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Jason Brian Merrill · Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:16 pm

vurt wrote:
ttoz wrote:really? bigges pos i ever used. so glad i managed to resell it.

do you ever actually own anything long enough to test it?

wondered this myself...

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:49 am

Jason Brian Merrill wrote:I just see some features that i recognize from other hosts that i think its cool that orion implemented.

Like what? There's nothing in it, its a maintenance release. Except maybe D'n'D which is for dumbarses anyway ands makes absolutely no sense in ORION's operating paradigm.

ttoz wrote:really? bigges pos i ever used. so glad i managed to resell it.

It clearly wasn't such a POS that you couldn't work out that you didn't need to buy it, which kind of makes your comment look more than somewhat stupid and says plenty more about you than the application, don't you think?

runagate · Post by **runagate** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:52 am

I've never seen Orion before but I was just wondering what this is:

- Genetics is now possible for VST and Internal Effects

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:55 am

runagate wrote:I've never seen Orion before but I was just wondering what this is:

- Genetics is now possible for VST and Internal Effects

genetics has been available in the instruments for a while, it basically takes 2 presets and kinda breeds them to get a whole new preset, ie takes parameters from each preset and voila!
not always great but sometimes very interesting

runagate · Post by **runagate** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:00 am

Thanks, that does indeed sound cool.

Igor 4000 · Post by **Igor 4000** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:02 am

opia wrote:
Jason Brian Merrill wrote:some familiar looking stuff in this update.

boojieboy is at it again

What the hell's a boojieboy

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:04 am

I use it quite a bit when I'm doing presets for my synths. You just keep hitting the "breed" button until you get something you like.

kingtubby · Post by **kingtubby** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:06 am

re. preset blending. I think eXT has something like that too..

Mart.

grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:07 am

runagate wrote:Thanks, that does indeed sound cool.

runa ext has this too, it's called breeding.

grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:08 am

damnit. need to read the whole mess ;(

/me sulks away

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:40 am

BONES wrote:I use it quite a bit when I'm doing presets for my synths. You just keep hitting the "breed" button until you get something you like.

Suddenly there was a flashback of the "Tribbles" episode of Star Trek.

All random functions have ever brought me are ear-piercing screetches when a rez setting is too high. I'd be very careful if using this function at regular monitoring levels.

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 3:58 am

That's the good bit, its not totally random. You start with two parent presets so, generally speaking, your settings should be in the bearable range most of the time.

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:10 am

BONES wrote:That's the good bit, its not totally random. You start with two parent presets so, generally speaking, your settings should be in the bearable range most of the time.

Ah, that's cool. Tolerances within the ranges.

opia · Post by **opia** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:42 am

Igor 4000 wrote: What the hell's a boojieboy

my bad
I meant Booji Boy

Glassback · Post by **Glassback** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:58 am

vurt wrote:
runagate wrote:I've never seen Orion before but I was just wondering what this is:

- Genetics is now possible for VST and Internal Effects

genetics has been available in the instruments for a while, it basically takes 2 presets and kinda breeds them to get a whole new preset, ie takes parameters from each preset and voila!
not always great but sometimes very interesting

Just to expand on this a little - genetics has always been available in Orion for VSTi's, but not Orions onboard synths. Now it is. I always wondered why it wasn't so this is a logical fix imo.

Within any synths preset window, you can select two presets and hit 'Breed' for a whole new sound. If you like the presets as bases but don't like the sound it throws at you after a breed, just press 'Breed' again... and again... until you get that sound. Or you can choose to select two random presets and breed those. Chances of coming up with a new sound? Very high.
H.G.Fortune's synths generally have something very similar on them in the form of the 'Lazy' buttons, as does Oatmeal with its 'Random' button.

All in all, a good update, but still sans the docked time display. (Cue blood and bile spat from the mouth of bones.

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Orion Platinum 7.1 is out