KVR Audio

stayne · Post by **stayne** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 7:20 pm

The revolution will not be televised.

grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 9:01 pm

guitarzan; markers for the knobs. which knobs and what values -- this is something i can do probably with relative ease using illustrator and photoshop

glad everyone is loving it! it's a product of love! everyone gather round and pass the marijuana and sing songs of unity and love!

seriously it's sweet that it's so well recieved.

joe; if you can add a low cpu octaver, i'll die of happiness

the only thing missing is a tuner

(hint hint) -- of course there are 3rd party ones - including GVST, which is going to be skinnable so maybe i'll do a gvst gtune skin for freeamp

not enough time in the day!

crazed one · Post by **crazed one** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 9:21 pm

Yo!

Where did this thing come from? Looks like I've not been paying enough attention to KvR lately.

I am downloading freeamp right now. Looks promising to say the least.

@ grymmjack: I like your tuner idea for freeamp.

guitarzan · Post by **guitarzan** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 10:11 pm

grymmjack wrote:guitarzan; markers for the knobs. which knobs and what values -- this is something i can do probably with relative ease using illustrator and photoshop

Marking the Ratio controls on the compressors would be the most helpful. A few hashmarks on the Threshold (dB) controls would probably help, too. Something Like the markings on the Kjaerhus Classic Compressor would be fine. That's about it - everything else is just tweak and listen for me.

grymmjack wrote:the only thing missing is a tuner (hint hint) -- of course there are 3rd party ones - including GVST, which is going to be skinnable so maybe i'll do a gvst gtune skin for freeamp

Yeah - GTune is great, so a matching skin would be cool! Of course, a built in tuner would even be better

...future edition, maybe?

grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 12:15 am

guitarzan wrote:
grymmjack wrote:guitarzan; markers for the knobs. which knobs and what values -- this is something i can do probably with relative ease using illustrator and photoshop
Marking the Ratio controls on the compressors would be the most helpful. A few hashmarks on the Threshold (dB) controls would probably help, too. Something Like the markings on the Kjaerhus Classic Compressor would be fine. That's about it - everything else is just tweak and listen for me.
grymmjack wrote:the only thing missing is a tuner (hint hint) -- of course there are 3rd party ones - including GVST, which is going to be skinnable so maybe i'll do a gvst gtune skin for freeamp
Yeah - GTune is great, so a matching skin would be cool! Of course, a built in tuner would even be better ...future edition, maybe?

hrm. ok hash marks.. joe; what are the ranges and such? and would you mind this? it's a background modification only so the work is just update the background in SE -- is this hard to do?

also any other ticks/ranges anyone else thinks would be nice?

matthewjumps · Post by **matthewjumps** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 12:28 am

one question - do we start making presets for FreeAmp now with the beta?

psychopractor · Post by **psychopractor** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 6:33 am

wow ok. Overall this is an OUTSTANDING product. My new favourite plugin for clean and 'lead' sounds (thanks to the synth section). The crunch sounds are passable but still prefer tubebaby and JCM900, and there is a bit of work to be done before it can do all-out gain style (5150) sounds - at the moment I use dirthead w/ speaker impulses.

I still use external effects, but I appreciate the concept. The sound of the amp has gotten better and so have the presets, though they are mostly too 'wet' for my liking: I prefer to hear the raw sound and THEN add effects.

One more feature request that may or may not be useful to other users: A global gate switch. It bugs me that every preset I go though I have to manually turn off the gate. The chatter on dying notes bugs me no end. I'd rather deal with the noise.

But all in all, a very intuitive, appealing, nice sounding, FREE VST. WELL DONE!! When I get a chance I'll put together some presets to throw your way.

guitarzan · Post by **guitarzan** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:01 am

grymmjack wrote:
guitarzan wrote:
grymmjack wrote:guitarzan; markers for the knobs. which knobs and what values -- this is something i can do probably with relative ease using illustrator and photoshop
Marking the Ratio controls on the compressors would be the most helpful. A few hashmarks on the Threshold (dB) controls would probably help, too. Something Like the markings on the Kjaerhus Classic Compressor would be fine. That's about it - everything else is just tweak and listen for me.
grymmjack wrote:the only thing missing is a tuner (hint hint) -- of course there are 3rd party ones - including GVST, which is going to be skinnable so maybe i'll do a gvst gtune skin for freeamp
Yeah - GTune is great, so a matching skin would be cool! Of course, a built in tuner would even be better ...future edition, maybe?
hrm. ok hash marks.. joe; what are the ranges and such? and would you mind this? it's a background modification only so the work is just update the background in SE -- is this hard to do?

also any other ticks/ranges anyone else thinks would be nice?

Boy, there really isn't much room for markers, is there. Maybe just having the ranges listed in the manual will be enough info. You really couldn't fit more than a low and high marker, could you? I don't want to talk you into cluttering up your nice clean GUI. Is it way too much work to do those cool flyout sliders with readout like when you grab a Synth1 control knob?

Hovmod · Post by **Hovmod** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:09 am

I ended up playing with this a lot last night.
The synth is a great idea, and I think it should be possible to get some really cool sounds from that.
I can't say I found presets to replace my favourite PODXT sounds, but I've worked quite a bit at tweaking my preferred tones in there, and no time with this, so I'll wait a few weeks before I say anything more about the sounds.

Pretty and intuitive gui, loads of possibilities, good auto-wah (much better than before, imo) and 10/10 for the synth!

Oh, and THANKS!

JamieSkeen · Post by **JamieSkeen** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 4:11 pm

First of all A Big Thank You To F.S.A for making this great plugin. I have noticed some spiking of the cpu and even the audio output while changing patches with signal going to it. Other than that no problems here.

I am using:
XP Pro SP2
Tracktion 2
Firepod
AMD 64 3500+
2 gig ram
msi mainboard

FrettedSynth · Post by **FrettedSynth** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 6:57 pm

guitarzan wrote:Boy, there really isn't much room for markers, is there. Maybe just having the ranges listed in the manual will be enough info. You really couldn't fit more than a low and high marker, could you? I don't want to talk you into cluttering up your nice clean GUI. Is it way too much work to do those cool flyout sliders with readout like when you grab a Synth1 control knob?

Yeh! that was what I was thinking when I read the request, Not much room for the markings? I had them on the first version but my pedals were bigger. Will look into using a mouse-over or maybe even a dedicated readout for the controls? but that will not come till a later version.
Tuner question: I think the avalible free tuners are great, big thanks to the gents who have made some real nice tuners. So for now I will leave that to there plugins! but who knows what the future will bring

Thanks all, back to finishing up the third beta

Fretted Synth

darcyb62 · Post by **darcyb62** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:09 pm

Very nice. Works like a charm in Podium.

GreyLion · Post by **GreyLion** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:10 pm

+1 on the octaver. Especially octave-up. Get that Hendrix thang happenin'.....

Actually, if you'd like to think about doing an intelligent pitch shifter at some point in the next year or so, that would rock. I suspect that you have much of the technology in place already for that, with the pitch detection and low-latency response happening so well.

Incidentally, I did get the synth turned on from the instructions you guys gave me, though my early atttemps at creating synth patches suck so far. They make an okay sound, but it's not yet the sound I want. It's not about the plug, it's about my need to learn more and put more time into experimentation. That stuff isn't necessarily easy; props to the guy who made the patches that come with this!

FrettedSynth · Post by **FrettedSynth** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:26 pm

GreyLion wrote: Incidentally, I did get the synth turned on from the instructions you guys gave me, though my early atttemps at creating synth patches suck so far. They make an okay sound, but it's not yet the sound I want. It's not about the plug, it's about my need to learn more and put more time into experimentation. That stuff isn't necessarily easy; props to the guy who made the patches that come with this!

Thanks, The included patches were made by me

They were all put together pretty quick to at least show some of what could be done. Its really not much harder then setting up a real synth once you know where all the controls are and what they do?
One thing that might confuse people is the envelope generator! It is setup as an inverted envelope, so the "decay" is the time to rise to the value set as the mapped control.

Any questions just let me know

Fretted Synth

Artvera · Post by **Artvera** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:52 pm

Joe, when I read this here so I think that you will have long work on it. So many requirements here from users ....
But FreeAmp2 deserve it !
It will be winner of year

FreeAmp2 beta testing started