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GeorgeZ · Post by **GeorgeZ** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 7:31 am

That's heaps better than what it was! Can't wait to try it out!

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 8:17 am

GeorgeZ wrote:That's heaps better than what it was! Can't wait to try it out!

Thanks George! This time hopefuly we'll nail it down for good

S-N-S · Post by **S-N-S** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 8:46 am

thats awesome bulent

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 8:49 am

Maybe I should just create a "spin-off" product and sell that as an FX plugin

Beno. · Post by **Beno.** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:13 am

HAY!!!!

i only went for a poo!!

i come back & all sorts of things are happening here?

lol

Re-verb sample sounds good!!!

Ben

GeorgeZ · Post by **GeorgeZ** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:45 am

long poo..2 months??

S-N-S · Post by **S-N-S** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:47 am

looking forward to the chorus

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 10:52 am

S-N-S wrote:looking forward to the chorus

Coming up this week!

Beno. · Post by **Beno.** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 12:11 pm

GeorgeZ wrote:long poo..2 months??

yep

i feel 123 pound lighter!

all jokes aside

Great Synth, Great Price & Great Developer!

& the updates look even Greater

the development GUI on the other hand not so great

but the default GUI in the current release is Great!!

Ben

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 1:45 pm

Beno. wrote: the development GUI on the other hand not so great
Ben

Hi Ben!

Well, that's tolerable I guess, as the development GUI is just for prototyping

After it's mature enough it can get a face lift at the hands of a skilled designer

Bulent

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Mon May 17, 2010 11:30 am

Dear KVR community,

It's been a very busy 5 month period for us to work on our changes for SynthMaster 2.1! We have exciting new features in this release, and we are hoping those new features will place SynthMaster in the "ivy league" of software synthesizers

Last night, we have released the first alpha/development build of SynthMaster 2.1. This is a "debug" build, meaning that it runs really "slow". We are hoping to release a "release/production" build this week to fix this issue. Here's the download link for this build for our registered users:

http://www.kv331audio.com/DownloadFile. ... tabIndex=1

Make sure you extract the contents of this archive to a new folder, i.e. dont override the existing 2.0 installations.

So, WHAT'S NEW in 2.1?

1. Faster startup time.

2. Support for multisamples of single cycle waveforms: With this feature it will be very easy to load samples of analog synth oscillators into SynthMaster, and we have already replaced "default" saw/tri/sqr wavetables with multisamples taken from a monophonic analog synthesizer.

3. Support for global engine settings: Global engine quality, Global engine buffer size, Global "default" wavetables for "saw", "triangle" & "square" waveforms.

4. Reverb effect re-written: added Early & Late EQs, room size parameters.

5. Added 4/8/12/16 band Phaser effect to Layer FX

6. Added 1/2/3/4 stage Ensemble effect to Layer FX

7. Added user drawable distortion curve to filters. Distortion can be off, before, after or inside filters.

8. "Digital" filter algorithms re-written based on a famous hardware "V"A synth.

9. Added multimode/dual multimode/peaking filter types for both Digital & Analog algorithms.

10. Added continous slope parameter for analog filters.

11. Added modulation matrix which makes it easier to program sounds. Since this build is an alpha build, we are still adding features, features have no

12. Support for "named" colors in the GUI editor so that skins in different color schemes can be created easily.

13. Visual display for the 4/2 band EQs.

And WHAT ARE THE KNOWN ISSUES IN THIS BUILD?

1. As we wrote above, #1 build was a "Debug" build, therefore performance is "sloowwww"

2. When the current preset is changed from VST host application, the plugin window doesnt syncronize parameters.

3. 2.1 alpha is not %100 backwards compatible with 2.0 presets yet, we are still testing that compatibility. 2.1 beta will be compatible though.

4. Waveform dropdown & display controls on the UI display incorrect waveforms for "default" waveforms (i.e. Square displayed instead of Saw)

5. We still have plans to add more parameters to effects (time permitting) :

5.1 Stereo width for chorus, delay (echo), phaser and reverb effects
5.2 3 band damping control in the Delay feedback loop
5.3 Distortion selection in the Delay feedback loop
5.4 Pre/post 2 band EQ sections for Distortion effect
5.5 Distortion curve in Distortion effect
5.6 2 band EQ for Ensemble effect

6. FX version of SynthMaster is still not built.

7. GUI for 2.1 is still work in progress.

8. Preset development for 2.1 has not started yet.

Cheers!

The KV331 Audio Team

Timfonie · Post by **Timfonie** » Mon May 17, 2010 12:52 pm

Great! Thank you

I'll wait for the "release/production" build though.

S-N-S · Post by **S-N-S** » Mon May 17, 2010 2:09 pm

looks great,reallylooking forward to the non-debug version though

really awesome job Bulent

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Mon May 17, 2010 2:10 pm

S-N-S wrote:looks great,reallylooking forward to the non-debug version though

If it goes well, I'll release that tonight!

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Wed May 26, 2010 6:56 am

Hi everyone,

We just released our build #6 SynthMaster 2.1 Alpha

What's added since build #1 ?

1. Added VST (FX) version of SynthMaster 2.1

2. Added output volume parameter for Layers 1&2

3. Added context menus on the user interface: The context menu has menu items for:
3.1. Midi Learn (Assigning MIDI controllers to knobs)
3.2. Assign modulation sources/types for knobs.

4. Added 2 new input sources for the Vocoder: Layer 1 & Layer 2

5. Added a new category of oscillator: "Audio In". This oscillator simply outputs the audio input/sidechain that's fed into SynthMaster so that it could be passed through the filters, effects and modulated by modulators, LFOs, envelopes, etc...

6. Added "Room Size" parameter for the reverb effect

7. Added frequency display view for the 4 band EQ effect.

What's fixed since build #1 ?

8. Since build #2, our builds are Non-Debug (fully optimized).

9. When the current preset is changed from VST host application, the plugin window doesnt syncronize parameters.

10. 2.1 alpha is now %99 backwards compatible with 2.0 presets. We still have to edit the existing 2.0 presets to adjust reverb settings though, since we have a new reverb in 2.1!

11. "Inside" algorithm for "analog" filters doesnt work

12. Turning on Osc2 and turning off Osc1 causes noisy output

13. Turning on Phaser/EQ layer effects mute output

14. Turning off layer effects increases CPU usage (about %10 on 2.0 Ghz machine)

The latest alpha can be downloaded by our registered users from the following link:

http://www.synthmaster.com/DownloadFile ... tabIndex=1

Enjoy

Bulent

SynthMaster 2.5.0.27 VST/VSTi/AU for Win/Mac, Download and try the DEMO now on either platform!