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Gymnopedies · Post by **Gymnopedies** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 1:58 am

Whats up w/ Uniwire, How close are we?

At least give us a progress report.

DanTimis · Post by **DanTimis** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 7:52 pm

Uniwire has been in private beta (a few selected users have been using it) for a few weeks. We hope to release a public beta (everyone can use it) this week or at the beginning of next week in the worst case.

PhilAiken · Post by **PhilAiken** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 8:11 pm

....and I just sent my Receptor in for repairs......figures....

rtucker55 · Post by **rtucker55** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 10:35 pm

Soooooo,

Are we gonna get it this week before NAMM?

fishermusic · Post by **fishermusic** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 8:23 pm

Hmmmmm.

Post by **Ben [KVR]** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 8:25 pm

Give me, ooh, lets say, 15 minutes...

Post by **Ben [KVR]** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 8:49 pm

http://www.plugorama.com/uniwire.php

rtucker55 · Post by **rtucker55** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 9:45 pm

SONAR is NOT SUPPORTED? Major disappointment…
So does this mean it won’t work at all or are you just speaking that corporate crap again?...

Could you Please elaborate on the issues and the priority level of getting Sonar on board.

DanTimis · Post by **DanTimis** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:28 pm

There are a few major problems with Sonar. As we test more and fix the problems we find we will know more. Here is what we know so far:

1. I think Sonar works like Logic and treats VST Instruments in a semi-offline kind of way. That means that it tries to run the plug-in in big chunks ahead of time. It is kind of like freezing a plug-in, running it ahead of time, caching the sound and playing it back later.

You can force an instrument to be treated in real time by assigning a MIDI input to it. I'm new to Sonar and I don't remember exactly what I did, but when I could play from a MIDI keyboard in real-time, then the MIDI track also played fine. When I had a MIDI track without MIDI input, it did not play.

2. Sonar does not update VST plug-ins when their GUI is closed. We are working with the good people at Cakewalk to solve this problem.

When you instantiate a UniWire plug-in for the first time, the GUI window is opened and Sonar sends updates regularly. UniWire will look on the network for Receptors and connect to them. It may take a second or two.

If you open a Sonar file, Sonar will instantiate the UniWire plug-ins, will not open their GUI, and will not send updates to them until you open the GUI. As a result the UniWire plug-ins will not get a chance to find and connect to Receptor(s) on the network. You will have to open the GUI of each instance, and then it should work. Once it is connected and works, you can close the GUI

3. This is maybe a minor problem. There is a difference between how Sonar and Cubase treat timing (we have not figured out exactly what happens, but we will). If you loop in Sonar you can hear a small glitch when the sound jumps back to the beginning of the loop (in Cubase it works flawlessly).

You can try UniWire with Sonar. It is not going to break your PC or your Receptor. You may have to perform a bunch of extra steps that may be annoying or tedious, but it is possible to get something out of it.

Yes, there is a little bit of "corporate speak" if you want to call it that way. We can also call it "covering our asses." We can't get into this level of details on the UniWire opening page, plus we are working to fix these problems so the situation may change any time.

rtucker55 · Post by **rtucker55** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:21 pm

Thanks for the reply Dan,

Looks like you have already done much work and at least plan to provide Sonar support in the future.

pianodano · Post by **pianodano** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 2:09 am

rtucker55 wrote:Thanks for the reply Dan,

Looks like you have already done much work and at least plan to provide Sonar support in the future.

Man will I be disapointed if not.

Danny

Gymnopedies · Post by **Gymnopedies** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 2:33 am

I cant download these updates: Javascript void(0). in both I.E. & AOL browsers.
Can you provide a non-Java Link?
Thanks...

DanTimis · Post by **DanTimis** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:31 am

I think you did not check the check box that says that you agree and you don't see the error dialog. Make sure you check the check box, then try again. If it still does not work, Ben will have to figure out how to solve this.

RecordingArts · Post by **RecordingArts** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 5:34 am

Congratulations on getting UniWIre out the door. I can only imagine all that's involved. Thank you for the hard work!

-Vincent

fishermusic · Post by **fishermusic** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:12 am

Although it was not approved for Pro Tools, I converted the Uniwire VST to RTAS and messed around with it for a bit. Worked great! Obviously this is not much of a test, but it did exactly what it was supposed to do.

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