Harmony Bloom by Mario Nieto (MIDI plugin)

[MarioNietoWorld]

Harmony Bloom 1.2.9 Free Update Available for Desktop (Coming soon to iOS)

How to Update:
Harmony Bloom automatically detects when a new version is available, and the plugin itself will offer the option to download the new installer directly.

Alternatively, you can download it from your account at www.marionietoworld.com

If you bought Harmony Bloom without an account, don't worry. Just create an account at www.marionietoworld.com using the same email you used for the purchase, and then email me to link your purchase to your new account.

Also today, I'll be live creating music with Harmony Bloom 1.2.9 If you feel like it, drop by and say hi.


What’s New:

NEW: Harmony Bloom Expansion pack with 60 new presets

NEW: Import Presets
You can now import presets by simply dragging and dropping a folder or the presets individually onto Harmony Bloom.

Improved preset navigation and management: now, when you open the list of presets, the loaded preset is marked for quick identification. Additionally, you can navigate and select a new preset using the arrow keys, press Enter to load the selected preset, or press Delete to delete the selected preset.

NEW: Import/Export Look
It is now possible to export or import custom looks using new buttons to select the file you want to export or import. You can also simply drag and drop the look file onto Harmony Bloom.

NEW: Double-clicking on a note now toggles its status between active and inactive.

FIXED: On Mac computers with M1 Max processors, Logic would sometimes crash immediately and other times after a while.

FIXED: When activating the toggle Random Oct for trigger 1, trigger 7 gets activated.

FIXED: Issue with displaying panel menus on right-click.

CHANGED: Now the full name of most parameters is shown instead of being truncated.

FIXED: Note Min and Note Max parameters were not saved and loaded correctly with the state.

UI small corrections.

[Uncle E]

NEW: Double-clicking on a note now toggles its status between active and inactive.

Smart. This would be a cool function if you ever make a Euclidean version of Harmony Bloom.

[eckon]

Hello Mario, thanks for this update (1.2.9)

I just found something in the new presets that turns off the MIDI out. Comparing my presets to the new ones, I noticed that every time I switch to a new preset (Harmony Bloom Expansion Pack V1), the MIDI out is disabled. I have to enable it manually every time!

Here's an example of my preset that retains the output device selection (this value is not present in the new presets):
<midiManager>
<Outputs output-device="loopMIDI Port" output-channel="1"/><MidiOutputs midiOutputEnable="1">
...
</MidiOutputs>
</midiManager>

I'm using the standalone version of harmony Bloom.

[MarioNietoWorld]

Hello Mario, thanks for this update (1.2.9)

I just found something in the new presets that turns off the MIDI out. Comparing my presets to the new ones, I noticed that every time I switch to a new preset (Harmony Bloom Expansion Pack V1), the MIDI out is disabled. I have to enable it manually every time!

Here's an example of my preset that retains the output device selection (this value is not present in the new presets):
<midiManager>
<Outputs output-device="loopMIDI Port" output-channel="1"/><MidiOutputs midiOutputEnable="1">
...
</MidiOutputs>
</midiManager>

I'm using the standalone version of harmony Bloom.

Indeed, there is an issue with loading the new presets and the MIDI out in the standalone version. I'll fix it as soon as possible.

[maxdis]

I have a little feature request for this great plugin: it would be possibile to add "musical values" to the note duration? Now we can set the note duration in seconds, but I think that having the possibility to also choose between 1/16 , 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 1, 2 etc would be really useful. Especially for ambient music having very long values as 4 or 8 would be great. Thank you

[susquash]

Just had this for a short time so far, but it is very fun to come up with settings that get a good groove going. Good work on this.

[bmanic]

Just saw the latest stream. Looks like another great update is coming up!

This is extremely generous development Mario. Thank you so much! Hope you are selling the plugin like hotcakes. Have you tried contacting some legacy media like Sound on Sound for some extra exposure? I'm sure they would be willing to review the plugin at some point.

[DoubleStop]

Just in case anyone is interested. I am testing out the new Ableton Live Beta (12.1b1). I can add Midi instruments and Harmony Bloom in a separate track. Everything is fine until I try to change input on a Midi track to Harmony Bloom. Just selecting that option in the Input of the track crashes Ableton, every time! I have rebooted ... Sent a crash report to Ableton. This just started happening. I did not have this problem until I upgraded Live Beta 12.1b1.

I have Mac M1 with Sonoma 14.5

[Artie Fichelle]

I cannot get harmony bloom to run under wine in linux. Any idea?

[BluesMuse]

Just in case anyone is interested. I am testing out the new Ableton Live Beta (12.1b1). I can add Midi instruments and Harmony Bloom in a separate track. Everything is fine until I try to change input on a Midi track to Harmony Bloom. Just selecting that option in the Input of the track crashes Ableton, every time! I have rebooted ... Sent a crash report to Ableton. This just started happening. I did not have this problem until I upgraded Live Beta 12.1b1.

I have Mac M1 with Sonoma 14.5

Working OK in Windows 11 (Live 12.1b1). Mac specific I guess.

[pdxindy]

Just saw the latest stream. Looks like another great update is coming up!

This is extremely generous development Mario. Thank you so much! Hope you are selling the plugin like hotcakes. Have you tried contacting some legacy media like Sound on Sound for some extra exposure? I'm sure they would be willing to review the plugin at some point.

What's new in 1.3?

[DoubleStop]

So, I am stuck. No matter what I do, I cannot figure out a way to not make Ableton crash whenever I switch MIDI input track to Harmony bloom. (Using Harmony Bloom v1.2.9). I created a a full crash report and request for support on Ableton's Crash reporting site.

Here are some of the last. lines of the Ableton 12 Log.txt file. Does this provide any clues to what is happening that's causing Harmony Bloom to do this?

Delay=0, MIDI Clock Type="Song", MIDI Hardware Resync Message="Stop and Start"]
MidiOutDevice [Name="ToPush", Track=true, Sync=true, Remote=false, MIDI Clock Sync Delay=0, MIDI Clock Type="Song", MIDI Hardware Resync Message="Stop and Start"]
2024-07-04T15:56:51.134742: info: Keywords: Cache size: 1 [0, 0]
2024-07-04T15:56:51.233713: info: Keywords: Cache size: 2 [0, 1]
2024-07-04T15:56:56.599014: info: MemoryUsage: V: 424.2 GB, R: 1 GB, P: 0 Bytes
2024-07-04T15:57:18.006448: info: Keywords: Cache size: 3 [0, 2]
2024-07-04T15:57:18.239521: info: Keywords: Cache size: 4 [0, 4]
2024-07-04T15:57:18.526197: info: Keywords: Cache size: 5 [0, 6]
2024-07-04T15:57:18.714341: info: Keywords: Cache size: 6 [0, 8]
2024-07-04T15:57:18.874526: info: Keywords: Cache size: 7 [0, 10]
2024-07-04T15:57:19.249016: info: CoreAudio: Detected devicelist change
2024-07-04T15:57:19.251061: info: CoreAudio: Device init: iPhone Microphone (1 In, 0 Out) (Apple Inc., Id: 231, UniqueId: BF50E2D8-3EC8-4006-97C6-FD1900000003)
2024-07-04T15:57:22.531680: info: VST3: Going to create: Harmony Bloom
2024-07-04T15:57:23.220967: info: VST3: plugin processor successfully loaded: Mario Nieto 'Harmony Bloom' v1.2.9 (cid: {ABCDEF01-9182-FAEB-4D6E-72774D6E6862})
2024-07-04T15:57:23.221273: info: VST3: plugin supports the IInfoListener interface
2024-07-04T15:57:23.222465: info: Vst3: couldn't initialize controller with processor state of Harmony Bloom: not implemented
2024-07-04T15:57:23.222477: info: VST3: parameter count is 2130
2024-07-04T15:57:23.223379: info: VST3: Created: Harmony Bloom
2024-07-04T15:57:23.230703: info: VST3: couldn't get controller state of Harmony Bloom: not implemented
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Where it crashes

Where Ableton Crashes.jpeg

[Lerian]

For some reason, the included presets (in 129 update) don't load. They show in the browser with no author but double click on them doesn't do anything. Win11/Reaper.

[Lerian]

For some reason, the included presets (in 129 update) don't load. They show in the browser with no author but double click on them doesn't do anything. Win11/Reaper.

I also tried to copy them inside the Factory folder, with no luck - they won't load no matter what I do. Is anyone else having this problem or is just me?

[sqigls]

i think i had to drag them onto the GUI from memory, but yeah i had a similar problem