Charlatan³ Free VA synth updated to v3.3.2 (Win/Linux)

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The_Anarchivist_00 wrote: Tue Oct 24, 2023 6:32 pm I'm too stupid to run that. I'm letting Charlatan rest for now. No worries.
wikter wrote: Tue Oct 24, 2023 4:41 pm
The_Anarchivist_00 wrote: Tue Oct 24, 2023 5:46 am I am running BC Patchwork within Orion DAW,
Have you tried Polac's VST3 adapter?
DXi, VST3 & other plugin formats available as shell...
https://www.xlutop.com/buzz/zip/?C=M;O=A
https://www.xlutop.com/buzz/zip/vst3shell_v1.2.1.zip

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Working nicely in FL Studio 21.2 version 3835. I'll keep testing. So far I would recommend destination for LFO modulations need to renamed to LFO instead of Mod3, Mod4 IMO..

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I'm playing with it in Debian 12 Linux and so far it feels rather satisfying. It is deceptively simple as traditional for Charlatans. ;) I will report if I encounter any bugs. So far I think there's something odd happening with some modulations, but I'm not 100%. No crashes so far. Thank you so much Karrikuh! I'm a fan of your FX, too.

Thank you for supporting Linux! :party:
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C.Ray wrote: Tue Oct 24, 2023 6:59 pm Working nicely in FL Studio 21.2 version 3835. I'll keep testing. So far I would recommend destination for LFO modulations need to renamed to LFO instead of Mod3, Mod4 IMO..
Sorry, each 4 mod have different options: LFO, XLFO, MSEG, EG...

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Re: VST3 - DDMF Metaplugin seems to be working for me at the moment. And I am able to run up to 8x oversampling to boot. What a great sounding synth.

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Fun fact - trying to assign more than 4 modulators to a parameter (via drag-drop) appears to produce a crash.

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Charlatan3 appears to crash my DAW if left running for a long time (4-8 hours). I reproduced it three times so far.
Win10 using FL Studio 12. Ryzen 5600x CPU.
I basically left a MIDI sequence playing on loop using a modified LA 2019 patch, with some automation clips being applied.
Could be some sort of timer overflow in memory or something.

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- GUI does not have to be active (third try had GUI closed), so must be the audio thread.
- I also encountered an issue where returning to Charlatan3 after 2-3 hours of silence caused a 'signal burst', causing some weird DC offset issue - my DAW was reporting 100% volume and clipping but there was no sound. Changing patch and attempting to play a note would cause another signal burst, after I used the "panic" feature to stop all audio, so I had no choice but to reload the plugin entirely to stop the issue.

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Hi!! thanks for the update, v3 is awesome!!
Inspired by this new version, I started a track on Ableton Live made entirely with Charlatan (drums, synth, etc.).... Everything was going well, until I set up some filter automations.
I have 9 instances of Charlatan, and if I remove the 2 that have filter automations, Ableton no longer crashes.
Map, or using macros, I think these automations are the cause of the crashes.
The moments when crashes occur can be varied: freezing a track, cropping an audio sample, selecting a track, switching off a device (synth, plugin, whatever)...
I hope these bugs will be fixed during this beta version, and I can't wait to try the final version!!!
Many thanks!
win10 - AL.11

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cyrb wrote: Wed Oct 25, 2023 9:58 am Charlatan3 appears to crash my DAW if left running for a long time (4-8 hours). I reproduced it three times so far.
Win10 using FL Studio 12. Ryzen 5600x CPU.
I basically left a MIDI sequence playing on loop using a modified LA 2019 patch, with some automation clips being applied.
Could be some sort of timer overflow in memory or something.

Some notes

- GUI does not have to be active (third try had GUI closed), so must be the audio thread.
- I also encountered an issue where returning to Charlatan3 after 2-3 hours of silence caused a 'signal burst', causing some weird DC offset issue - my DAW was reporting 100% volume and clipping but there was no sound. Changing patch and attempting to play a note would cause another signal burst, after I used the "panic" feature to stop all audio, so I had no choice but to reload the plugin entirely to stop the issue.
Yes I noticed the weird noise after leaving my computer on for a while. In my case it sounded like the reverb had gone crazy and made an enormous crashing sound with every note I played
THIS IS MY MUSIC: https://spti.fi/rZyjX7i :phones:

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I have removed the plugin. I will wait a few months until it is mature.

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Crashing Reaper when changing presets (Win 10).

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Odd Fella wrote: Wed Oct 25, 2023 10:53 am I have removed the plugin. I will wait a few months until it is mature.
Me too, TBH. Fair enough, it's labelled "beta".

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it works just great in FLStudio in case anyone is put off by bugginess but still wants to try it. I'm loving it, creating lots of presets
THIS IS MY MUSIC: https://spti.fi/rZyjX7i :phones:

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Odd Fella wrote: Tue Oct 24, 2023 1:53 pm As someone already quoted, it seems that any pitch modulation applies to all 4 oscillators at once, except those, whose Ratio sinewave symbol is turned off.
Which is reasonable. I don't see many scenarios where I would want to have different pitch modulation for each oscillator or even sub-oscillator.

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Perhaps a compromise could be reached by having the wavy-modulation-symbol having a third state, Inverted modulation. If the current architecture of the synth allows it easily...

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