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AdmiralQuality · Post by **AdmiralQuality** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:20 am

bduffy, thanks!

payt69, have you tried changing your Poly-Ana background? There's currently a few choices that you might find easier on your eyes. http://www.admiralquality.com/products/ ... ackgrounds

Not planning a new interface any time soon, but I wouldn't completely rule it out either.

I dunno... I like it!

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:49 am

I've said it before, one vote for keeping it as is.

loopdon · Post by **loopdon** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:16 am

I like the gui + sound a lot. It's unique.

funkychickendance · Post by **funkychickendance** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:43 am

I might scale it down a bit, but change the look? No, it's very distinctive. Why do all GUIs have to look the same?

/fnx

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:00 am

Yeah, it looks different, and it looks exactly like it sounds! And now that flatscreens are becoming commonplace, it's becoming less of a concern. But I'm a total fanboy, in case you couldn't tell.

How many presets will this ship with?

payt69 · Post by **payt69** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:04 am

AdmiralQuality wrote:bduffy, thanks!

payt69, have you tried changing your Poly-Ana background? There's currently a few choices that you might find easier on your eyes. http://www.admiralquality.com/products/ ... ackgrounds

Not planning a new interface any time soon, but I wouldn't completely rule it out either.

I dunno... I like it!

well i've been paying with it for a while now. It's been long since a synth kept my attention for this long.. i'm creating some interesting sounds with it, and i'm getting used to the way it looks.

Big thumbs up for this synth

Improv · Post by **Improv** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:53 am

AdmiralQuality wrote: Are you hitting a key or keys so the sound can get through the envelopes?

Yes.

(There's a new hold button to the right of the keyboard to help here.

Ok, but it makes a drone sound that drowns out the incoming synth.

And you need to press the IN-1 and/or IN-2 buttons on the filters if you want to use the incoming sound as sound. Otherwise incoming sound is just goes to the IN-1 and IN-2 modulation sources, which you can use to make envelope following effects, etc.

I know, did that already.

Was it either of those things? If not, don't worry, we'll work through it.

SUCCESS!

Once I turned down Amp level on OSC1,2, and 3, the drone obviously disappearred. Then I was left with the incoming signal being sent thro Poly-a's filters. Looking at it now, it seems obvious, but yesterday it sure wasn't!

AdmiralQuality · Post by **AdmiralQuality** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:35 pm

Good stuff Improv!

Did you get a chance to try that FX patch I posted for you?

This one applies a envelope following filters (as many as you play notes) to the input:
http://www.admiralquality.com/products/ ... wInput.zip

Goes good on guitar. Kind of like an auto-wah, but there's as many auto-wahs as you play notes, all in tune with each other (I find playing big spread out fifths and octaves quite effective with this patch.)

Here's one that acts like a comb filter where the teeth of the comb are determined by which notes you play:

http://www.admiralquality.com/products/ ... Filter.zip

Try playing fast arpeggios with that one in the same key as the audio on the track you're processing. You can play the music in the music!

AdmiralQuality · Post by **AdmiralQuality** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:19 pm

Hey folks,

I've got a bug report from an Ableton Live user. He gets occasional stuck notes in Ableton and says it's not returning to tune after pitchbending (either that or the pitchbend is moving on it's own, the behavior he reports kind of keeps on changing.

)

Anyway, just wanted to throw this out there. Anybody else seen this? In any host? And, if you're an Ableton Live 6 user who's NOT having any problems with your Poly-Ana, could you let me know as well. I fear it might just be this one guy's system that's somehow special as I haven't heard these reports from anyone else.

Please post here, email, or PM me with your Ableton observations.

Thanks everyone.

payt69 · Post by **payt69** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 5:19 pm

HI!

Well it's an inspiring synth. I'm not sure if it's because of my setup (my compy seems a bit cranky as of lately), but i can't run more that 2 instances of poly-ana. If i try anyway, then the result is silence; none of the instruments make any sound anymore. I'm using cubase SX 3 btw.

I did manage to make this little ditty though. It turns out that poly-ana can come pretty close to what used to be a typical CS-80 sound, which no other synth i know has been able to reproduce too well. This seems pretty close though.. it;s the 'guitar' sound we all know from songs like 'to the unknown man'.

Just have a listen:

http://www.moonbase69.nl/mp3/clips/polyana-01.mp3

The strings are also poly-ana, the bass isn't.

Boulotaur2024 · Post by **Boulotaur2024** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 5:58 pm

Hey very nice piece, yea I agree, Poly-Ana can sound very lively and organic, a bit like Cs-80. (that's why I bought it). I'm pretty sure that if you could extend this to last more than >3 min. AQ would gladly add it as a demo on his site.

Btw I'd already heard and even commented some of your tracks payt, and I know you've got a lot of potential (at ?) building solid melodies. Show us what you got man ; )

edit : what about adding some modulation/vibrato to the tail of the 'guitar' sound btw ? (Imo, the snare's a bit too harsh or loud, dunno, but that may just be me)

AdmiralQuality · Post by **AdmiralQuality** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 6:09 pm

Hey Payt69, nice groove!

I just did a little test with 4 instances of Poly-Ana in SX 3 and it's working fine. Could you try reloading your project (actually, restart the host entirely) and seeing if it gets better? If that doesn't help, could you try just creating a new project with 3 or more Poly-Anas and 3 or more MIDI tracks and get them all playing at once.

Thanks!!!

payt69 · Post by **payt69** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:07 pm

AdmiralQuality wrote:Hey Payt69, nice groove!

I just did a little test with 4 instances of Poly-Ana in SX 3 and it's working fine. Could you try reloading your project (actually, restart the host entirely) and seeing if it gets better? If that doesn't help, could you try just creating a new project with 3 or more Poly-Anas and 3 or more MIDI tracks and get them all playing at once.

Thanks!!!

Thanks Admiral and Boulotaur,

I have to hit the hay early today, since i have to get up rediculously early. I will see if i can get something done tomorrow though, and will post results as soon as i have them.

In the meanwhile, here are some of the sounds i made with polyana. You are free to add them to your product if you like, admiral (if you like any of them, that is

)

http://www.moonbase69.nl/mp3/clips/polyanasnds.rar

Improv · Post by **Improv** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:37 pm

AdmiralQuality wrote: Did you get a chance to try that FX patch I posted for you?

Sorry for the delay-I got busy this week. The patch sounds great as a guitar fx-very cool growly wa-wa.

Here's one that acts like a comb filter where the teeth of the comb are determined by which notes you play:

http://www.admiralquality.com/products/ ... Filter.zip

Try playing fast arpeggios with that one in the same key as the audio on the track you're processing. You can play the music in the music!

Oh goody-another one to play with.

AdmiralQuality · Post by **AdmiralQuality** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:12 pm

I've got a report in that Poly-Ana is installing and working fine on Vista now. (Vista 64 even!) So meeks, have you had a chance to try the demo again? It should work for you now.

2 and a half weeks left in the Beta offer. $69.95 (USD) if you buy before April 2. $129.95 (USD) after April 2.

Cheers.

Poly-Ana 1.0 New VA softsynth. 1 week full functioning demo