Partials & Discreprancies the new Kid of additive synths

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New version today. 1.0.4. (it is available on the account page)

The star of the show is the new MPE mode (basically click the unusable logo til it goes red, and the MPE is much more natural and simple than it used to). The pressure control is interacting with the amp envelope to give continuous control polyphonically. Higher velocity generate attack transients so it feels quite expressive, if I am allowed to say so myself. I've tuned it so it feels nice on seaboards, osmoses and the polybrute 12 in MPE mode. The slide/cc74 is just controlling the cutoff in this mode. A cool thing is to combine it with cc4 / foot control for sweeping the slots when the sequencer is turned off (I made a short video showing off that on the YouTube channel).

The second thing in 1.0.4 worth mentioning is patch versioning. If you turn it on in the bottom of the patch browser, clicking save no longer overwrites a patch, but adds an incrementing number to the patch name / file name.

There is a news post on the site with more thorough release notes:
https://www.unusable.net/news/partials- ... 04-update/

And here is a video showing of the new MPE mode with effects from the full suite v2:


All the Best,
Rasmus

[tq]

Oh no, you put a cup of coffee on the keyboard!

Careful, accidents happen, and coffee never goes well with electronics.

Nice version, need to try with my Erae.

[Old Norse]

Just... unbelievably gorgeous sounds!

PS.: Which pedal are you using as a CC controller?

[wagtunes]

What if you want to overwrite a patch?

[unusable]

What if you want to overwrite a patch?

Just turn off versioning in the patch browser. And it works again

[unusable]

Just... unbelievably gorgeous sounds!

PS.: Which pedal are you using as a CC controller?

Thanks. I had to check... Roland EV-5. I've had it forever but never really used it. I am not great at wah wah playing, so neither at this.

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Oh no, you put a cup of coffee on the keyboard!

Careful, accidents happen, and coffee never goes well with electronics.

Nice version, need to try with my Erae.

Haha. I put it there with the thought that someone might notice. The polybrute 12 has a better place for coffee though, in the upper left corner.

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A smaller update today to 1.0.5.

1. The partial nodes are a bit smoother to move.
2. A new play mode has been added to the slot sequencer. I got a great request to have the possibility to play through the slots and stop at the last. Kind of like how you can use kbd->reset and kbd->next in combination when the clocking is off, and let the slew time control the sweep from slot 1 to slot 2.

So I actually didn't have a special function hooked to that combination when clocking is on. Well, now I do.

When you have kbd->reset and kbd->next active and either internal or host clock, the slot sequencer will run through once following the tempo.

It works with the different autostep modes, so in pendulum it returns to the start, while normal ends at the last step, etc...

I dunno how much I will use this myself, but it opens up to some types of sounds that wasn't possible before, and it is quite cool to shape transients in percussive sounds as the internal stepping goes up to 96Hz.

I will make a video and a news post for the website about the new mode tomorrow, as I got stuck cleaning up some messy reusable objects in my codebase today... (the joys of summer cleaning )

If you wanna try it before, it is already available on your account page.

Oh yeah, almost forgot, I dimmed up the Unusable MPE button a little bit and the voice lanes, for people with lower contrast screens, I hope it can be seen now.

All the Best,
Rasmus

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Here is the video on the "one revolution setting":


As I was testing this feature out before release the other evening - my wife came into the studio as I was playing. I looked at her and said something like "Can you hear how beautiful this sounds?". She looked at me a bit confused, "I don't find this beautiful". "Ah, is it the bitcrush?", I turned it off... "No, it sounds even more annoying now"...

I guess Partials & Discrepancies is an acquired taste, and I need to have her in the studio much more often.

Anyway, I hope you can find some use for it.

[Funky40]

so i started my host to see on which version i`m on with P&D synth.
I can`t find any info.

In case it`s not there: Please, I`d like to have a visual feedback vs. where my install of a plugin is.
This is always very helpful. If: where ?

( "grant access" mails take -in my case- forever to come in. So i don`t necessarily update when available, or have even no clue if i did or not )

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so i started my host to see on which version i`m on with P&D synth.
I can`t find any info.

In case it`s not there: Please, I`d like to have a visual feedback vs. where my install of a plugin is.
This is always very helpful. If: where ?

( "grant access" mails take -in my case- forever to come in. So i don`t necessarily update when available, or have even no clue if i did or not )

Yeah, I was thinking about using the bottom of the preset browser for this, including a click to check if a newer version is available, earlier today. It will have to wait til after my vacation though. But I will likely roll out the current preset system to all my products in august, so it would make sense to get the checker and an about screen there before that.

Sorry about the pain. But I promise I will fix it. (until then, the version should be shown in the plugin manager (in logic it is called that at least)).

All the Best,
Rasmus

[Funky40]

Yeah, I was thinking about using the bottom of the preset browser for this, including a click to check if a newer version is available, earlier today. It will have to wait til after my vacation though. But I will likely roll out the current preset system to all my products in august, so it would make sense to get the checker and an about screen there before that.

All the Best,
Rasmus

that would be great !

yeah, preset system. At least for synths i find it absolutly necessary to have a good one. Inclouding a good rating system. Just one star does not do it. I find even 6 stars to be very limited in feedback.

coloured dots like U-He has it works great.
But i find even that too limited, at least vs. Zebra3.
Two colums of colored dots would work great, and would not take that much space.
just in case you have intentions to put there some work in.

one column for a rating, and one to give an idea where a sound lies ( dark, bright, harsh, shiny, ...you get the idea)
of course not as important vs. P&D as would be for Zebra3. But still, it creates the ability for the user to talk with one self

The better a rating system, the quicker we have a suitable sound loaded.
I find "this" in general completly underrated.


i like your synth.
funnily enough i ended up by a coinsidence, since i had to debug somnething in my patch, to mix in a Piano. Now that was probably one of the best Synth matches vs. Piano i ever had going.
i patch in GP (host). So that patch is now part of my patch collection, always ready to be played.


wait, i have GP loaded with said patch. The sound is:
Factory Aruba Jamaica Bahamas
love it

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Nice to hear you enjoy it, despite the lacking preset system.

I will continue the work on that part once I am back from my vacation - and it is probably good to get off staring into VSCode 10 hours a day and get some time to think and relax. I felt lately a bit that I've gotten a bit blind to what I am working on (which is something that happens to me often if I get into something a bit too intense). So my plan is to gather ideas and reflect on these first 3 months of running this as a business. For august the preset system enhancement and roll out across the range + adding slot sequencing to a few more of the effect plugins. After that there is some stuff I'd like to try with Curves & Membranes.

Anyway, thanks a lot for your support, and I've copied your notes into my note sheet regarding the preset system development.

All the Best,
Rasmus