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KBSoundSmith · Post by **KBSoundSmith** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 4:02 pm

Can't wait for the Bazille update! I finally broke down and bought it shortly after getting Hive 2 -- it took a while, but I put aside (err, made an exception to...) my irrational hatred of cables and took the plunge. Bazille is a unicorn.

If I recall correctly from another thread, the mapper might be used as a bank of additive partials? Anything else being added/changed?

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 4:30 pm

KBSoundSmith wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2019 4:02 pmIf I recall correctly from another thread, the mapper might be used as a bank of additive partials? Anything else being added/changed?

The settings in the Mapper can be treated like a spectrum which is then converted into a set of added sine waves. Which you can use as oscillator waveform then.

More changes are mostly about the preset browser, MPE compatibility and the new note stealing law which is currently only in Hive IIRC. Latter is a simple tweak that musically make a lot of sense, i.e. it "feels" like you have more voices available simply because it gives priority to larger intervals, e.g. avoids collisions in note stealing between left hand and right hand. (requires a host with proper MIDI time stamping to full effect when playing live, such as Logic and hopefully all major ones)

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 4:36 pm

(honestly, the new note stealing thing doesn't sound like much, but for me it's been a revelation... there's still room for improvement, but it's already beyond anything I've tried before - set Hive to 4 voices, hold a chord with the left hand and play some stuff with the right hand - with proper time stamping the chord will persist no matter what you do with your right hand. Then try the same in, uhm, anything else, pretty much)

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 4:37 pm

(gawd, I'd love to make a video...)

spunkmuffin · Post by **spunkmuffin** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 4:49 pm

Urs wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2019 8:35 pmBut also, as Sascha's work was mentioned, we've nailed a certain reverb and there's a dynamics tool which has been in the works on and off for a couple of years.

Intriguing.
Doesn't Presswerk have all of Sascha's dynamics ideas?
Will some of this technology make it's way into Zebra3?

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 5:02 pm

spunkmuffin wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2019 4:49 pm
Urs wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2019 8:35 pmBut also, as Sascha's work was mentioned, we've nailed a certain reverb and there's a dynamics tool which has been in the works on and off for a couple of years.
Intriguing.
Doesn't Presswerk have all of Sascha's dynamics ideas?

Uhbik-C is a completely different approach than Presswerk. That dynamics tool is yet something else entirely.

Will some of this technology make it's way into Zebra3?

Sure. Hive, Bazille, Repro, Zebra2 all have some Sascha DNA as well.

KBSoundSmith · Post by **KBSoundSmith** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 5:21 pm

Urs wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2019 4:36 pm (honestly, the new note stealing thing doesn't sound like much, but for me it's been a revelation... there's still room for improvement, but it's already beyond anything I've tried before - set Hive to 4 voices, hold a chord with the left hand and play some stuff with the right hand - with proper time stamping the chord will persist no matter what you do with your right hand. Then try the same in, uhm, anything else, pretty much)

Huh. That's actually rather amazing. I also noticed in cases where it does steal a note from the left hand, it seems to take it from the highest interior voice, keeping the lower notes intact. Very nice. This is the kind of seemingly simple improvement that once you experience, you can't revert back

Cepheus · Post by **Cepheus** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 6:52 pm

Maybe I missed it, but Uhbik-C a compressor sounds new to me

spunkmuffin · Post by **spunkmuffin** » Thu Oct 03, 2019 1:37 pm

Urs wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2019 5:02 pm Uhbik-C is a completely different approach than Presswerk. That dynamics tool is yet something else entirely.

More intrigue.
Is Uhbik-C some kind of invisible tropical fish?
Do three entirely different approaches to dynamics exist?

spunkmuffin · Post by **spunkmuffin** » Thu Oct 03, 2019 8:26 pm

Hehe I'm really looking forward to Howards long-awaited Bazille Cookbook.

lunardigs · Post by **lunardigs** » Thu Oct 03, 2019 10:50 pm

Dynamics processing can be really detailed. Presswerk is a super-tool IMO. If Uhbik-C is a completely different approach, that makes me pretty excited for the new Uhbik stuff. I love audio processors/effects.

sascha · Post by **sascha** » Fri Oct 04, 2019 10:22 am

I'd say they complement each other. C can do things that PW can't do, and vice-versa. In a nutshell, C is more on the weird and extreme/'creative' side, but like PW it's designed with great care to let it stay pleasant under most circumstances.

ckoe · Post by **ckoe** » Sun Oct 06, 2019 3:08 pm

I hope an u-he MS-20 is coming. The hardware clones are not close enough to the original. Can u-he software come closer?

AnX · Post by **AnX** » Sun Oct 06, 2019 3:54 pm

ckoe wrote: Sun Oct 06, 2019 3:08 pm I hope an u-he MS-20 is coming. The hardware clones are not close enough to the original.

really? how did you come to that conclusion?

i doubt software is going to be closer, not yet anyway

toonertik · Post by **toonertik** » Sun Oct 06, 2019 5:07 pm

Urs wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2019 8:35 pm In the foreseeable future:

CVilization

Foreseeable....
I can only just see beyond my nose...

So, is it that close yet...
my racks are filling fast

Any chance of some news on this Urs?

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