Sonicprojects OP-X Pro II is out

[androidlove]

where is your god now?

seems a tad improved. where did i put my wallet?

[Peter999]

There are some first-class sounds in the default bank. I decided to look at the other banks and ran into a problem.

Under Live 8.2, the Load Bank button is not working for me. No dialog appears, and nothing visible happens outside of the button press animation. The Save Bank button does bring up a file dialog pointed to the correct directory.

Is the plugin looking for a specific relative path which may be missing on my system (since I reordered it a bit after installing )?

My plugin is licensed and is showing up as such.

We took the time trying to examine the described behaviour in depth, but were not able to recreate it, it's really strange. For us loading banks in Live 8.2 worked fine, in whatever constellations ever.

Since someone else too told us he has crashes in crowded sessions we did a stress test in Live 8.2 (newest demo version) runing 7 instances of OP-X PRO-II on a very medicore cheap office PC just using the crappy onboard soundcard with Asio4all drivers which has worked smoothly without any problems at all. So rather difficult to trace those things if not reproducable.

Here's a video of 7 Instances of OP-X PRO-II in Live 8.2. As you can see at the very beginning loading of banks works fine. Cpu load is about 34% (live cpu meter):

Video:


System specs:
$500 office PC (Core2duo 2,53)
Live 8.2 demo
Onboard soundcard
Asio4all drivers @ 512 samples

So not better that everyone's home pc

You can download the session here to check how it works on your system:
http://www.sonicprojects.ch/opxpro2/dem ... _Live8.zip

If you have any idea concerning the bank load button (e.g. if you have this problem too) please let us know; really curious to find out more about it

[Soundsmith_Kamachi]

Peter informed me I was the first user to upgrade

I thought I would be the first but it seems someone clicked even quicker

Great synth and very useful updates in it - will write a review after this weekend

[rexlapin]

Peter,
Picked up the VFX upgrade from the Reaktor version
last night. Lost several hours going through some
of the presets and I am very pleased! Thanks for
making this available to us Mac (and Reaktor) users.
Cheers,
Scott

[Peter999]

Thank you
It really works rather well, Rowan at SM Pro Audio has done an amazing job in improving the VFX software - OP-X PRO-II is not the easiest plugin to run in a wine environment

[Peter999]

OP-X PRO-II test session within Cubase 5, using 7 instances of OP-X PRO-II with sychronization to song tempo for arpeggios and sample&hold. CPU load is about 8% on the used machine.

Here's a demo video:


System specs:
Intel Core i7 920 @ 2,66 gHz
6gb Corsair Dominator
Windows 7 Professional 64bit
Steinberg Cubase 5.0.1
RME Hammerfal HDSP 9632 @ 256 samples

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[Peter999]

OP-X PRO-II test session in Ableton Live 8.2, using 7 instances of OP-X PRO-II with synchronization to song tempo for arpeggios and sample&hold.

Here's a demo video:


System specs:
Core2duo 2,53 gHz Office PC
Windows Vista Home Premium
Ableton Live 8.2
Onboard soundcard
Asio4all drivers @ 512 samples

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[Peter999]

OP-X PRO-II has been successfully tested in Protools 8 (Windows), with the Fxpansion VST-to-RTAS adapter (v.2.1.1) used to convert the synth to RTAS

All functions work well, including automation and loading and saving of banks and patches.

Here's a short demo video:


System specs:
Intel Core i7 920
Windows 7 Professional 64bit
Pro Tools M-Powered 8.0.4
M-Audio Delta 2496
Fxpansion VST to RTAS adapter 2.1.1

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[Peter999]

Support site for Protools 8 (PC) users added:
http://www.sonicprojects.ch/opxpro2/protools.html

[Dewdman42]

I will definitely be getting it. Only ahve to decide which one to get. I currently use OPX-pro on a mac using wine. It works fine that way. I'm not sure I wanna mess with that other stuff since i have wine asio all sorted out now. Plus I guess its a cheaper upgrade path. but I'm next in line...great sounding stuff...!!

[Examigan]

I was just wondering, has the OPX Player been updated so it can play the newer sounds?

[Peter999]

I was just wondering, has the OPX Player been updated so it can play the newer sounds?

OP-X PLAYER has not the same engine and features as OP-X PRO and OP-X PRO-II - it shares the engine with the standard OP-X; that's why it can't load or recreate the OP-X PRO-II sounds (not even OP-X PRO can)

But there's an upgrade path to OP-X PRO-II for OP-X PLAYER owners too, check the upgrade box on this site:

http://www.sonicprojects.ch/opxpro2/purchase.html


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[Peter999]

I will definitely be getting it. Only ahve to decide which one to get. I currently use OPX-pro on a mac using wine. It works fine that way. I'm not sure I wanna mess with that other stuff since i have wine asio all sorted out now. Plus I guess its a cheaper upgrade path. but I'm next in line...great sounding stuff...!!

If you want to use in your own wine then you have to get the integral (non vfx-only) version, since the vfx edition only will run in vfx

However the full version, also the upgrade, contains both the VSTi and the VFX version in one license - so you can just upgrade (the upgrade for OP-X Pro owners is just $35)

[Peter999]

@ Examigan:
OP-X PRO-II can't load OP-X PLAYER and OP-X banks, but all of thoase banks are included in converted format in the "Former OP-X PRO library" kit you can download for OP-X PRO-II here:
http://www.sonicprojects.ch/opxpro2/userarea.html

[Dewdman42]

However the full version, also the upgrade, contains both the VSTi and the VFX version in one license - so you can just upgrade (the upgrade for OP-X Pro owners is just $35)

Ah that's good to hear. I will do it today.