KVR Audio

Mutant · Post by **Mutant** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 2:04 pm

FrettedSynth wrote:
Mutant wrote:Feature request: I want to be able to turn off FreeAmp's cab simulation stage.
Speaker bypass ? Set speaker to Green Hives place the mic at the center possition and you have it right from the preamp

Hmm... How can i know that the mic is dead center and not one pixel away from it ?

I'm looking at Chainer's cpu meter and it stays at ~14% all the time regardless of the mic position - i think it should drop at least a couple % after disengaging the cab sim or am i wrong ?

OldGeezer · Post by **OldGeezer** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:14 pm

Wow! What an amazing evolution! The whole time I'm playing with it I'm thinking "Holy @#$%!...This is free?!" Awesome sound, awesome GUI, I love what it can do to my guitar samples.

One thing I noticed though, both with v1.5 and with v2, when I play any sampler through it, eventually the sound cuts out and is replaced by a nasty buzzing harsh-doorbell type noise, almost sounds like a hardware audio circuit is short-circuiting somewhere. Happens alot after a long sustain. As soon as I release and play new notes, it works fine again. I was using mostly plugsound modules when I noticed it in V1.5, but I've sinced scrapped those and am using Kontakt2, same thing. I've tried raising my latency, same thing.

I'm using feeamp in Sonar4 on a 3GHz/2Gb/Audigy2 machine. No biggie...I still have Freeamp V1 and it works flawlessly, but it would sure be nice to figure out what's wrong on my end that is interfering with the new releases.

Great work! Sounds and looks awesome otherwise.

Newbie Brad · Post by **Newbie Brad** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:17 pm

Great results so far. Later I'll see if I can upload a recording.

guitarzan · Post by **guitarzan** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:28 pm

OldGeezer wrote:One thing I noticed though, both with v1.5 and with v2, when I play any sampler through it, eventually the sound cuts out and is replaced by a nasty buzzing harsh-doorbell type noise, almost sounds like a hardware audio circuit is short-circuiting somewhere. Happens alot after a long sustain. As soon as I release and play new notes, it works fine again. I was using mostly plugsound modules when I noticed it in V1.5, but I've sinced scrapped those and am using Kontakt2, same thing. I've tried raising my latency, same thing.

Could it be the gate cutting in and out as the note decays? You probably wouldn't even need a noisegate for samples, if that was it.

koolkeys · Post by **koolkeys** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:47 pm

I would say that the gate is the "problem" here also. At first, I didn't even know it was there! Just turn it off and see if it makes a difference!

Brent

koolkeys · Post by **koolkeys** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:48 pm

asseca wrote:
koolkeys wrote:I have a feature request, if you are interested. If not, then ignore me!

With a typical live setup, you would have pedals to turn things on and off, correct? Well, I'm assuming you can automate using MIDI on this plug. But that doesn't do any good for live use.

So what about a way to turn different stomps on and off using the computer keyboard? That way, it will be a quick switch instead of having to get the mouse to the button and click. And if you don't know when exactly you're going to switch, automation won't help anyways.

Brent
Try Bome's Midi Translator ...

Thanks! I will look into that!

Brent

FrettedSynth · Post by **FrettedSynth** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 4:12 pm

OldGeezer wrote: One thing I noticed though, both with v1.5 and with v2, when I play any sampler through it, eventually the sound cuts out and is replaced by a nasty buzzing harsh-doorbell type noise, almost sounds like a hardware audio circuit is short-circuiting somewhere. Happens alot after a long sustain. As soon as I release and play new notes, it works fine again. I was using mostly plugsound modules when I noticed it in V1.5, but I've sinced scrapped those and am using Kontakt2, same thing. I've tried raising my latency, same thing.

Yep! its the noise gate, try to turn the Threshold\decay up and see if that helps? I still have a bit of work I see on the noise gate, others mentioned also although it seems to show up more using samples then when playing a real guitar? Will look into it.

Like guitarzan said you most likely won't need the gate when using a sampler? try to turn it off?

Fretted Synth

OldGeezer · Post by **OldGeezer** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 4:19 pm

Hey! Thanks Guitarzan and CoolKeys. I think that may have done it...I've been playing for a few minutes with the gate off and it hasn't happened, so I'll keep my fingers crossed. I'll do some more scientific experiments tonight with the gate on and off and different presets.

Thanks again! I can't believe what Freeamp can do to my samples. Even my already distorted samples take on entirely new sounds while still sounding 'real'.

Seriously, are the commercial amp/cab/fx sims actually this good? I'd be pretty hard-pressed to even bother trying to plug my instruments into anything else, free or otherwise.

FrettedSynth...if the commercial devs had any brains, they'd hire you...just to keep you from releasing anything else -How can they compete with a rival plugin that's free?! Heh heh.

You rock man!

OldGeezer · Post by **OldGeezer** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 5:24 pm

Woops...spoke too soon. It still does it. Almost sounds like a perfectly uniform medium-pitched fart, and it isn't only during long sustains. It's apparently random, and I can play a few minutes without it at times, so I suspect I could render out a tune several times and get one take with no glitches if I had to

Could be it never happens when I'm just rendering out, haven't tried yet. I'll try to sort it out.

Newbie Brad · Post by **Newbie Brad** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 6:35 pm

http://ia300216.us.archive.org/3/items/ ... ashtan.mp3

MP3, 22.1/64 stereo

"Cuisine Of Indikashtan"

by Newbie Brad, © 2006 3 Pups Music

empty Coke bottle + Fretted Synth GCBS

fretless electric guitar + FreeAmp 2.0

koolkeys · Post by **koolkeys** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 7:23 pm

OldGeezer wrote:Woops...spoke too soon. It still does it. Almost sounds like a perfectly uniform medium-pitched fart, and it isn't only during long sustains. It's apparently random, and I can play a few minutes without it at times, so I suspect I could render out a tune several times and get one take with no glitches if I had to

Could be it never happens when I'm just rendering out, haven't tried yet. I'll try to sort it out.

Is it almost like a lower pitched crackle? I had a couple times where that was happening and I just thought it was the gate letting things through. I will test again when I get home from work. But I do remember the little noise happening. It wasn't cutting out, but just adding noise.

I'll let you know what I find.

Brent

OldGeezer · Post by **OldGeezer** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 7:54 pm

Oh the sound cuts out on mine for sure. It's almost like a lawnmower sample gets played instead of the guitar sample, heh heh. Funny, though, I went ten minutes without hearing it just now...I was going to try to record it happening and it wouldn't happen. Could also depend on the preset. I'll have to start making note of which presets it happens with...if it's just a matter of keeping a pedal FX turned off or avoiding a particular amp, no big deal there.

The only clue I can think of is that V1.5 does it too, and V1 never did...?

grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:02 pm

markdeaton wrote:Here's a little sump'm. Again, mixing with cans so it probably sounds like ass (too much treble I imagine).

www.strafed.net/stuff/asdf.mp3

cool tone is it 2 tracks or one?

grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:03 pm

Newbie Brad wrote:http://mp3download.myspace.com/index.cf ... d=20886201

MP3, 22.1/64 stereo

"Cuisine Of Indikashtan"

by Newbie Brad, © 2006 3 Pups Music

empty Coke bottle + Fretted Synth GCBS

fretless electric guitar + FreeAmp 2.0

where is the curry and homous?

sounds cool.

FrettedSynth · Post by **FrettedSynth** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:31 pm

OldGeezer wrote:Oh the sound cuts out on mine for sure. It's almost like a lawnmower sample gets played instead of the guitar sample, heh heh. Funny, though, I went ten minutes without hearing it just now...I was going to try to record it happening and it wouldn't happen. Could also depend on the preset. I'll have to start making note of which presets it happens with...if it's just a matter of keeping a pedal FX turned off or avoiding a particular amp, no big deal there.

The only clue I can think of is that V1.5 does it too, and V1 never did...?

Let me know what you find? I just did some testing and the only thing close to what you mention I found is gate chatter? or with the gate off a bit of mash as the guitar tone goes into noise? if you find a paticular FX or amp\speaker causing this just let me know I will do what I can to fix it??

Fretted Synth

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