KVR Audio

xiphiuz · Post by **xiphiuz** » Fri Oct 03, 2014 6:39 pm

Congratulations with this new version Andy! It was worth the wait!!!
The optimisations are awesome. Its so easy on the cpu, great you pulled that off.
The GUI is superb and the timing is splendid. I am so glad you released in on (thank god its) friday

I've go the whole weekend to play with this great tool/plugin!

btw: I think I hear that this new version is a lot smoother with the same settings and keeps the stereo information better in place/tact. Did you improve this behaviour?

If not, its something different, but its awesome.

Filter used:
MS2HD in the new 1.0.4 &
SallenKey MS2 in the 0.9.18 with same settings.

twolegstoneworks · Post by **twolegstoneworks** » Fri Oct 03, 2014 8:35 pm

Congratulations on the release! It's been well worth the wait.. sitting here with a big fat perverted smile on my face

first Bazille and now The Drop - within the same week.. that's almost too much

Kaboom75 · Post by **Kaboom75** » Fri Oct 03, 2014 8:48 pm

Not had much practice with it yet had to sleep. I put ACE synth on with the default preset left it at that then added The Drop and after some messing about with knobs and buttons ended up with a sound that sounded exactly like a Huey helicopter. A huey did a fly by at Blackpool airshow a couple of years ago. Really gob smacked that The Drop can do that sound and bass to such a basic waveform. Anyone heard a Huey in person knows what sound I'm talking about. I wish I had saved the preset now :/ I wish all my synths had that amount of control in the LFOs

masterhiggins · Post by **masterhiggins** » Fri Oct 03, 2014 9:12 pm

Kaboom75 wrote:Anyone heard a Huey in person knows what sound I'm talking about.

Probably the same number of people who know what an Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter sounds like.

-Sam

Endor-8o8 · Post by **Endor-8o8** » Fri Oct 03, 2014 9:32 pm

Authorized and ready to rock here ! (Win 8.1 64bit, Ableton Live 8.4.2, Reaper 4.731)
Thanks for this amazing piece of art, just love the new possibilities and congrats for
the beautiful GUI. Cheers !

AgiKvr · Post by **AgiKvr** » Fri Oct 03, 2014 10:50 pm

2 questions (sorry if I don't read 146 pages of posts):

1) Why it is still written the drop-beta- on the site??

2) Any price reduction for registered glue owner?

----many thanx Andy and...congratulations!!----

Kaboom75 · Post by **Kaboom75** » Fri Oct 03, 2014 11:00 pm

Probably because it's the first finished version for the masses to try.

Dip200 · Post by **Dip200** » Sat Oct 04, 2014 12:26 am

I made a test-project with the latest 0.9x Drop and set all knobs to 10 o'clock, hp + lp to Ms2 and 4 poles activated.

Not a single setting was recalled when I opened the project with the new plugin.

win7 64 Bit , Cubase 64 Bit 7.5.3

Other than that this update is huge. Awesome GUI, options and a huge drop in CPU usage. Congrats on this big effort.

nrosko · Post by **nrosko** » Sat Oct 04, 2014 12:48 am

Can't seem to trigger the env with midi if i load keys organ dirty grime preset then change the env input to midi. It doesn't except midi input. changing this back to a default preset & it works.

andy-cytomic · Post by **andy-cytomic** » Sat Oct 04, 2014 1:29 am

Dip200 wrote:I made a test-project with the latest 0.9x Drop and set all knobs to 10 o'clock, hp + lp to Ms2 and 4 poles activated.

Not a single setting was recalled when I opened the project with the new plugin.

win7 64 Bit , Cubase 64 Bit 7.5.3

Other than that this update is huge. Awesome GUI, options and a huge drop in CPU usage. Congrats on this big effort.

Great to hear you like the update! Thanks for the bug report. Can you please email me the project? Should be easily fixed www.cytomic.com/contact

andy-cytomic · Post by **andy-cytomic** » Sat Oct 04, 2014 1:33 am

AgiKvr wrote:2 questions (sorry if I don't read 146 pages of posts):

1) Why it is still written the drop-beta- on the site??

2) Any price reduction for registered glue owner?

----many thanx Andy and...congratulations!!----

1) It is a beta to show that it is a very new build that requires more "in the wild" testing before it is appropriate to use in a production setting where possibly lurking bugs could cause crashes. A production setting would be using it for a DJ set in front of tens of thousands of people, or in front of clients that are paying by the hour and any possibility of a crash is not acceptable. I am very happy with how solid it is, and once I fix bugs that have been reported, then release that build as a beta, then no more bugs are reported on that build for a few weeks, then I'll remove the beta tag. This is how it should be with all software so that customers are aware of the risks and can make appropriate choices.

2) Yes, there is a 30% discount which shows up at the final checkout page if you are logged in

andy-cytomic · Post by **andy-cytomic** » Sat Oct 04, 2014 1:36 am

toby wrote:In the original Drop there was a "Step Freq" option that I used often to do sudden automation changes with the cutoff. I can't seem to find this function on the new one - where did it go?

*** edit I think I found it - is it the off section above the "mode" ?

Yep, I've renamed this feature to "Glide", so you can either set the time to 0 mS or the mode to Off and the filter will jump without any smoothing - which is equivalent to the "Step Freq = on" option from the earlier version.

andy-cytomic · Post by **andy-cytomic** » Sat Oct 04, 2014 1:51 am

xiphiuz wrote:Congratulations with this new version Andy! It was worth the wait!!!
The optimisations are awesome. Its so easy on the cpu, great you pulled that off.
The GUI is superb and the timing is splendid. I am so glad you released in on (thank god its) friday
I've go the whole weekend to play with this great tool/plugin!

btw: I think I hear that this new version is a lot smoother with the same settings and keeps the stereo information better in place/tact. Did you improve this behaviour?

If not, its something different, but its awesome.

Filter used:
MS2HD in the new 1.0.4 &
SallenKey MS2 in the 0.9.18 with same settings.

There are some subtle changes in the drive levels, but yes overall it should sound slightly "more analog" ie smoother and handles large drive better. With my automated circuit solver I could more easily play around with how the equations are solved and generate a more stable and quicker to converge model. I also improved all the non-linear function approximations to be smoother as well as lower cpu. There is a phenomenal amount of tech under the hood of this beast in almost every part of the plugin!

andy-cytomic · Post by **andy-cytomic** » Sat Oct 04, 2014 2:00 am

N.30 wrote:*update* was a windows firewall issue(all good) Anyone else unable to Authorise after updating from v0.9.18? I'm getting 'challenge failed'

Thanks for the update. In case anyone missed it Neo said the auth was being blocked by the windows firewall, once he allowed The Drop to connect to the internet the authorisation worked fine. So hundreds of auths on not a single problem apart from when a firewall blocks the connection. I'll research into how best to handle firewalls in the future, hopefully I can detect this somehow and at least let the user know more useful information on how to work around the problem.

Rah · Post by **Rah** » Sat Oct 04, 2014 2:09 am

How about a simple footnote with the installer/auther to remind people to check?

I haven't installed the new version or tried to authorise it yet, so maybe that wouldn't be practical at all.

Cytomic "The Drop" Resonant Filter