It's out, beta testing closed - will move back to normal Diva thread.
This one *will* go official in an hour. Please check it out and send email asap if anything is totally wrong...
http://www.u-he.com/downloads/Diva/Diva11Mac.zip
http://www.u-he.com/downloads/Diva/Diva11Win.zip
Rev. 674 aka. 1.1 (RC5)
- should be final
- added "!" to Treasure Trove!
- sorts image files in case they're mangled (aka Reaper LED bug)
Main changes and additions:
1. Multicore Support
Finally play as many voices as you like on selected systems! This needs multicore system with on-cpu-memory-interface like i5, i7, Nehalem.
2. up to 40% less CPU usage on expensive presets
We have improved the feedback prediction algorithim in the filters so dramatically that highly resonant patches will now use up to 40% less cpu than older versions. Can't get that sound any faster
3. Improved sound quality
You'll notice that Diva now sounds like a freshly refurbished analogue synthesizer. We've polished the attack transients and we've added a bit more shine to the VCO models. Even though these changes are subtle we recommend to render your current projects done with Diva before installing this beta.
Background: Actually, what happened is this... to improve the crossmodulation behaviour of the very early betas, we switched away from the widely used miniBLEPs, towards a version with more accurate phase response. A few people then noticed that Diva's release version sounded a tad duller than the beta. We fixed that now, so she got all the glamour of the beta back alongside the goodness that we added later
4. Revised User Guide
More info, more detail, more tutorials, more fun to read! (included in downloads)
Enjoy,
Urs & teamRev. 673
- fixed bug that could cause short drop outs (a ka clicks) in multithreaded mode
- fixed bug that could cause buffer overrun in KORE
- revised Note scheduling revised again and yet again
- No more crashes in Cubase64 when loading Diva as 32bit (mac)
- New parameter "Bipolar Noise" can be turned off to restore buggy DC-offsets in the oscillator noise from version 1.0.1
- Breath and Expression modulators work again
Rev. 657
- 50 more HS Presets
- Mr Wobble bank (in Diva's excellent third party section)
Rev. 655
- Better file error messages for windows (though still imperfect)
- Init-preset is correct in the presence of MIDI Banks
- No more crashes after long silence
Rev. 646
- no more unwanted legato mode after preset selection
- no more crashes after invalid file access
- AllNotesOff releases current notes instead of killing them
- log goes to Desktop\Diva.log on Mac and Win if file is present
- MIDI preset change no longer forgets modulator section
- "reveal in Finder" works for Carbon
Rev. 546-631 history
Performance:
- Multi-threaded operation allows to use multi-core capabilities
- Diva's filters are a lot faster in many cases
Sound:
- White-noise dc-offset removed
- Panning inverted to make it correct
- Triggered notes sound more coherent
- Sonic improvements (more harmonics, less noise in vcf and synced oscs)
- New feature "Transient Mode" allows to reset dc-blockers and filter states on attack
Usability:
- Completely new MIDI-learn mode
- Presets can be revealed in Finder (mac) or opened in Explorer (win)
- Presets are drag'n'dropable in Cocoa
Bugfix:
- Those deadlocks that some experienced on Windows are also gone (almost forgot
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