Diva teaser at U-He website

[dusted william]

Two LFOs, two FX boards in series with a selection of nice effects.

ASAP

dw

[FarleyCZ]

2 Urs: I heard that Lennard, inventor of Sylenth, made or optimised some of it's code in Assembler. I know it's pain, I had the "pleasure" of meeting this language on highschool, one can lost some hair over it by anger, but it could be cool cure if Diva's gonna get too CPU heavy. (In case you're not already doing that regularly.) I guess it can get rid off some "higher programing language code layers" out of your way to CPU power.

[xh3rv]

Not much is available yet. I didn't want to post preliminary screenshots nor did I want to post audio material before things are tweaked to perfection.

The last time someone leaked dinosaur emulation before it was really ready:

[EvilDragon]

2 Urs: I heard that Lennard, inventor of Sylenth, made or optimised some of it's code in Assembler. I know it's pain, I had the "pleasure" of meeting this language on highschool, one can lost some hair over it by anger, but it could be cool cure if Diva's gonna get too CPU heavy. (In case you're not already doing that regularly.) I guess it can get rid off some "higher programing language code layers" out of your way to CPU power.

That's a good idea. Not a lot of plugin vendors do that today. It's really a chore! ASM is not for sane people!

[Urs]

We do sse intrinsics and profile the code on assembly level. Believe me, there's not much to be squeezed out

[bmrzycki]

We do sse intrinsics and profile the code on assembly level. Believe me, there's not much to be squeezed out

Have you thought about using the Marketing optimizer? I'm sure you could get about 200% more out of your code in the form of glossy videos and costly trade show expense reports.

[hakey]

She provides more or less complete models of four classic analogue synths

Reading this thread it looks like that's the Minimoog, MS20 and 2 Roland models? Did the Maxikorg not make it in there?

Any thoughts on adding extra models in the future?

two FX boards in series with a selection of nice effects

One of which is a Leslie simulator? Not an effect I'd ever associated with synths - have I lived a sheltered life?

[Urs]

She provides more or less complete models of four classic analogue synths

Reading this thread it looks like that's the Minimoog, MS20 and 2 Roland models? Did the Maxikorg not make it in there?

It's a bit more complicated than that... we've added the Little Phatty's wave morphing capability to the "Triple Osc" as we call it, we have switches to let the OTA based ladder filter sound like that of Jupiter 8 or Juno 60 respectively, we extended our DCO model with the waveform generation found in the alpha Junos, but kept the 60ish tuning, and we dismissed the alpha Juno State Variable filter tuning in favour of the Jupiter 6' settings, but then we kept the alpha Juno'S highpass filter mechanism for its bass boost. So we basically cannibalised 8 analogue synths to verify that we have correct models of certain parts that we liked. We however ditched stuff that we didn't think was great enough, so no MS-20-like envelopes etc.

The Maxikorg with its parallel filters prove to be a bit out of the scope for now, but we're considering things... we did get close results from our MS-20 Rev 1 filter model though... (which is going to be switchable between Rev1 and Rev2)

Any thoughts on adding extra models in the future?

Sure, if anything pops up... I think some Oberheim models would be nice, but the OBXa I've been after for a year hasn't arrived yet.

two FX boards in series with a selection of nice effects

One of which is a Leslie simulator? Not an effect I'd ever associated with synths. Have I lived a sheltered life or something?

I always loved the Rotary speaker of the Ensoniq EPS 16+. We currently have Chorus/Ensemble, Phaser/Flanger, LCR-Delay, Plate reverb and Rotary. We might add more too, maybe even before release...

Urs

[twolegstoneworks]

Urs, you've mentioned earlier that some of the filter-models would find their way into Zebra, but what about the effects, you're including in Diva? Will they find their way into the Uhbiks by chance?

Best,
- Torben

[Urs]

Urs, you've mentioned earlier that some of the filter-models would find their way into Zebra, but what about the effects, you're including in Diva? Will they find their way into the Uhbiks by chance?

Well, I am for sure considering to add that small stone alike phaser to Uhbik-P, and I'm toying with the idea of a Rotary Uhbik and even a dedicated chorus unit.

The filters will probably become a new model for the XMF and a whole new module with a multimode filter in Zebra. We won't copy them exactly, we'll rather keep them more tweakable. We'll see

[hakey]

Thanks for the detailed reply Urs. That all sounds very interesting.

One more quick question - how long before CPU speeds catch up with DIVA? I'm thinking about the ability to play 8 voice polyphony in good quality without breaking a sweat.

[twolegstoneworks]

Thanks for the detailed reply Urs. That all sounds very interesting.

One more quick question - how long before CPU speeds catch up with DIVA? I'm thinking about the ability to play 8 voice polyphony in good quality without breaking a sweat.

Possibly before 2050, but until then there's always offline rendering

[twolegstoneworks]

Urs, you've mentioned earlier that some of the filter-models would find their way into Zebra, but what about the effects, you're including in Diva? Will they find their way into the Uhbiks by chance?

Well, I am for sure considering to add that small stone alike phaser to Uhbik-P, and I'm toying with the idea of a Rotary Uhbik and even a dedicated chorus unit.

The filters will probably become a new model for the XMF and a whole new module with a multimode filter in Zebra. We won't copy them exactly, we'll rather keep them more tweakable. We'll see

Excellent! (will get Diva anyway though)

[hakey]

And one last(!) quick one,

The Maxikorg with its parallel filters prove to be a bit out of the scope for now, but we're considering things... we did get close results from our MS-20 Rev 1 filter model though

am I right in thinking that the Maxi is basically two monosynths running in parallel? Any chance of dual mode in DIVA that works somewhat along those lines?

[hakey]

Thanks for the detailed reply Urs. That all sounds very interesting.

One more quick question - how long before CPU speeds catch up with DIVA? I'm thinking about the ability to play 8 voice polyphony in good quality without breaking a sweat.

Possibly before 2050, but until then there's always offline rendering