Hive's XY is brilliant

[joris.roling]

I really think the XY control's in Hive v1.2 are brilliant. Especially because they even work when the original patch had non assigned. In my mind the XY's in Zebra never really took off because very few patches had anything assigned to them.

But by auto-assigning them in every patch, Hive becomes so much more alive!

Why not have this auto assignment idea in Zebra aswel?
And please U-He, make the XY option available to Dive & Bazille as wel...

Because of this beauty, I created the Axyz Gems app (https://github.com/jorisroling/axyz-gems) for my Lightpad BLOCK, and now I truly enjoy Hive so much more. (I can now touch the sound)

Cheers, J*

[Urs]

Turns out, automatic assignments are relatively easy to do in synths with a relatively fixed signal flow. In Zebra, even 20 humans take more than three months to assign XYs in 500 presets. Sure, that's also because the factory bank is a collection of gems from Howard Scarr, but there's no guarantee that an automatic assignment algorithm will yield consistent results.

Same goes for ACE and Bazille. Modular synths aren't exactly easy to figure out, not even by algorithm.

[joris.roling]

Thanks for clarifying that, I understand. So the XY’s seem feasable in Diva & Repro? Any chance they appear in them in the future? Would be grand!

[Stokely]

XY-type controls are great for people like me: those who rarely know what they are after, but know what they like when they hear it

Man, I'm itching to get an MPE controller, Roli or something...too many wish list items.

[aMUSEd]

Thanks for clarifying that, I understand. So the XY’s seem feasable in Diva & Repro? Any chance they appear in them in the future? Would be grand!

The CPU hit might be an obstacle there

[EvilDragon]

I don't see why would that be a problem. They just "motion the knobs", so it's no different than automating x parameters in either plugin.