KVR Audio

tony tony chopper · Post by **tony tony chopper** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 11:20 am

Ah, it has something to do with the ramp setting. Every value with "xxms absolute" causes noise.

Found it, it's indeed high quality+ramping in absolute mode.
I normally don't advise to use absolute ramping, it's there because it's how it works in Harmless. Relative produces sharper transients, but in this case I admit it sounds nicer in absolute mode.
Until the next release you'll have to render it with HQ off (it doesn't make any audible difference anyway).

sempondr · Post by **sempondr** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 7:30 pm

Love this synth! The sound, the looks...
First VSTi ever that just clicks with me

Only wish they add .tun support at some point.

Yorrrrrr · Post by **Yorrrrrr** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:02 pm

It is a masterpiece.

highkoo · Post by **highkoo** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:20 pm

Each day my tense and weary fingers strain to reach out just a fraction of an inch more to find a tiny new outcropping to cling to on the abrasive and sunbleached surface of Harmor.

elipsis1 · Post by **elipsis1** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:30 pm

It is very nice indeed. I only want more presets now

tony tony chopper · Post by **tony tony chopper** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 1:53 am

Only wish they add .tun support at some point.

well you can drop Scala .scl files onto the GUI

elipsis1 · Post by **elipsis1** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 7:28 pm

Hey, I know this may not be the right thread, just wondering:

Any Harmor owners having trouble editing the ENV data in ableton live?

All I get is the stupid "+" that only scales the view?

tony tony chopper · Post by **tony tony chopper** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 7:31 pm

All I get is the stupid "+" that only scales the view?

you should also be seeing a checkbox blinking, it says "freeze"

elipsis1 · Post by **elipsis1** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 7:34 pm

Nevermind... found it... it was the "freeze" tick box underneath

elipsis1 · Post by **elipsis1** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 7:49 pm

Sheesh this plugin is wicked

My ears haven't heard stuff like this before

Awesome job to image-line / gol

5/5!

deleted · Post by **deleted** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 11:38 pm

tony tony chopper · Post by **tony tony chopper** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 6:29 am

1. Enables the user to specify the Reference Frequency of the microtuning.

2. Enables the user to specify the MIDI note on which the 1/1 of the microtuning will be placed.

2. isn't important, because you can define this kb shift either in the synth itself or even in the sequencer.

For 1. I believe I picked middle C as the center, I don't quite remember. I was too surprised there were no base freq in those files, but I never quite understood the whole point of microtuning anway. Microtuning at a sequencer level, why not, but at a plugin level?

That format is also quite a mess, for something that's normally very simple.
Since it's importing in normal envelopes btw, we've been thinking of either allowing scripting on those envelopes, or allow import from XML files (or publish our FNV file format), so that external tools can generate precise envelopes.

But still, in the big archive of 4000 scales on the scala website, there isn't any .KBM file.

deleted · Post by **deleted** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:53 am

sempondr · Post by **sempondr** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 11:17 am

Sidulacra, here's a quote from the manual:
"Scalar files are supported, drop .scl files onto Harmor. .scl Scala tuning file: imports the tuning file into the pitch envelope. There is also a "just intonation" pitch kb mapping that can be loaded."
http://flstudio.image-line.com/help/htm ... Harmor.htm
You can try demo to confirm.
BTW, while I completely agree with you, I prefer .tun format over .scl+keymapping combo by far (I rarely change tuning).
Thanks to tony tony chopper for the tip - I should've RTFM...

tony tony chopper · Post by **tony tony chopper** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 5:13 pm

Surely your intention was to say that it isn't important to your music,

no, I meant that it's not important because you can transpose manually, either in Harmor itself or possibly in your sequencer. I mean you don't need to read a file to transpose the base note.

The base freq in Hz is in fact hackable in Harmor as well, but it would be much more complex. So yes it's a "problem".

About .tun vs .scl, we hesitated, & picked scl as we didn't know what was best.

Image-Line Harmor released