactly the right spot the first time, as you can imagine with say, 36 oddly spaced microtones in an octave. This means I often land a key or two away from where I want to go, then drag the note up or down to the right place. It goes lightning quick if I can hear it as I drag, but with the relay I have to close the editor, listen, reopen, etc.

Of course this is a sequencer limitation as well- customizable colored keys in the key editor or ability to use alternate notation systems in the score editor would make everything easier. Only Tonescape has these kinds of features, but it doesn't support MIDI relays yet.

Anyway, I'm fortunate to be using a strong laptop, but for those with less powerful computers, the fewer relays and virtual MIDI cables, the better. And microtuning is becoming a standard feature as more and more people desire to actually make music and not just exercise combinatorics on a dozen tones.

-Cameron Bobro

Hi,

Thanks for the compliments about the sound . Basic support of .tun files shouldn't be very difficult to implement, and this is probably why it's becoming more frequently supported. I've had this request once before yours, but the vast majority of people are SOOOOOO conservative and stick to the tempered scale

First thing I'd like to get out is Mac support, which is comparatively a more important feature than micro-tuning... We've been stuck with a few tricky GUI issues on the Mac version for a good while + I've been busy working on third party projects, so little progress has been made on the Mac port during the past months due to this very hairy couple of problems and lack of time to solve them (one was eventually fixed recently, though). Micro-tuning might be supported in a future software update, but there will likely be none before the loooong due Mac version is out.

Meanwhile I found this on the web, dunno if it could be of any use to you: http://www.tobybear.de/p_midibag.html (check out the Microtuner plugin). From what they say about the principle of the plugin, I don't understand how this thing can work on a polyphonic track, though.

just buy today, it's a fantastic instrument. i use it with a xiosynth from novation ( with midi pad for k osc and v osc , thanks for the very useful midi learn)and it's really great.
i'm totally agree with microtuning, it will really give access to a new world of sound. for exemple, astralis ( a, b and c ) use this system.

anyway , congratulations I'm very impressed

I would be interested in this synth, but it does not seem to be supported at all anymore, and it is still $139. I wonder if developers could make a decent amount of money on their unsupported software by selling at a discount without any guarentees. I bet Audeon would sell a lot of these at $50.

Anyone from Audeon out there at all?

It seems they barely visit this forum at all, and I will say this: I purchased UFO shortly after it came out, and it really is completely original, the Transmodal Synthesis thing _is_ special.. but I'm not impressed with their support. I've had a couple of problems with the GUI (crashing when functionality which will create another graphic is used) and ModWheel functionality which they have been hesitant to address, and automation is a bit dodgy, which all add up to a not-entirely-useless peice of soft tech.

A massive shame in my book, I would use it, and promote it(!), a lot more if I felt they were activtly involved in it's development. Sadly, it feels like they are sitting on their laurels trying to do all they can not to keep customers happy.

Buy it, you'll like it (it mostly works), but if you have a problem, they are unlikely to fix it unless other folks report it.

Perhaps if they put up a list of the reported problems in this forum, so that users could also test those problems, they might be able to slowly eliminate the 'crashy' ones..

CinningBao,

Thank you for your insights. There are too many new synths at the UFO price range to justify buying a synth that mostly works, with no apparent interest from the devs themselves.