satin range automatisation doesn't work

[loekazz]

Hello,

I just bought the Satin plugin a few days ago.

I wanted to automate some movements with the 'range' knob, but that doesn't seem to work. Other parameters from seemed to be recorded without problems. Maybe a bug?

DAW: Logic Pro X
OS: Yosemite

Greets,

L.

[u-he-michael]

Hi,
it is not a bug. Automating the range would lead to strange effects and mess with the overall delay scheme (since it's through-zero flanging). Should be noted in the manual.
Cheers,
Michael

[loekazz]

Hello Michael,

thanks for your reply!

Strange that there was decided not to make this possible. U-he thinks clearly more out of the box with the design of their plugins than some other plug-in designers do with similar products (tape effects, compressors,... all of them featuring mostly the same features as the hardware units they're modelled on).

These particular strange effects I just found very interesting on a specific part of my track, when I was moving around with this knob. It resulted in very nice, but ok also a little weird, pitch-shifting effects.

So, why not make this parameter to be able to automate too, even if this might not be an existing hardware feature?



L.

[sascha]

As Michael already pointed out, our decision is a technical one. It just doesn't work right with many hosts. The reason is latency compensation, especially what happens when the value gets changed on-the-fly or bypass gets pressed. We encountered so many strange effects - depending on platform and host - that we had to disable automation for this parameter entirely.

[loekazz]

Oh I'm sorry, I understood it wrong but now it's clear, thanks!