KVR Audio

Examigan · Post by **Examigan** » Sat May 14, 2016 9:34 pm

z.prime wrote:
Examigan wrote:... support for Windows 7 lasts until January 14, 2020

I don't care too much about Windows 7 myself, as I have 8.1 and I figure I will buy a new PC when its support is about to die anyway. It will have whatever the newest OS is at that point.

DruMunkey · Post by **DruMunkey** » Sat May 14, 2016 10:05 pm

flipm1967 wrote:So working on my first submission for quite a while (a year?)! As everyone says - getting kicks and snares - not easy! Got a kick now anyway.....

Now to the point:

Anyone had these problems with Podolski under Reaper Windows 10 64 bit?

1) stuck notes - This may be a midi thing - maybe I'm losing a note off somewhere but it always is the same channel and always the same pitch. Seems to be when I interrupt playback. Seem to recall having this before with reaper....

2) Clicks - I've found if a note finishes exactly when another one starts I can get clicks? To get rid of the clicks I have to shorten the earlier note a smidge...

I've run into both of these issues with the same setup you have. Granted, my stuff is all live performance and I'm doing some on-the-fly transpositions... I figured that was the culprit... And the clicks etc. I wrote off to the fact that I'm doing a massive amount of parameter modulations on most of my instances... But if you're seeing the same issues, maybe it's not what I was thinking it was... Oh well... It's all free, so I'm not gonna complain too much!

z.prime · Post by **z.prime** » Sun May 15, 2016 4:55 am

DruMunkey wrote:... doing a massive amount of parameter modulations on most of my instances...

By this you mean just using the automation capabilities in the synth or using automation? (If the latter, I'm curious what would be considered 'massive').

Ah_Dziz · Post by **Ah_Dziz** » Sun May 15, 2016 5:44 am

You guys wanna do an osc with the Repro alpha? I could have some fun with that. I haven't done one of these in a while.

ATN69 · Post by **ATN69** » Sun May 15, 2016 6:11 am

Repro alpha would be fun once it is ready. As for now the CPU consumption is too high because it is not optimized yet. It's a mono synth so it would take many instances of Repro to make a song. I tried already and reached something like 4 or 5 instances before my CPU went to 100%. I use i7 3.0GHz with 8Gb RAM and a Focusrite 2i2. But when Urs is finished with it I am sure it will be a lovely synth with a decent CPU consumptions.

Ah_Dziz · Post by **Ah_Dziz** » Sun May 15, 2016 6:19 am

I made a little diddy with it the other day. The CPU didn't seem like a problem. Freezing is always an option too. The alpha isn't gonna get optimized from what I've read. They are working towards a commercial release and the alpha was just for testing their filter modeling. I've done OSCs with plugins that crashed all the time so one with wacky CPU usage should be workable. I dunno. It's been fun to play with anyway.

z.prime · Post by **z.prime** » Sun May 15, 2016 6:37 am

@Ah_Dizz general discussion thread would be ideal for this (and it's been mentioned... as of now, the CPU is a serious issue): http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 8#p6431278

Darksynth FX · Post by **Darksynth FX** » Sun May 15, 2016 7:13 am

Hello all, a question concerning the use of effects (sorry if this has been answered before): Can I use the built-in DAW effects (for example the Ableton EQ, Compressor etc.)? Not sure because this part of the rules:

The effects must be easily available freeware 3rd party effects. This does not include plug-in betas, demos, magware or freeware that has expired, unless a special exception is made that month.

Mushy Mushy · Post by **Mushy Mushy** » Sun May 15, 2016 7:20 am

Darksynth FX wrote:Hello all, a question concerning the use of effects (sorry if this has been answered before): Can I use the built-in DAW effects (for example the Ableton EQ, Compressor etc.)? Not sure because this part of the rules:

The effects must be easily available freeware 3rd party effects. This does not include plug-in betas, demos, magware or freeware that has expired, unless a special exception is made that month.

"Most Native DAW effects may be used"

Laxplanet · Post by **Laxplanet** » Sun May 15, 2016 7:26 am

flipm1967 wrote:So working on my first submission for quite a while (a year?)! As everyone says - getting kicks and snares - not easy! Got a kick now anyway.....

Now to the point:

Anyone had these problems with Podolski under Reaper Windows 10 64 bit?

1) stuck notes - This may be a midi thing - maybe I'm losing a note off somewhere but it always is the same channel and always the same pitch. Seems to be when I interrupt playback. Seem to recall having this before with reaper....

2) Clicks - I've found if a note finishes exactly when another one starts I can get clicks? To get rid of the clicks I have to shorten the earlier note a smidge...

I had the same problems with clicks in Ableton on windows 10 I didn't experience any hanging notes. Another thing I did notice though is if you select velocity as a modulation source for the master out it does not seem to work. meaning if you want your kicks to respond to velocity you have to use the dedicated control for the adsr and then any envelope mod of pitch or cutoff responds the same amount as volume.

Laxplanet · Post by **Laxplanet** » Sun May 15, 2016 8:18 am

https://soundcloud.com/laxplanet/laxplanet-ipcress

Ok, so I got an entry in this time. My first one

DAW- Ableton Live 9 (Windows 10)
Plugins used
27 U-he Podolski
29 Melda Productions EQ (Free version)
07 Ableton Glue compressor
06 VOS Boot MK2
06 TDR Kotelnikov
03 Limiter 6
01 Voxengo oldschool verb
01 TDR Nova

Kurczok · Post by **Kurczok** » Sun May 15, 2016 11:18 am

https://soundcloud.com/permanentbeatz/k ... black-iris

=> DAW: Maschine
=> 8 Instances of Podolski
=> Effects: 3 Compressors, 2 Limiters, 1 Reverb - All Native Maschine Effects

This is my first OSC entry and I hope it's not that horrible

reiswolf · Post by **reiswolf** » Sun May 15, 2016 1:53 pm

Hi KVR Forum,

This is my first entry.

https://soundcloud.com/reiswolf/reiswol ... -challenge

The track was made in Ableton 9.6.1 . It uses 12 instances of Podolski. Bass, Kick, Snare and some of the pad layers use EQ-8 for a better mix. Kick uses erosion and saturation. Snare uses overdrive and saturation. All subtle. The kick is ducking the other synth except the snare using a compressor and the whole group uses a glue compressor. Again all subtle. There is one send effect, which is a reverb used on the drums. On the master there is a saturation for soft clipping and a limiter to gain around 5db.

Have fun!

z.prime · Post by **z.prime** » Sun May 15, 2016 2:40 pm

reiswolf wrote:... erosion ...

Oh man, one of the few things I miss from Live after switching to Bitwig!

reiswolf · Post by **reiswolf** » Sun May 15, 2016 3:10 pm

> Oh man, one of the few things I miss from Live after switching to Bitwig!

Since 9.5 a lot of good things happened. The e.g. filters are so good. Nice song z.prime, love your snare!

One Synth Challenge #87: Podolski by U-he (Jasinski Wins!)