The Synthmaster 3 Thread

[kv331]

Guys, for those of you experiencing crashes (assuming you installed latest build 14590), let's have a clean start:

1. delete all files under public documents folder:
windows: c:\users\public\public documents\synthmaster3
mac: /users/shared/synthmaster3

2. delete all files under documents folder (EXCEPT SynthMaster3LicenseKey.txt):
windows: <my documents folder>\synthmaster3
mac: <my documents folder>\synthmaster3

Let's see if this helps. Just so you know, I tested the VST3 with:

Reaper
FL Studio
Bitwig
Cubase

EDIT: I got an error with FLStudio VST3 in a subsequent run. Had to do with Program Change messages. Fixed (There's only program change on channel 1, no other channels) and released 14591

[mpaech]

Vielen Dank Bulent. du hast endlich den richtigen Hinweis gegeben. Das auch der Ordner "öffentliche Dokumente" gelöscht werden muss, hat das Problem gelöst. Hatte immer 2 andere Stellen gelöscht, dieser Ordner hatte sich zu weit "versteckt".
Freue mich sehr darüber, werde das Ticket bei Steinberg löschen lassen. Weiter viel Erfolg.

[kv331]

Great to hear that the issue is resolved now!

[VELLTONE MUSIC]

Some guitar manufacturers add a switch knob on the guitar to simulate trance gate effect,just on-off.
Why this option have to be so complicated and time consuming,every developer do it's own way,especially for newbies is really hard to learn how to use it,when a simple on-off sequencer on the output end of the workflow would be so much more easy and intuitive?
Just curious why nobody do it,not a criticism or demand :):)
Cheers:)

[kv331]

There is no trancegate effect right now in our products

[ReverendLove]

Revision 14591 installs w/o issues here

[SeBaer]

Guys, for those of you experiencing crashes (assuming you installed latest build 14590), let's have a clean start:
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That did the trick!

There is no trancegate effect right now in our products

Who needs a trancegate, when you have Step LFO?

[VELLTONE MUSIC]

There is no trancegate effect right now in our products

Who needs a trancegate, when you have Step LFO?
[/quote]
100% of people who don't know or don't care what step lfo or mseg is :):)

[SeBaer]

There is no trancegate effect right now in our products

Who needs a trancegate, when you have Step LFO?

100% of people who don't know or don't care what step lfo or mseg is :):)

no pity there...

[maxym.srpl]

Hello.
I'm enjoying SM3 attempting to produce SM3 track for the current OSC.
So far I found it stable in Reaper.

I'm trying to reconstruct some presets from SM2. How to achieve Modulator1+Modulator2 in SM3?
Have to say, that sometimes it's hard to draw connections between modules in the routing window. Somehow hard to pick up the pinpoint.

Let me also comment on GUI. In general, I like SM2 GUI more. But similarly to SM2, I have hard moments finding relationships between parameters and their modulators. I know I can check them using RMB or Matrix but still... Have no idea how it could be done better. Surge provides a glance view for that, but it has all operators on one screen.
On top of that:
1. In SM2, a value of the parameter being changed is constantly shown and updated in the information window (top center). The current value can be also inspected by hovering over a knob. In SM3 there those values are shown in pop-ups only. After a time it starts to be annoying (I mean the inability to inspect a value at a glance)
2. Comparing to SM2, Some knobs in SM3 have been moved to dedicated sub-tabs. Ie some parameters of LFO or drift/keytrack in oscillators. It results in more clicks. Not sure about motivation because it seems there might be enough space for those knobs to be shown all together. Hope it's only a matter of theming.

Again, thank you for your work.
I appreciate SM3 is free for all bundle owners with early access.

[kv331]

I'm trying to reconstruct some presets from SM2. How to achieve Modulator1+Modulator2 in SM3?
Have to say, that sometimes it's hard to draw connections between modules in the routing window. Somehow hard to pick up the pinpoint.

I am going to make it easier to pick ports in the routing view. You can connect multiple modulators into an osc input. They will all be added :

multi mods into osc.jpg

To see modulation sources for a knob, just as in SM2, click on the knob. The matrix will display modulation sources for that target parameter (Filter 1 Freq). SM3, just as in SM2, displayes parameters with assigned sources with highlights to indicate that they have modulation sources.

mod sources for target.jpg

Hello.
2. Comparing to SM2, Some knobs in SM3 have been moved to dedicated sub-tabs. Ie some parameters of LFO or drift/keytrack in oscillators. It results in more clicks. Not sure about motivation because it seems there might be enough space for those knobs to be shown all together. Hope it's only a matter of theming.

SM2 oscillators/modulators have Drift/Keytrack tabs as well. The UI for oscillators/modulator did not change. For LFOs, to be able to display the LFO envelope, I moved the envelope parameters to a new tab. (so yes there was a purpose in adding a new tab)

[audio/fault]

do you mean in the mac os settings (can't find this in SM2)?

Here it is for SM3:

settings 1.jpg

settings 2.jpg

ah, perfect! thanks! haven't updated yet, but i guess now is the time!

[exmatproton]

Maybe something to look at;

In the vector OSC there seems to be an issue with the Y-axis control. It doesn't seem to do anything in the '2D' setting. '1D' works as expected. (version 14591 of SM3, vst2, vst3)

[kv331]

In the vector OSC there seems to be an issue with the Y-axis control. It doesn't seem to do anything in the '2D' setting. '1D' works as expected. (version 14591 of SM3, vst2, vst3)

Can not reproduce. Y Axis knob works as expected in 1D/2D modes

[exmatproton]

In the vector OSC there seems to be an issue with the Y-axis control. It doesn't seem to do anything in the '2D' setting. '1D' works as expected. (version 14591 of SM3, vst2, vst3)

Can not reproduce. Y Axis knob works as expected in 1D/2D modes

In that case i will do a clean install