KVR Audio

graywolf2004 · Post by **graywolf2004** » Mon Jun 26, 2017 8:43 pm

Sorry for long silence here. Was busy with hardware prototype and some other things happened in my life so I had less free time than usual.

Still, here's the update: BlueARP v2.2.5
http://graywolf2004.net/wp/?page_id=35

Main thing here - expanded and improved factory bank, around 120 programs.
Added a lot of patterns from my best performances and demo's.
ALso recorded 2 videos.

New features walk-through
https://youtu.be/DBOdInkKho4

New extended factory bank demo & tutorial (showing how to play some patterns)
https://youtu.be/LSz3tlfs1oM

Musical Gym · Post by **Musical Gym** » Mon Jun 26, 2017 9:00 pm

Wow, thanks!

studio4 · Post by **studio4** » Mon Jun 26, 2017 9:29 pm

Thanks for the update. There is a newer version of my skin file here (including two more skins): viewtopic.php?p=6612922#p6612922

Mc UB · Post by **Mc UB** » Mon Jun 26, 2017 11:05 pm

Nice job Oleg!

I've had a quick play, but like you some things take presedence in my life atm, will check again in the weekend. Nice thing, the randomisation options

Posted the update as message on the FL Studio forums! Keep up the good work!

regards, Frank

Yeager · Post by **Yeager** » Thu Jun 29, 2017 8:08 pm

Thanks for the update, but

I replaced BlueArp2.2.3 with the new one 2.2.5 and none of my old project sound like they did with 2.2.3.
All the blueArps are basically some "default preset" , no note variation.
FL Studio 11 32bit BlueArp on W7.

More Info, it seems like it loading preset nr3 "simple 4k Down" in stead of the preset nr 1 which is the right one.
So the right preset is there but the wrong one is loaded

graywolf2004 wrote:Sorry for long silence here. Was busy with hardware prototype and some other things happened in my life so I had less free time than usual.

Still, here's the update: BlueARP v2.2.5
http://graywolf2004.net/wp/?page_id=35

Main thing here - expanded and improved factory bank, around 120 programs.
Added a lot of patterns from my best performances and demo's.
ALso recorded 2 videos.

New features walk-through
https://youtu.be/DBOdInkKho4

New extended factory bank demo & tutorial (showing how to play some patterns)
https://youtu.be/LSz3tlfs1oM

Krovatin · Post by **Krovatin** » Thu Jun 29, 2017 10:15 pm

Thanks, Graywolf, for your generous work.
I think velocity randomisation is a good thing, but may I suggest something like "intelligent randomisation" - to have more velocity in strong beat and less in weak beat? Usually in 4/4, strong beats are 1 and 3, and weak are 2 and 4. I think it is quite practical to have it.

I also would like to mention that I do not like your new "page" interface, sorry. It is less practical then it was before. May I suggest "main page" page, where should be the most frequently used option, such as "steps", "sync", "gate time", "octave transposition", etc.

Again, thank you for your great work and good luck with your hardware project.

Diego_C · Post by **Diego_C** » Fri Jun 30, 2017 4:47 am

Thank you very much for the update graywolf2004.
Cheers

cineplus · Post by **cineplus** » Tue Aug 01, 2017 2:26 pm

There is a problem with CC 64.
When the plugin is in thru mode, sustain pedal won't pass.
Any idea?
Thanks

fycfung · Post by **fycfung** » Sun Oct 01, 2017 2:28 am

Hi! I'm a newbie with BlueARP and I'm having trouble with the UI. In Ableton 9.7.4 (64-bit) on MacOS 10.11.6, I am trying to run the BlueArp 2.2.5 VST-x64 version, and I can't seem to use Key Select properly. I click on k1 and try to scroll up and down and it refuses to hit all values (k2, k3, etc. never show up) it sometimes ends up stuck on Fix.

I tried on the same computer with Reaper64 5.51 and the problem does not appear. Perhaps there is some Ableton-specific issue at play? Has anyone seen something similar? I love the BlueARP concert so I hope I can get it to run in Ableton!
Thanks!

aehaem · Post by **aehaem** » Sun Oct 01, 2017 6:07 pm

Same here...
also i cannot find any factory bank presets. Changing programs has no change at all...

romano55 · Post by **romano55** » Tue Oct 10, 2017 7:21 pm

Is there a tutorial on how to use this section? Thanks.

phreaque · Post by **phreaque** » Tue Oct 10, 2017 7:50 pm

romano55 wrote:Is there a tutorial on how to use this section? Thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9pV7s ... VwOkOA_3AQ

Graywolf, the developer's channel. Explaining everything in a very nice way.

romano55 · Post by **romano55** » Wed Oct 11, 2017 8:23 pm

Im inserting different presets in each of the program sequencer slots. Some presets are 8 steps and some other`s are 16 or 32 steps. If I want the presets to be all 16 steps. e.g. how do I do that? Thank you.

graywolf2004 · Post by **graywolf2004** » Sat Oct 14, 2017 11:07 am

fycfung wrote:Hi! I'm a newbie with BlueARP and I'm having trouble with the UI. In Ableton 9.7.4 (64-bit) on MacOS 10.11.6, I am trying to run the BlueArp 2.2.5 VST-x64 version, and I can't seem to use Key Select properly. I click on k1 and try to scroll up and down and it refuses to hit all values (k2, k3, etc. never show up) it sometimes ends up stuck on Fix.

I tried on the same computer with Reaper64 5.51 and the problem does not appear. Perhaps there is some Ableton-specific issue at play? Has anyone seen something similar? I love the BlueARP concert so I hope I can get it to run in Ableton!
Thanks!

Maybe it's something about mouse wheel acceleration on OS X. My testing capacity on OS X is very limited, but in my tests in Reaper I saw the following. When you scroll slowly, nothing happens. When you scroll faster, it jumps to tle last of first value. It's because of this damn mouse wheel acceleration, which is ON by default, and there's even no option to turn it of via the system settings.
There is a way to do it from terminal though. I took it from here:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questio ... -the-mouse

Open the terminal and paste the command
defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.scrollwheel.scaling -1

In my case (Reaper) it made scrolling much better. I'll try to test in Ableton live later tonight.

fycfung · Post by **fycfung** » Sat Oct 14, 2017 3:29 pm

graywolf2004 wrote:
fycfung wrote:Hi! I'm a newbie with BlueARP and I'm having trouble with the UI. In Ableton 9.7.4 (64-bit) on MacOS 10.11.6, I am trying to run the BlueArp 2.2.5 VST-x64 version, and I can't seem to use Key Select properly. I click on k1 and try to scroll up and down and it refuses to hit all values (k2, k3, etc. never show up) it sometimes ends up stuck on Fix.

I tried on the same computer with Reaper64 5.51 and the problem does not appear. Perhaps there is some Ableton-specific issue at play? Has anyone seen something similar? I love the BlueARP concert so I hope I can get it to run in Ableton!
Thanks!
Maybe it's something about mouse wheel acceleration on OS X. My testing capacity on OS X is very limited, but in my tests in Reaper I saw the following. When you scroll slowly, nothing happens. When you scroll faster, it jumps to tle last of first value. It's because of this damn mouse wheel acceleration, which is ON by default, and there's even no option to turn it of via the system settings.
There is a way to do it from terminal though. I took it from here:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questio ... -the-mouse

Open the terminal and paste the command
defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.scrollwheel.scaling -1

In my case (Reaper) it made scrolling much better. I'll try to test in Ableton live later tonight.

Thanks so much for looking into this! I am having this problem on my trackpad. I haven't had a chance to test with an external mouse since looking at your article.

I should say, I never had a problem with Reaper to start with, so I am suspecting it's an Ableton-on-OSX-specific bug somehow. Strangely, it doesn't seem to affect all the rows either; at least, after I fussed with these settings, and used the -AbsoluteMouseMode setting in Ableton Options.txt, the "Scale Step" and "Step Type" entries seem to work, but the "Key Select" and "Octave" don't.

Is there any way to work around it with some sort of alternate key entry? Like, if the up-down arrows could be used to change these, then I could at least still use this in Ableton, even if I couldn't set it with the mouse. Thanks so much!

Also, I was looking at the P320:Select_01 and it seemed to skip up like 2/2, 4/4, 8/8, etc. whereas P128:Semitone_01 skips up like -12/0, -11/6, etc.

In Ableton, I can see P320:Select_01 skipping up the way it should, but yet the button's value skips straight to "Fix". Seems like the buttons where the value is mapped numeric-to-different-numeric (e.g., scale step that maps 0 to -12) seem to work in Ableton, but the one that are mapped numeric-to-state (e.g., key select that maps 4 -> k1) have their button values skip straight to the top value even as their numerical values increment properly.

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