KVR Audio

Mike777 · Post by **Mike777** » Sat Dec 05, 2015 10:23 pm

Meakaale wrote:
Dee.P.Tree wrote:
Taron wrote:Uhm...I haven't read through all the comments, but I can't get this thing to work properly at all. Even under 32bit, loading the fxb preset bank won't play a single sound.
For me too... I'm with 32bit fl studio. Any help..?

You can import the FXB and export each FXP and then import these in an instance of the synth that works.

In the import/open box it doesn't recognize .fxb, file does not show. It only wants a .fxp file. So I filtered 'all files' and then imported the .fxb and it hung the synth and almost the pc, had to kill the daw. What did I do wrong?

H-man · Post by **H-man** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 1:16 am

Mike777 wrote:
Meakaale wrote:
Dee.P.Tree wrote:
Taron wrote:Uhm...I haven't read through all the comments, but I can't get this thing to work properly at all. Even under 32bit, loading the fxb preset bank won't play a single sound.
For me too... I'm with 32bit fl studio. Any help..?

You can import the FXB and export each FXP and then import these in an instance of the synth that works.
In the import/open box it doesn't recognize .fxb, file does not show. It only wants a .fxp file. So I filtered 'all files' and then imported the .fxb and it hung the synth and almost the pc, had to kill the daw. What did I do wrong?

There are two import buttons, one for fxp and one for fxb. Check on the far right.

Mike777 · Post by **Mike777** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:03 am

yep figured it out, thx. use import next to name/channel section for fxp only.

ere2learn · Post by **ere2learn** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 11:26 am

Thanks for the reaper stuff sfiks & Eauson,will try it out tonight

lolilol1975 · Post by **lolilol1975** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 4:47 pm

OK, don't know how to delete a post here...

Mike777 · Post by **Mike777** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 7:14 pm

can we rewrite/remix a piece we've written before?

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 8:21 pm

Mike777 wrote:can we rewrite/remix a piece we've written before?

Each piece has to be original. No reworked works.

Already asked this.

mehum · Post by **mehum** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 9:01 pm

On the other hand at least two participants make reworks of their own pieces openly on a regular basis so I'd say that rule is not very heavily enforced

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 9:06 pm

mehum wrote:On the other hand at least two participants make reworks of their own pieces openly on a regular basis so I'd say that rule is not very heavily enforced

Are you referring to that Mindwalk thing part 3492 or something?

mehum · Post by **mehum** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 9:12 pm

Partly, but who is not really important... The rules are firstmost enforced by us in the community and I don't think anybody would mind a rework.

Mike777 · Post by **Mike777** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 9:19 pm

seems unclear, and really never enforced. But since its already happened many times, I think fairness suggests allowing others who have not, but wanted to. Reworking a piece is easier then starting from scratch.

If this rule is revoked, I think a good condition is it can only be a piece never used in OSC before, and can only be used once. imo

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 9:21 pm

mehum wrote:Partly, but who is not really important... The rules are firstmost enforced by us in the community and I don't think anybody would mind a rework.

Well, all I know is I asked BJ if I could do one of my old songs that I wrote like 30 years ago (something nobody has ever heard) and he said no. All songs have to be original. This is part of the reason this contest is so hard for me. I've written thousands of songs since 1979. I start to do something and my brain goes "Damn, that's from..." and I scrap it.

Coming up with original music after 36 years is damn hard.

bjporter · Post by **bjporter** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 9:56 pm

Use your best judgement. A lot of melodies can sound similar, but not necessarily. Chord progressions are repeated constantly.

Did you know every top 5 OSC song used the 4 chords pattern?

jk

As for enforcement, yes it is, but it hasn't really come up. We have hundreds of hours of music, so this will have to be a community enforced thing... unless... someone wants to write a script that analyzes each song against each other using a spiffy algorithm

. If there's concern, definitely PM me.

mehum · Post by **mehum** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 11:56 pm

Oh, I can share the source code of a method I use to analyze wether a piece of music is truly original or not. It's C# but can probably be ported to other languages by a decent programmer.
Basically it takes a byte array containing the music and determines wether it's original using some pretty advanced algorithm. Won't go into the details, if you're good at reading code you might be able to follow. If not, believe me, this works to 100%.

bool IsMusicOriginal(byte[] music)
{
return false;
}

zendorf · Post by **zendorf** » Tue Dec 08, 2015 4:05 am

I was reluctant to try out this synth after reading some of the technical issues people were having on here. Nonetheless, I downloaded and persevered with its quirky interface.

Damn, it is a bitch to program, but is definitely very capable and flexible. Very impressed with some of its' unique features such as the plucked string osc and the speech capability and I am having fun creating some patches that I am using for my track using these features

Having the possibility of 8 separate oscillators is pretty wild, as well as using the super-osc in each of these can lead to interesting results. Certainly is a unique synth , but let down by it's overall design.

A bit of advice for anyone using the preset banks in Reaper. If you find a patch that you want to use then export it as an fxp file and then re-import into a clean instance of the Br808. I found out the hard way, as I had used a couple of presets as a starting point and as I was well into my composition, discovered that Reaper was freezing and that the project filesize had ballooned to 100mb! Not sure why, but after exporting out fxps and re-importing, my project file is back down to 300kb or so.

One Synth Challenge #82: BR808 (Zendorf Wins!)