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PauliIndie · Post by **PauliIndie** » Sat Jul 23, 2022 6:24 am

And CLAP support is definitely a possibility, I think it's being implemented in iPlug2 framework I'm using for Wave Manuel

Full Bucket · Post by **Full Bucket** » Sat Jul 23, 2022 7:03 am

Yes, in the iPlug2/clap branch

Tj Shredder · Post by **Tj Shredder** » Sat Jul 23, 2022 12:55 pm

Then MPE shouldn’t be far either…
(Sorry, I have to point to MPE always, its too much fun to be able to play expressive synths…)

briefcasemanx · Post by **briefcasemanx** » Sat Jul 23, 2022 10:08 pm

Why might one use iplug2 over Juce?

PauliIndie · Post by **PauliIndie** » Sun Jul 24, 2022 9:56 am

I chose iPlug2 for Wave Manuel because it's free and most things in Juce I don't need anyway

Midi in, audio out, UI components (that I can customise or write from scratch) and I'm good to go!

Full Bucket · Post by **Full Bucket** » Sun Jul 24, 2022 11:21 am

Licensing and light-weight

IV! · Post by **IV!** » Sun Jul 24, 2022 9:45 pm

I'm impressed with the look and potential of this synthesizer! Unfortunately I have a problem with midi in Windows 7 64 bit, so I can't play with it yet. I hope this is the lack of AVX support that you will add in the near future along with M1. Then I hope this Wave Manuel will be a great synthesizer for the One Synth Challenge round, and you'll get a bunch of professional beta testers!) I will be following this thread in the hope that you will write here when the new version of Wave Manuel is released!

PauliIndie · Post by **PauliIndie** » Tue Jul 26, 2022 4:29 pm

Wave Manuel now works on AVX! I'll release an updated version later this week.

Windows 7 64bit I'm not sure about, I think official minimum target of iPlug2 is Windows 8. But it's worth trying, would be nice to know what happens there.

noiseresearch · Post by **noiseresearch** » Tue Jul 26, 2022 6:58 pm

Play with it for an hour now. My first impression: great little synthesizer, great sounding oscillators and shaper/drive. Seems like a great tool especially for pads. The UI is really interesting and refreshing too. One may needs a bit of time to get used too use it but it's a really nice approach, yet I feel some elements could be placed differently and I really dislike the font. I find the filter a bit too digital; the scale seems a bit off and the resonance is quite harsh. Can't say much about the reverb other than my ears do not like it, but I can say Wave Manuel sounds great without any effects. I would love to see a (a) pan section, (b) at least one divider (1/2) added to the envelope length, (c) more lfo shapes, (d) options for different filter, (e) knobs instead of a drop-down menu for the FM ratio.

Thanks for this one so far. A great synthesizer with the potential to become a freeware classic

PauliIndie · Post by **PauliIndie** » Wed Jul 27, 2022 7:09 am

noiseresearch wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 6:58 pm I find the filter a bit too digital; the scale seems a bit off and the resonance is quite harsh. Can't say much about the reverb other than my ears do not like it, but I can say Wave Manuel sounds great without any effects.

Thanks for your feedback!

I agree with your criticism. The filter is the most basic resonant digital filter possible, but I feel it's usable with some drive applied (WM is mostly about the oscillator anyway). I'll be researching more filter types in the future.

The worst thing for me is that filter scale is not constant between samplerates. I will be working on fixing this next week and also fine-tuning hidden engine parameters with some helping ears. After this update I try to keep changes to audio code minimal (not messing with people's unfinished projects), concentrating on bugs and UI.

I've published the reverb code here: https://github.com/el-visio/dattorro-verb - There's room for improvement like adding modulation to delays as suggested by the original algorithm designer Jon Dattorro. But since most people will use other reverbs anyway I think it's not too urgent. Btw also some other parts of the code will be open source in the future.

The features in WM will be kept mostly as it is (MIDI learn and other UI improvements will be implemented) but there will be more advanced products with the same oscillator technology. Both fixed routing (like WM) and a more traditional mod matrix approach. I'll keep listening to suggestions for those. Cheers!

PauliIndie · Post by **PauliIndie** » Fri Jul 29, 2022 4:07 pm

New video: How to create a synthwave pad using Wave Manuel
On the weekend I hopefully can release a compatibility and bugfix update

PauliIndie · Post by **PauliIndie** » Sat Jul 30, 2022 5:10 pm

Bugfix and compatibility update 1.0.6 is released!

Support for ARM Neon (Apple M1)
Support for Intel AVX
Polyphone is 8 voices
More envelope length multipliers 1/2x ... 1/16x
Bugfix: Cursor used to travel while hidden (Windows)

martiu · Post by **martiu** » Sat Jul 30, 2022 8:41 pm

PauliIndie wrote: Sat Jul 30, 2022 5:10 pm Bugfix and compatibility update 1.0.6 is released!

Support for ARM Neon (Apple M1)
Support for Intel AVX
Polyphone is 8 voices
More envelope length multipliers 1/2x ... 1/16x
Bugfix: Cursor used to travel while hidden (Windows)

Thank you for this interesting little synth, i just tried it out, it can get nasty, just the way i like it, it reminds me a lot to Pendulate synth, gritty and rough, very nice

Erisian · Post by **Erisian** » Sun Jul 31, 2022 12:17 pm

PauliIndie wrote: Fri Jul 22, 2022 8:30 pm Great to hear this, Polac!

At the moment the plugin does not work with M1 Macs and older x64 CPUs without AVX2 instructions. I'll be implementing support for those in near future.

This is great news! I wanted to try this one but didn't find out until after I had downloaded it that it uses AVX2.

Ah_Dziz · Post by **Ah_Dziz** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 8:35 pm

Oops wrong place to post

Wave Manuel - FREE stereophonic waveshaping synth