It's been FAR too long, but our products are finally Mac 64 bit compatible! Poly-Ana and SCAMP both now support 6 platforms:
Windows VST 2.4 32 bit
Windows VST 2.4 64 bit
OSX VST 32 bit
OSX VST 64 bit
OSX AU 32 bit
OSX AU 64 bit
Here's Poly-Ana AU (x64) running in Ableton (x64)...
We've also been listening to your requests, have heard you, and responded. Many of you didn't like C/R (challenge/response) copy protection, and we get it. (It's a bit annoying at this end too, although I will miss hearing from the customers when they need new keys. We often have nice conversations in the process.) So no more of that! Our new copy protection system is now key-file based, and you can use your license key-file on any number of systems (that you yourself currently own). How's that?
Existing Poly-Ana and SCAMP license holders will be getting new keyfiles emailed out some time in the coming weeks. But if you want yours earlier just email us from the same email you used to make your purchase, and we'll send you your key-file right away.
Another new policy, Upgrade Protection. You will notice that even though we're still in version 1.x, the license keys are valid for version 2.x. This way you never need to worry that if you purchase it now, a new version might come out next week that you'd have to pay for again. (We know how annoying that is!) Now when you buy one of our products, you are covered for the current major version and the next major version!
As these are such major changes, particularly the GUI changes we needed to make to support x64 on OSX, we've put both products back into BETA. And as we always do, to encourage lots of testing and early-adoption, we've put both products on Half Price Sale during their BETA periods! That's $89.98 USD for Poly-Ana and $34.97 USD for SCAMP. (How long will the BETA last? We're not sure, but there will definitely be at least one more update of each product before we're done.)
Here's what's changed in 1.20: (Full Poly-Ana changes list is here. http://www.admiralquality.com/products/ ... hp#changes)
1.20 BETA 1 2014-07-16
- New keyfile based copyprotection system!
- New support for x64 (64 bit) AU! (OSX VST and AU now contain both 32 and 64 bit executable in the same package.)
- Internal processing is now always full 64 bit double precision in both 32 and 64 bit versions of the plugin, and whether connected to 32 or 64 bit audio paths. (Input and output samples are 64 bit on hosts that support 64 bit audio data.)
- Hold button now saved/restored with program/host project.
- EXPERIMENTAL: When hold button is down when the program or project is saved, the held keys are also saved in the program/project! We’re not entirely sure this is a good idea, but we’re going to try it. So let us know... 1. If it works. and 2. if it’s useful. We expect it will be most useful in PolyAnaFX (coming in a later 1.20 BETA release) for enabling audio passthrough without needing to sequence a key held down. (It may not always work however, as many hosts send MIDI “all notes off” on project load, as well as transport reset, which will instantly kill the held notes. Again, let us know what host you use and if it’s actually working and any use to you.) We are also aware that the held keys do not show on the virtual keyboard, when recalled. We’re working on that.
- Windows: New x86 (32 bit) compiler optimizations. CPU use improvement of around 5%.
- Quality setting changes no longer silence the currently playing voices. (Please torture test this for us!)
- Fixed: Oscillator Phase controls not getting saved and recalled correctly
- Fixed: Mod wheel not showing correct value when project first loaded
- Fixed: Crash when program change while editor closed
-Windows: Program select menu (click on the program number in the top left) is now in 4 columns for better fit. (Mac menus don’t support this but their scrolling behavior is at least a little faster.)
- Fixed: Oscillator Octave switches were acting as continuous controls instead of switches under MIDI control
- Fixed: "Coming soon" showing in Filter IN1 and IN2 button display and tooltip. Instrument version now shows which MIDI channel it is notetracking(set in Options Dialog) when activated. Cycle Assign display label is now “voice” instead of redundant “assign”
But that's not the end of it. We've got several more really cool new features that we're going to deploy in later updates in this BETA series. A few still need a bit more work before they're ready, and just for sanity's sake I wanted to get this out there and start testing without changing TOO much more than we already have. (We're also holding off on the effects version, Poly-AnaFX, and the preset player discount version, L'il Poly-Ana until later in the Beta. But don't worry, they're coming! Oh and yes, I know the custom background images are broken -- a result of all the new GUI code. It will be getting replaced in a later update as well, AND will have OSX support this time!)
Let's use this thread to discuss the BETA changes and post any bug reports. We are currently on Poly-Ana 1.20 BETA 5. We expect this to be the final update in the Beta and will be returning to regular pricing very soon.
Download Poly-Ana 1.20 BETA 5 here:
http://www.admiralquality.com/products/Poly-Ana/
SCAMP 1.30 BETA discussion thread is here (SCAMP Beta is now over):
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 6&t=414375
Just create that folder and it'll be fine. (There's virtually nowhere a plug-in has permissions to create a folder since this "sandboxing" madness happened.)
