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himalaya · Post by **himalaya** » Tue May 08, 2018 9:05 am

Echoes in the Attic wrote:plus MPE

Which is great but....I wonder if there are any expression curves, or mod mappers, or anyway to scale the modulation applied to pressure and slide (CC74). Without such curves, it could become unmanageable pretty quickly, especially on the 'press' dimension.

Dasheesh · Post by **Dasheesh** » Tue May 08, 2018 9:11 am

Many questions answered. A couple of sound examples at the end.... etc.

Caine123 · Post by **Caine123** » Tue May 08, 2018 9:13 am

I dont like that the modulation is a different window. I like to modulate on the same window with granular synthesis :/

Echoes in the Attic · Post by **Echoes in the Attic** » Tue May 08, 2018 9:17 am

himalaya wrote:
Echoes in the Attic wrote:plus MPE
Which is great but....I wonder if there are any expression curves, or mod mappers, or anyway to scale the modulation applied to pressure and slide (CC74). Without such curves, it could become unmanageable pretty quickly, especially on the 'press' dimension.

That’s true. Without curves it is more basic but still usable. This is very rare still. Besides Roli/fxpansion stuff, I can only think of falcon and sektor that have curves.

himalaya · Post by **himalaya** » Tue May 08, 2018 9:33 am

The thing is, on a Seaboard it won't be usable without such curves, since even a light touch will trigger pressure. So it will be extremely difficult to play with any stronger velocity without triggering what is assigned to pressure! A curve simply allows to manage this. The Seaboard employs continuous pressure - it's not aftertouch - so curves are essential here, and in any MPE controller with continuous pressure, for that matter.

The same is with 'slide' (CC74), without curves any cyclic modulation assigned to slide may be triggered when you don't want to.

Neon Breath · Post by **Neon Breath** » Thu Jun 28, 2018 5:32 am

Released. With a demo available, strangely (for AD):
https://www.audiodamage.com/collections ... 046-quanta

AnX · Post by **AnX** » Thu Jun 28, 2018 5:36 am

Win 8.1 or newer.... strange. Im still on 7, so im out.

Now i feel like an XP evangelist

shonky · Post by **shonky** » Thu Jun 28, 2018 5:47 am

AnX wrote:Win 8.1 or newer.... strange. Im still on 7, so im out.

Now i feel like an XP evangelist

Still on 7 here but remember one of their freebies which was 8 or higher worked ok on 7 so may still be wort cecking the demo

Gosh · Post by **Gosh** » Thu Jun 28, 2018 6:10 am

AnX wrote:Win 8.1 or newer.... strange. Im still on 7, so im out.

Now i feel like an XP evangelist

i have a lot of ad plugins (instruments and fx) and all work absolutely fine on win7, so definitely worth to check the demo (i certainly will !!!)

morelia · Post by **morelia** » Thu Jun 28, 2018 6:40 am

Can't drag and drop a sample. What could be the prob. Running in Patchwork as admin

Delta Sign · Post by **Delta Sign** » Thu Jun 28, 2018 7:34 am

A crap there was already a thread about this. I guess I shouldn't have started a new one.

I posted a small demo and my first impressions after a few minutes with Quanta in the other thread, if anyone is interested:

I just downloaded the demo and checked it out! This is an amazing synth!

It's pretty awesome. The Interface is very Intuitive, I didn't have to look at the manual once to figure stuff out. It also looks really nice and scales without any artifacts.

Quanta basically does everything you could want from a granular synth, and quite a bit more. Turning a shitty vocal into a lush pad is absolutely no problem, mangling sounds beyond recognition is super easy and slicing and mangling loops works also really well, especially with the amazing envelopes.

There are also lots of other nice little features, like one-shot modes for the envelopes (why don't more synths have this feature?), very flexible and fun LFOs, plenty of modulation options and much more.

I made fun of the HYPER adjustable envelopes earlier, but they are really quite nice and super, ohh sorry, HYPER easy to adjust. I had no problem getting the classic "crackle" envelope for the clap going, for example.

The internal oscillator and noise are surprisingly useful. One can get some HUGE sounds out of the oscillator through the granular processing, as the number of grains basically multiplies the number of oscillators and there is even up to 10 voice unison, so theoretically you could get 1000 oscillators going, and that's not even using the sampler yet.

The "Playback Direction" mode for the grains is also a very nice idea. I don't think I've ever seen that one anywhere else before. It just makes so much sense!

I recorded a small demo while messing with the demo:
https://soundcloud.com/deltasign/audio- ... ta-test-01

The "choir" is a sample of me going "ahhhahah" into a shitty mic
The bass doesn't use samples at all, that's just the internal noise and oscillator.
The glitchy break thing is the good ol' "Funky Drummer" break
The drums are just the internal oscillator and noise again
The voice snippets are some random police scanner sample from Freesound
There is also a barely noticeable background atmo, which uses a recording of a leaking fauced I recorded ages ago

This demo is by no means an accurate example of the things that can be done with this. One can do much better and more "advanced" stuff. I literally made this after opening the demo for the first time. The demo also only runs for 20 minutes (which is fine), so I couldn't exactly get too fancy here.

There is just some limiting on the master, everything else is completely dry Quanta.

Great synth! Definitely check it out!

Drew Lake · Post by **Drew Lake** » Thu Jun 28, 2018 8:55 am

morelia wrote:Can't drag and drop a sample. What could be the prob. Running in Patchwork as admin

One thing I noticed with running some DAW's (if not all I dunno) in Admin is some plugins which have a drag and drop feature won't work.... But this is a pain in the ass because us Windows users have to run a DAW in Admin for it to work properly....

Examigan · Post by **Examigan** » Thu Jun 28, 2018 10:44 am

Drew Lake wrote:
morelia wrote:Can't drag and drop a sample. What could be the prob. Running in Patchwork as admin
One thing I noticed with running some DAW's (if not all I dunno) in Admin is some plugins which have a drag and drop feature won't work.... But this is a pain in the ass because us Windows users have to run a DAW in Admin for it to work properly....

To make it not as much of a bother (so you won't have to think about it each time), you could set the DAW to open that way every time. I have Windows 8.1 and for that OS you'd have to right-click on the DAW icon and go to Properties/Compatibility.

MillerSam · Post by **MillerSam** » Thu Jun 28, 2018 12:50 pm

I had the chance to play around with he Quanta granular synth

If there are user who experienced problems with drag & drop samples from the Ableton Live sample browser, it's a problem of Live not Quanta. The issue is known and there is no solution to fix this. It's mostly a format problem.

Cheers

Tom

antic604 · Post by **antic604** » Thu Jun 28, 2018 1:58 pm

How is it better than the 3x cheaper The Mangle?

Admittedly, the latter is not developed / supported any more, but I hear it works quite well as it is.

Quanta - A new granular synth from Audio Damage (Now available)