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Inversion Of Control · Sun May 06, 2018 6:52 am

skyscape wrote: I was looking for the presets in the plugin itself, down the bottom - but the host does indeed load them. We'll put that one down to me not having had my morning coffee yet when I was demoing. Have purchased and looking forward to playing with it more

You can also download some DX banks and start with them - there are tons of nice presets available to download.

skyscape · Post by **skyscape** » Sun May 06, 2018 7:46 am

Inversion Of Control wrote:
skyscape wrote: I was looking for the presets in the plugin itself, down the bottom - but the host does indeed load them. We'll put that one down to me not having had my morning coffee yet when I was demoing. Have purchased and looking forward to playing with it more
You can also download some DX banks and start with them - there are tons of nice presets available to download.

Great suggestion, just grabbed a massive pack of DX7 patches and am in FM heaven

Inversion Of Control · Sun May 06, 2018 9:21 am

skyscape wrote: Great suggestion, just grabbed a massive pack of DX7 patches and am in FM heaven

Just remember that Aurora FM has much more options than DX7, so DX7 presets should be just a base for future exploring. But it's a very good base if you are not good at desinging sounds from the scratch (like me

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RyFi · Post by **RyFi** » Tue May 08, 2018 3:47 am

The first phase of the fix for the rendering issues under non-default Windows display scaling settings is up. It now lays out properly and is usable for those who couldn't use it before. I'm still working on a second phase of the fix to remedy the associated font sizing issues.

Also made some GUI tweaks that you might find slightly lessens your disgust, for those who expressed their distaste.

skyscape · Post by **skyscape** » Tue May 08, 2018 10:34 am

Nice one, I think the GUI tweaks you've made are in improvement, definitely reads clearer with the contrast toned down a bit and some of the gradients removed. I think your colour coded system is very functional and I like working with it. It definitely helps on a synth with so many parameters on one screen, which I think is also great as it makes it very tweakable and open to easy experimentation (something I find lacking in other FM synths like say Sytrus, which has a bunch of tabs).

Roman Wisniak · Post by **Roman Wisniak** » Tue May 08, 2018 11:02 am

Great GUI update! Looks lot better.

jens · Post by **jens** » Tue May 08, 2018 12:24 pm

fmr wrote:I still cannot understand why people keep following the DX7 paradigm. Even Yamaha had gone beyond that long ago, first with the DX5/DX1 followed by the DX7 II (which layered two FM elements, because clearly, one single FM element was too short), then with the TX816 (which could layer up to eight FM elements), followed by the SY77/TG77/SY99 (more algorithms, more waveforms, up to four FM layers, or combination of FM and PCM layers, interaction with samples), and later with FS1R. Still, programmers seem to think that there is something magical in the DX7

And yet for the - imo - best FM synth they have ever made they pretty much went back to that early concept (and made it far more accessible).

Get informed or lost.

RyFi · Post by **RyFi** » Tue May 08, 2018 7:52 pm

Roman Wisniak wrote:Great GUI update! Looks lot better.

skyscape wrote:Nice one, I think the GUI tweaks you've made are in improvement, definitely reads clearer with the contrast toned down a bit and some of the gradients removed. I think your colour coded system is very functional and I like working with it. It definitely helps on a synth with so many parameters on one screen, which I think is also great as it makes it very tweakable and open to easy experimentation (something I find lacking in other FM synths like say Sytrus, which has a bunch of tabs).

Thanks, gents! I'm very happy that you like the changes.

You definitely understand my design decisions and rationalizations and constraints and I really appreciate that that doesn't go unnoticed. I put a lot of thought and effort into the layout and visual feedback mechanisms. The parts of the colour scheme pertaining to the branding are relatively new so I'm not ashamed to admit that there was room for improvement.

Re: Sytrus - exactly. I find it unbearable to use because of how scrunched it is and how everything is spread across all these different tabs. I'm also put off by how the first patches you audition are drenched in reverb, which led to me making a principled decision to leave the reverb off of my included presets.

Roman Wisniak · Post by **Roman Wisniak** » Wed May 09, 2018 9:20 am

Also clicks are gone!

Newest version works great. Thank you.

RyFi · Post by **RyFi** » Wed May 09, 2018 6:04 pm

Awesome. Thanks.

(To readers: Clicks were probably from voice-stealing due to limited voices in demo mode. Either that or one of the previous builds was glitched.)

RyFi · Post by **RyFi** » Thu May 10, 2018 3:00 am

New version up: This includes a 32-bit release, the remaining fix for the issues with non-default Windows scaling settings, and two new improvements to the monophonic mode.

Halonmusic · Post by **Halonmusic** » Thu May 10, 2018 3:08 am

Thanks for making a 32 bit version

RyFi · Post by **RyFi** » Thu May 10, 2018 3:13 am

My pleasure! Please make sure it works properly ;-P

(I need to handle some assembly routines differently between the two versions, that's why providing the 32-bit version wasn't totally trivial... but it's all set up for subsequent parallel releases without issue from here on in.)

Halonmusic · Post by **Halonmusic** » Thu May 10, 2018 4:14 am

Yup sure i'll let you know if it works

Inversion Of Control · Thu May 10, 2018 10:04 am

Halonmusic wrote:Yup sure i'll let you know if it works

I know you propably been asked this hundred times, but why are you so into 32bit versions?

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