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otristan · Post by **otristan** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 11:45 am

bnz wrote:got my ilok today. downloaded the license to the dongle and everything worked. no problems at all.

Happy to hear that.

bnz wrote: a little feedback for the uvi guys (who have been very helpful so far!): i kind of dislike the patch browser in uvi workstation. the browser keeps scrolling to the right and i loose track of the hierachy i am in. i think it would be better if the plugin window had (maybe optionally) more width or the expansion of the categories would be displayed in a tree rather than this mac-style browser. the window could resize dynamically if thats possible. i believe that proper browsing of the patches is really one of the most crucial things for a product like uvi workstation and i think this currently is pretty, but not very practical - you always have to scroll back to the left to make changes in your selection which is really annoying.

Will take a look. Still you can use prev/next on each part if you want to quickly browse presets in a folder.

bnz wrote: another thing for the non-uvi guys: does anyone have the acoustic piano. is it good? the demos sound nice, but i haven't heard any comments from somebody who has bought it already except for a comment somewhere that "even the uvi grand piano" sounds better than akoustik piano from native instruments - whatever that means.

Some comments on another forum.

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/new-prod ... piano.html

HTH

otristan · Post by **otristan** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 11:48 am

jeffersoncasey wrote: Just want to drop some opinions on the UVI Workstation, since my keyboard doesn't have any velocity curve setting, I wished UVI Workstation has more curve setting instead of just heavy, linear, light, and fixed. But I think I'm a minority here so treat it as a wish.

Should be doable. In fact, internally this is flexible curve and we have only provided settings for it.

Still you should be able to find some VST MIDI plugin which remap velocity.
But I agree it won't be available in StandAlone version.

jeffersoncasey · Post by **jeffersoncasey** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 5:55 am

bnz wrote:another thing for the non-uvi guys: does anyone have the acoustic piano. is it good? the demos sound nice, but i haven't heard any comments from somebody who has bought it already except for a comment somewhere that "even the uvi grand piano" sounds better than akoustik piano from native instruments - whatever that means.

I got it. From what I heard from the demos, I believe it's the default patch they used for the demos.

How does it sound? Well, simply the best out there.

otristan wrote: Should be doable. In fact, internally this is flexible curve and we have only provided settings for it.

Still you should be able to find some VST MIDI plugin which remap velocity.
But I agree it won't be available in StandAlone version.

I'll look for velocity remap plugin for the mean time.

Initially the light touch (means easier to obtain heavy velocity) is OK but still too light for my keybaord. I think maybe it's ok to keep it simple? There're velocity remap application that work as standalone too.

bnz · Post by **bnz** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 10:14 am

I got it myself as well yesterday. The price is just too good to resist and won't be able to afford ivory for another few months anyway. after playing around with it for about 15 minutes, i can say that i like it as well. good price.

jeffersoncasey · Post by **jeffersoncasey** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 1:43 pm

bnz wrote:I got it myself as well yesterday. The price is just too good to resist and won't be able to afford ivory for another few months anyway. after playing around with it for about 15 minutes, i can say that i like it as well. good price.

Trust me. You'll wish USB team sample a Yamaha, Bachstein, Bosendorfer or whatever in the future instead of getting the Ivory if you have a chance to try it.

I don't like Ivory even right from the start. It just has that kind of funny honky mids and lack of low end thump. Although playability is excellent and very flexible with many settings.

koolkeys · Post by **koolkeys** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 12:17 am

A little late to the party here, but congrats on the release! I think this will be a big success for you guys. That reminds me, I need to download the latest version! I'm still on a beta!

Brent

bnz · Post by **bnz** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 5:11 pm

lol, i accidentally unclicked the streaming button for the acoustic piano. i'm happy that it made only my cubase 4 crash and not my whole system, but wouldn't it be useful to make a sanity check before allowing such an action for a 2,5gb instrument? sure it's not entirely out of the question with the ram sizes nowadays, i still think that probably nobody wants to load such a huge instrument into ram completely...

Jake Jackson · Post by **Jake Jackson** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 7:11 pm

I'd like to learn more about this piano--is it recorded by the same person who created the Plugsounds volume one pianos, or better still, does it use more samples from the same recording session? The larger pianos in this collection are some of my favorites. I once posted an mp3 using one of them on Northern Sounds, back when NS let us post recordings, and was accused of having recorded a real piano instead of using samples.

My impression is that whoever recorded these samples took a different micing approach from the one taken by many multisample creators--the mics seem closer to the left side of the piano, so there's more thump, and more of the reverberations of the thump. (By the way, who was the engineer for the original Plugsounds pianos?)

AlainJ UVI · Post by **AlainJ UVI** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:56 pm

Jake Jackson wrote:I'd like to learn more about this piano--is it recorded by the same person who created the Plugsounds volume one pianos, or better still, does it use more samples from the same recording session? The larger pianos in this collection are some of my favorites. I once posted an mp3 using one of them on Northern Sounds, back when NS let us post recordings, and was accused of having recorded a real piano instead of using samples.

My impression is that whoever recorded these samples took a different micing approach from the one taken by many multisample creators--the mics seem closer to the left side of the piano, so there's more thump, and more of the reverberations of the thump. (By the way, who was the engineer for the original Plugsounds pianos?)

Hello Jake,

This piano was recorded with the same philosphy (same producer: us

), but not with the same engineer and not the same conditions (studio, gear, microphones...)

bnz · Post by **bnz** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 12:47 pm

just listened to the new brass riffs. sounds awesome. but riffs are almost always not flexible enough for me. if i had a wish for a new uvi product it would be brasses (for soul/funk) that aren't loops, but properly programmable. i haven't really found a good brass product at the right price...the chris hein demos don't convince me unfortunately...

otristan · Post by **otristan** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 2:12 pm

bnz wrote:just listened to the new brass riffs. sounds awesome. but riffs are almost always not flexible enough for me. if i had a wish for a new uvi product it would be brasses (for soul/funk) that aren't loops, but properly programmable. i haven't really found a good brass product at the right price...the chris hein demos don't convince me unfortunately...

Personally, I dig old 60's 70's soul/funk sounds.
So this is the kind of products I would like to do someday.

Still for convincing brass sounds, you need to know how to program those.
If we do a product, I think it would be something more high level than just a sample library.

One day

bnz · Post by **bnz** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 2:45 pm

indeed, but proper brass programming is something you can learn to do when the right material. i think the current problem is that there is simply no library which is really well done. the chris hein sounds (which is arguably the best programmable brass product currently available i guess) lack the drive that i expect for such sounds. either these guys don't know how to use their own library or it just isn't good...lol...

makk · Post by **makk** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:28 am

otristan wrote:
makk wrote:I sound like DelayTime "1/4" is the same as DelayTime "1/2".
It happens any kind of DELAY.
Would somebody test about it?
This should have been fixed in the now available 1.0.12 at least if this was happening in the Analog Tape Delay.

Thanks, otristan.
I tested 1.0.12, but this problem has not been improved yet.
It happends in all delay type.

1/32(dot,tri) => 1/16(dot,tri)
1/4(dot,tri) => 1/2(dot,tri)

Depends on the processor by any chance?
I use Athron64 X2 4400+.

Obsolete187521 · Post by **Obsolete187521** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:48 am

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otristan · Post by **otristan** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:09 pm

makk wrote:
otristan wrote:
makk wrote:I sound like DelayTime "1/4" is the same as DelayTime "1/2".
It happens any kind of DELAY.
Would somebody test about it?
This should have been fixed in the now available 1.0.12 at least if this was happening in the Analog Tape Delay.
Thanks, otristan.
I tested 1.0.12, but this problem has not been improved yet.
It happends in all delay type.

1/32(dot,tri) => 1/16(dot,tri)
1/4(dot,tri) => 1/2(dot,tri)

Depends on the processor by any chance?
I use Athron64 X2 4400+.

Now fixed. Happened all the time(not CPU related)
I wonder how you are the first one to spot this. Good catch

the fix will be there in the next release.

Thanks for the report.

UVI Workstation (release)