Hive preview (April 1 update)

[Kaboom75]

Is WIP tab in the middle going to be the oscilloscope?
Does it use multiple cores? CPU is very low anyway but I like to know everything.

[JC_]

Been playing around for a couple of hours and I'm loving this! I'm seriously smiling right now. I'm also on board for more waveforms, but it sounds like you guys have that planned out.

Thanks for letting us play with this. Happy holidays!

[Urs]

Is WIP tab in the middle going to be the oscilloscope?

Maybe. Maybe not.

I think we're daring the experiment to not do a scope. Supersaws are really not as important to look at as e.g. phase distortion sweeps or results of audio rate modulation. Scopes make sense when bending waveforms is a key element. Hive however is a different kind of synth - more like Diva where we banned the scope into a rarely visible tab.

Does it use multiple cores? CPU is very low anyway but I like to know everything.

I don't think it needs to. Multicore support helps with very expensive processing, but it also costs a little CPU itself. I'm afraid that in Hive the trade offs might be higher than the gains. Well, if we do 32 voices or 64, we might render them in clusters on multiple cores. We'll see. It's too early to say.

[Kaboom75]

Thanks Urs I only use oscilloscops for eye candy really a freq analyser would be more useful to me but then again my DAW has one. Maybe there shouldn't be anything telling our eyes what our ears are recieving.
You know better than me leave it to you . I was thinking the same about multiple cores, I was looking for the MC button but was at the same time thinking why put it on, my cores are still in bed.

[con_sordino]

OMG, I literally shed a tear when I heard this:

installed a few minutes...have fun with a quick pluck-sequence:

mp3
https://app.box.com/s/sm8khpgxld55d9r1u7ho

preset
https://app.box.com/s/4zjqmzv7myk0kagqazy2

yes, i know that there is nothing special. sorry, i have no knowledge of how to program a synth. it was for fun

[Urs]

Well, as for frequency analyser… we would like to publish a combined oscilloscope and analyser with a few extremely handy functions some time next year. Kind of a sound designer's toolkit.

We have such a thing internally, but it needs to be polished.

[ZeePok]

 
Hello Urs,

Would you consider using a bigger font size in the 'Patches' section? (Also on Bazille)

My eyesight is not so perfect and trying to read the patch information is a bit straining.

Thanks for listening.

Z.

[exmatproton]

Been playing around for a couple of hours and I'm loving this! I'm seriously smiling right now. I'm also on board for more waveforms, but it sounds like you guys have that planned out.

Thanks for letting us play with this. Happy holidays!

+1 for more types of OSC.

[Urs]

 
Hello Urs,

Would you consider using a bigger font size in the 'Patches' section? (Also on Bazille)

My eyesight is not so perfect and trying to read the patch information is a bit straining.

Thanks for listening.

Z.

Basti has started working on a nofrills UI. I'm not sure if he wants to add larger fonts, but I think it's supposed to be small and tidy, so you could simply scale it to 150% or something.

Other than that, yeah, adding accessibility features would be a logical development.

[jfostermusicstudio]

Ok it is early in the morning but how do you get sound out of oscillator 2? I'm probably totally have a bonehead moment but...Thanks

[Urs]

Ok it is early in the morning but how do you get sound out of oscillator 2? I'm probably totally have a bonehead moment but...Thanks

Increase Osc2 Volume. Make sure any of the two filters has input from Osc2. Make sure that filter also has Volume lifted

[jfostermusicstudio]

Haha.....boneheadedness confirmed. Perhaps I need more coffee before operating soft synths. Thanks URS. Hive sounds great btw. Thanks for all of your hard work.

[jfostermusicstudio]

Haha.....boneheadedness confirmed. Perhaps I need more coffee before operating soft synths. Thanks URS. Hive sounds great btw. Thanks for all of your hard work.

Oh it was the volume on filter 2 that I had overlooked.

[martingifford]

I reckon the values like octaves should be click and drag rather than click and select, but might get used to it.

The central window is a bit blurry, IMO.

In Sylenth, each part has two oscillators so you could have it spread over 4 octaves, but Hive seems to only have two oscillators total, so a maximum of 2 octaves. I'm probably missing something.

Haven't sorted out the volumes yet. They seem to apply to detune and semitone, not the oscilator itself? Probably missing something again.

OMG, I literally shed a tear when I heard this:

installed a few minutes...have fun with a quick pluck-sequence:

mp3
https://app.box.com/s/sm8khpgxld55d9r1u7ho

preset
https://app.box.com/s/4zjqmzv7myk0kagqazy2

yes, i know that there is nothing special. sorry, i have no knowledge of how to program a synth. it was for fun

Con, that was a great patch! Loved it, hence the tear!

[LFO8]

pdxindy can you make me a preset with OSC phase options activated? i cant find it. at least i dont know how to set it.
seems like i need to make me a new init preset, the current one confuses me.

Click the little triangle at the top-left of a mod matrix slot and select 'Osc Phase Control'. Mod depth1 one will control the phase of Osc1 and Mod Depth2 will control the phase of Osc2.

Thanks for showing this. Had not found it yet myself.

Playing around with it some more, I'm not sure Hive really needs a factory preset library. Because it is so easy to get tweaking en get your own sounds. It's very inviting.

It's drawing you in like: "We are synth, you will be assimilated, resistance is futile"