M4 Test Comments

[plutonia]

been having a play around with beta of v4 and have following comments:

initial impressions:
the synth sounds are really fantastic;this may well be the best synth i've ever heard. real depth and character to the sounds and lot of time and effort has gone in to programming them. noticed some complaiants about cpu load but i suspect that the high cpu hit is a result of the high quality of the synth sounds and number of modules/oscillators etc used to great such sonically rich synth patches. the effects are diverse and again very high quality and have only scratched the surface so far.....

issues:

1. mu lab using asio4all doesn't close down when use 'close' from 'session' menu. mu lab appears to shut down but if i open task manager i can see that mu lab is still running hence no sound from asio driver second time you load mu lab because driver still being used by first instance of mu lab. this happens if you close from 'session' menu and mu lab quits . if you 'quit' mu lab from 'mu lab' menu it's fine. thought it was just just my system cos i'm using built in soundcard on motherboard but tried on my netbook and same thing produced windows blue screen of death! also i'm not sure about usefulness of having different composition arrangments avaiable within sessions but haven't used it enough to reaslise where jo is coming from with this feature yet.


2. opening mu synth parameters to edit them (e.g oscillators etc) and midi keyboard cuts out and can't hear edits to sound until click on desktop again. sometimes works and sometimes you have to close modules you are working on to hear how edits are affecting sound and then reopen them again to continue edits.


3. the 'split' function should be destructive if required; for instance. i have a 4 bar loop. i only want i bar. i can't cut out 1 bar and copy it without the original notes from the other 3 bars appearing in the note editor. i'm mibbe missing some funtion here but this isn't something i can get on with. i realise this is same as v3 but any advice on the functionally of this would be appreciated.

4. i'm getting old and the quantise grid lines aren't dark enough for me to see unless i lean in closer to computer screen! time to see my optician.....

great upgrade jo;loads of new sounds/effects and functionailty. will keep testing and get back with any other issues or comments

[Nielzie]

Hi plutonia,

Please feel free to join us here in this thread where the MULAB 4 testers are gathered and having feedback with Jo about M4.

Your feedback is well appreciated. Could you post it perhaps there also so we can keep it in 1 place?

[MuTools]

Yes indeed, please post all M4 test feedback in the M4 Test topic.
Thanks for posting your feedback again in that M4 Test topic.
So i've locked this topic.