what a crazy-ass joke
insane

OMG

if I said that link is full of awesomesauce, would that be wrong?

(for the record I don't really use that term)

I was using a trial of Arturia Minimoog before and almost decided to purchase it because I liked its warm sound and the limitation to the most important functions (I'm trying but can do pretty much nothing besides tweaking presets, haha).
Yesterday I was looking around for some alternatives and found U-He Diva.

Truely the best thing that could happen to me. Now I got even more sounds (especially for nice pads), a far better interface, expandle windows, a dongle free software, a good userbase and as far as I can judge yet the code is well written with really complex algorithms - for a lower price. Couldn't believe that.

Just looking forward to the promised multicore support, my notebook (i5 / 4GB RAM / bad cooling) is running at 55% when just two instances of Diva are running in a project at second lowest quality. I can handle that for the love of the quality and guess this won't be a topic in summer anymore.

Seeing I missed the intro by just one month does hurt a little.
But still, I'm really happy. Seems like a good deal for my first synth

Thanks Phaze!

Multicore looks promising, but it's still a hell of a lot of work, and we don't know yet if it really pans out. Our internal (working) multicore version just so gets twice the number of voices out of 8 cores.

We're looking into many possibilities to gain speed though. There's a tiny chance for an algorithm that sounds almost divine, at a fraction of the cost. This needs to be investigated. And of course there's GPUs, AVX and what not, which as of yet is rather experimental or hypothetical as a viable solution.

First, i want to say how much I love Diva. She sounds fantastic.

I'm eagerly waiting for multicore-support thought, as she sometimes put my super fast computer on its knees in Divine Mode. I'm really looking forward that "almost Divine" mode too.

Urs, I have a question about the several accuracy modes : IIRC, oversampling occurs when using higher accuracy, right ? If so, is that oversampling dependent on the host sample rate ? Or do Divine mode sounds the same whether the host sample rate is in 44,1kHz or 96kHz ?
I'm used to worked in 24/96, but if Diva in Divine mode sounds the same at lower sample rates then I may switch to 48kHz or so to gain some CPU resources.

Thanks !

PS : I'm not in the studio so I can't test it myself yet.

Interesting to see the thread about the new Tone 2 synth. There is a short FAQ posted and the third question is:

Q: Will Tone2 Saurus have those fancy 0-delay filters?

Haha yeah! I chuckled a bit at it

me too... Diva is shaping the discussion

No worries. Many filters have been 0-delay for a long time, even MFM 1.0 had them, back in 2002.

Diva however has 0-delay-feedback-filters.

Alright, good to hear stuff is in development

So can anyone guess how much I would benefit from upgrading 4GB DDR3 RAM to 8GB DDR3 RAM and replacing 32bit Ableton Live with a 64bit DAW?

(in case that info is needed: µTonic drums + subtle delays require 15% cpu load, Win7 64bit, i5 430-M (only one core used yet), 7200rpm HDD, network disabled etc. and I use the Allen&Heath Xone:DX controller via USB as my soundcard)

CPU load: almost the same / -10% / -20% / -30% / -40% / -50% / -60% ?
Just would like to know if it's worth a try, the upgrade itself would be cheap.
My guess would be <20% but I actually have no idea ..

I suppose that it has to be expected that one day some developer will come along claiming that 0-delay-feedback-filters were doable with "low cpu" with any whatever "different" method, but still preserve analogue-style non-linear elements, self oscillation and oversampling. But alas, there's no way around heavy maths that comes at a high cost. See UAD Moog filter for reference - biggest cpu hog on my UAD2.

I'm considering as follows: We would publish a formula of a popular open source filter in zero-delay-feedback form and unoptimised but working code. We will also post our heavily optimised implementation as closed binary in a plugin, along with a test scenario. We will then challenge any developer to implement the same formula within a set margin of accuracy and means (SSE etc.) in a significantly faster way. If they manage to make it use less than a third of cpu on the same data, then I'll start believing in methods for low cpu versions.

The RAM has no effect on Diva, I'm afraid

Dunno about 64 bit... twice the registers, but more memory consumption... hard to say...

And there we have it

I must say out of the 4 filters, so far my favourite has been the Multimode filter, can really get some lovely thick solid tone out of that thing.