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fas1piano wrote:...also, GUIs are very nice, clear and functional. no silly hardware photos.
The visualisers in the center are also very nice to let you know what is going on in the synth at a glance, they are context sensitive and show accurate plots of oscillator shapes, lfo waveforms, filter responses, and envelopes. They also animate with the highest priority voice, so you can what is changing is a useful way.
fas1piano wrote:will you test with brainspawn forte? these things look like being made for live use! so it is important that they play well when patches are changed (sending vst data on scene change) and the like.
I am not in charge of testing, but hopefully someone at FXpansion can answer your question.
fas1piano wrote:also channel aware midi learn and program changes are useful for live players.
We will have an option "omni on/off" in a global options page, which will default to on.
fas1piano wrote:how about polyphonic aftertouch? do they react to that?
Polyphonic aftertouch is fully supported and can be automatically remapped to all the presets for you using our "Performance Controls". These appear in the mod system as Perf1 Perf2 PerfX and PerfY, can be mapped to midi ccs, pitch bend or aftertouch (both poly and channel get merged to a single poly source just called "aftertouch"), and also appear as the first four vst automation params. The entire mod system supports fully polyphonic modulation for all parameters, and includes per parameter and per voice per parameter random values.

I also have poly pitch bend support and will add in the future a mapping that allows 6 fixed voices to be allocated, and midi channels 1-6 notes and pitch bend to be remapped to voices 1-6 so that you can use guitar to midi converters to play the synth. This will not be in V1.0, but it will be in an update later on.

Andrew Simper
The Glue, The Drop, The Scream - www.cytomic.com

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Kriminal wrote:Q3. Will this pack work on what are now annoyingly called 'legacy' machines..ie non SSE2/3/4 cpu's (such as Athlon XP3000+, which has SSE, but not SSE2)
cheers
SSE2 is the minimum supported specification to run the synths, for both mac and win.

Andrew Simper
The Glue, The Drop, The Scream - www.cytomic.com

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thanks andrew, that sounds excellent! expecially the advanced polyAT implementation. yes, polyAT to pitchbend is a cool plan for the future!

by "channel aware midi learn" i mean a little more than switching off "omni mode". when you have midi learn for controls, e.g. right click and move fader on midi controller, not only midi CC should be learned but also the midi channel. this way you can map way more controls than 127.

as regards forte, i reckon the developers (mike at brainspawn) would supply you (i.e. fxpansion) with the software for testing the instruments.

fab

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andy_cytomic wrote:
Kriminal wrote:Q3. Will this pack work on what are now annoyingly called 'legacy' machines..ie non SSE2/3/4 cpu's (such as Athlon XP3000+, which has SSE, but not SSE2)
cheers
SSE2 is the minimum supported specification to run the synths, for both mac and win.

Andrew Simper
will there be any SSE3 SSE4/4.1 optimizations?

since i got my new processor i have been wondering what these new SSE's could offer me,

are these any good for DSP at all?

i started a thread about this in the dsp forum & got some interesting feedback,

:)

Subz

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I've just finished the Strobe drum demo:

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http://www.vellocet.com/SynthSquadAudio ... omated.mp3
NOTE: This audio is only for use by fxpansion to demonstrate the Synth Squad product, all rights reserved.
Artist: Andrew Simper (c) 2008 www.fxpansion.com
Description: One instance of Strobe with one voice only. Different sounds are generated via sequenced program changes mapped from a vst parameter.
Effects: Bus Compression.
==

Andrew Simper
The Glue, The Drop, The Scream - www.cytomic.com

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fas1piano wrote:by "channel aware midi learn" i mean a little more than switching off "omni mode". when you have midi learn for controls, e.g. right click and move fader on midi controller, not only midi CC should be learned but also the midi channel. this way you can map way more controls than 127.
Yes, if omni mode is not on then the same cc on different channels is treated as a different cc.

Andrew Simper
The Glue, The Drop, The Scream - www.cytomic.com

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djsubject wrote:will there be any SSE3 SSE4/4.1 optimizations?
No. There isn't really anything useful in there that will speed things up much more, but that doesn't mean your money is wasted on the new cpus, since the throughput of regular sse1 and sse2 instructions is way faster on them as well.

Andrew Simper
The Glue, The Drop, The Scream - www.cytomic.com

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andy_cytomic wrote:
djsubject wrote:will there be any SSE3 SSE4/4.1 optimizations?
No. There isn't really anything useful in there that will speed things up much more, but that doesn't mean your money is wasted on the new cpus, since the throughput of regular sse1 and sse2 instructions is way faster on them as well.

Andrew Simper
8) Thanks for the info! :)

The drum pattern rocked!!

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andy_cytomic wrote: Yes, if omni mode is not on then the same cc on different channels is treated as a different cc.

Andrew Simper
cool!

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Is anyone else finding following this thread slightly painful given that there is still some time until the release?!
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Nope

:hihi:

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andy_cytomic wrote:
Kriminal wrote:Q3. Will this pack work on what are now annoyingly called 'legacy' machines..ie non SSE2/3/4 cpu's (such as Athlon XP3000+, which has SSE, but not SSE2)
cheers
SSE2 is the minimum supported specification to run the synths, for both mac and win.

Andrew Simper
thats me out then....seems odd when when most devs still support older machines, some even offering 'special' non SSE2 versions.

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djsubject wrote:Nope

:hihi:
ENOUGH OF YOUR SMUG GLOATING!


:wink: :hihi:

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SWAN808 wrote:Is anyone else finding following this thread slightly painful given that there is still some time until the release?!
Exactly, I've wanted them even before this thread... I want to give FXpansion my money right now, but they don't seem to want it.
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SWAN808 wrote:
djsubject wrote:Nope

:hihi:
ENOUGH OF YOUR SMUG GLOATING!


:wink: :hihi:
:oops:

i'm not trying to rub it in but i honestly dreamed about this day!

i just cant get over the life that lives within these synths!

& then Fusor is just the honey glazed cherry ;)

Subz

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