The long DIVA thread

[pdxindy]

Thanks!

Well i just bought the Squad recently and then Tremor comes along and Diva sounds fantastic but i have no where near the cpu to use all of these in a project at the same time! Plus i like to spend quality time with new plugins before buying more!

It's definitely got that analog flavour, i think the ms20 filters sound better than the curtis filter on my mopho. It's so fat though! And the cpu isn't all that bad in draft mode and Diva still sounds good...

@pdxindy, when you say better do you mean more accurate or is it already there? I don't have first hand experience with the synths it emulates so i am trusting Urs!

I feel the same way about buying new stuff... I love the MS20 filters!! But then there is that Cascade 12db... wow that one is nice too...

It is already there. I just mean that Diva is likely to have a few extra goodies in the future!

[musikmachine]

Is it end of today cause I can't pull the trigger til later on. Hopefully it runs until midnight! The filters do sound so much better to my ears than when I first demoed it and some of the pads are so lush and full. Yeah I don't like to have too many instruments but I suppose it will see me through the year!

Normally I feel ok about passing on deals cause there are plenty of good options around but there is something special about diva.

[Urs]

No worries, I'll be asleep when the 15th ends in the West. I have to photoshop a 179 buy now button tomorrow morning inbetween paperwork and meetings, and then I might find time to upload that and change the figures... so I guess it won't be before 4 or 5 am of the 16th in California.

[Restless]

Thanks!

Well i just bought the Squad recently and then Tremor comes along and Diva sounds fantastic but i have no where near the cpu to use all of these in a project at the same time! Plus i like to spend quality time with new plugins before buying more!

It's definitely got that analog flavour, i think the ms20 filters sound better than the curtis filter on my mopho. It's so fat though! And the cpu isn't all that bad in draft mode and Diva still sounds good...

Sounds a lot like my situation, although my i7920 actually copes pretty well with Diva in divine mode. I can run 4 instances, so 1 per CPU core. I did overclock it slightly to 3.3 Ghz, trying to squeeze a few more notes out of it. I haven't done that for any synth before.

I also bought DCAM and actually spent a good few hours trying to make a lot of my soft synths, and also my Virus TI, sound like Diva and I could not come close.

Nothin I have comes close, and I have way too much stuff at this point.

[grymmjack]

Well i just bought the Squad recently and then Tremor comes along and Diva sounds fantastic but i have no where near the cpu to use all of these in a project at the same time!

That's what freeze and bounce are for.

What's your main host? Surely it has one or the other? I find that bouncing actually is a more productive way to work, piece by piece, as it forces me to actually COMMIT to a given path.

So much of my lack of productivity hinges on too much flexibility and not enough of a rigid path to a destination. Think about that a second it's confusing to say but it makes sense a little bit.

Of course if your CPU is older, DIVA is going to dominate it but if you bounce, you can still work it in until you upgrade that way.

[musikmachine]

No worries, I'll be asleep when the 15th ends in the West. I have to photoshop a 179 buy now button tomorrow morning inbetween paperwork and meetings, and then I might find time to upload that and change the figures... so I guess it won't be before 4 or 5 am of the 16th in California.

Awesome! So that's about midday GMT?

[Urs]

No worries, I'll be asleep when the 15th ends in the West. I have to photoshop a 179 buy now button tomorrow morning inbetween paperwork and meetings, and then I might find time to upload that and change the figures... so I guess it won't be before 4 or 5 am of the 16th in California.

Awesome! So that's about midday GMT?

Yep!

[musikmachine]

Thanks!

Well i just bought the Squad recently and then Tremor comes along and Diva sounds fantastic but i have no where near the cpu to use all of these in a project at the same time! Plus i like to spend quality time with new plugins before buying more!

It's definitely got that analog flavour, i think the ms20 filters sound better than the curtis filter on my mopho. It's so fat though! And the cpu isn't all that bad in draft mode and Diva still sounds good...

Sounds a lot like my situation, although my i7920 actually copes pretty well with Diva in divine mode. I can run 4 instances, so 1 per CPU core. I did overclock it slightly to 3.3 Ghz, trying to squeeze a few more notes out of it. I haven't done that for any synth before.

I also bought DCAM and actually spent a good few hours trying to make a lot of my soft synths, and also my Virus TI, sound like Diva and I could not come close.

Nothin I have comes close, and I have way too much stuff at this point.

It varies from patch to patch but anything polyphonic or stacked pretty much kills it realtime so it's be pretty much for bass and lead which i have the mopho for anyway. I was actually planning to upgrade the hardware next cause i can't really exploit what i have got. So Diva is snapping at the heels of the mighty virus?

[Urs]

v1.01 still has some problems under Cubase (32 bit v6.05/Win7x64). After a long time of being open (Say 24+ hours) I've noticed that the audio output still sometimes dies (as it did in previous versions), whilst other VST's (open for the same period of time) remain functioning fine.

Normally, since there's no audio, I usually just kill the instance. But I happened to switch to the scope, and I noticed it shows some odd things when you play a key whilst Diva is in this condition. Not sure if it offers any clues, but here's the screenshots of what the scope shows when this happens.. Btw otherwise, when this occurs, Diva appears to work normally (it even uses the CPU like it's still calculating the voices.. ) there's just no output.

That's really something

We'll get Clemens to look at this.

[TwoToneshuzz]

Well i just bought the Squad recently and then Tremor comes along and Diva sounds fantastic but i have no where near the cpu to use all of these in a project at the same time!

That's what freeze and bounce are for.

What's your main host? Surely it has one or the other? I find that bouncing actually is a more productive way to work, piece by piece, as it forces me to actually COMMIT to a given path.

So much of my lack of productivity hinges on too much flexibility and not enough of a rigid path to a destination. Think about that a second it's confusing to say but it makes sense a little bit.

Of course if your CPU is older, DIVA is going to dominate it but if you bounce, you can still work it in until you upgrade that way.

I am one who don't bounce nor freeze. I have some tricks up my sleeves, no that doesn't involve sleeze. Does my Cpu sneeze? I say excuse me if you please!

Just say no to too many voices at once.. Think solos or duos in turn combined with less CPU heavy plugs, I've set my host to turn my CPU hungry plugs on when they are recieving notes and off when they aren't. I also have a couple of hardware synths the Blofeld and the Wavestatio AD, that can fill out the arrangement. The Wavestation Ad is like 20 years old but if you run it through a few UHBIK's or other cool effects it still seems pretty cool. Also sampling and playing back phrases is a good idea.

Wade


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[Restless]

So Diva is snapping at the heels of the mighty virus?

Well, in what concerns VA emulation and filters, yes, I believe it is.

[Howard]

So Diva is snapping at the heels of the mighty virus?

Well, in what concerns VA emulation and filters, yes, I believe it is.

No it's not

[Restless]

So Diva is snapping at the heels of the mighty virus?

Well, in what concerns VA emulation and filters, yes, I believe it is.

No it's not

You're right. It is ahead of the virus.

[Ch00rD]

So Diva is snapping at the heels of the mighty virus?

Well, in what concerns VA emulation and filters, yes, I believe it is.

No it's not

Indeed... "snapping at the heels" would imply that Virus is still ahead of Diva. In terms of features, it is. But in terms of virtual analog, Diva is *way* better (imho - sitting behind a TI2 Polar).

Also, Diva seems to have much fewer bugs. (now if Access would just get their act together, walk over to U-he, and offer them a nice licensing deal... )

[Restless]

So Diva is snapping at the heels of the mighty virus?

Well, in what concerns VA emulation and filters, yes, I believe it is.

No it's not

Indeed... "snapping at the heels" would imply that Virus is still ahead of Diva. In terms of features, it is. But in terms of virtual analog, Diva is *way* better (imho - sitting behind a TI2 Polar).

Yes, I didn't take the time to actually think about the meaning of that expression. I have a Virus TI as well and I can not make it sound like Diva. The filters I think are the main difference.

Also, Diva seems to have much fewer bugs.

Yes, Diva can actually synch properly with the host....