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Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:18 am

Zephod wrote:No. I don't want to flood the internet even further with synthedit like synths that barely have reason to exist.

The whole power of Blok is that you can always easily edit the sound -and- the structure of the sound. If I'd export that to VST, I'd just be copying the whole of Blok

So.. no VST export feature.

+1000

Why should we export a VST synth to a VST plugin. Kind of stupid, or?

If you want to use an existing Blok synth/patch for a new patch just import that Blok synth/patch and that's it...

Jedinhopy · Post by **Jedinhopy** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 1:43 pm

I have tried both synthedit and synthmaker.
They are not userfriendly and easy fast as reaktor.

A reaktor 5 clone with vst export should do the trick.
Something inbetween synthedit reaktor.

TFF · Post by **TFF** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:58 am

Old thread, I know. But I just bought this today and I am so incredibly happy with it. The interface is clean, it's light on CPU, it sounds f**king great...

One of the things I really appreciate is that the fixed oscillators can be set in Hz...I like to make drones that sweep across large pitch ranges, and every other softsynth I've used the only way to do that was to transpose by semitones, giving it an ugly stepping sound.

So yeah. Really pleased with this purchase, and excited to see where things go from here.

anzoid · Post by **anzoid** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:01 pm

Is the BLOK project still alive?

Zephod · Post by **Zephod** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:04 pm

Yes!

but I was booked fulltime for clientwork for a long period...

Ive just started work on a new spline-based envelope to get myself going again!

Most sliders will go away -> the little balls will be draggable. The 4 main stage-params (adsr) + the amount will have modulation inputs.

Spline env allows for some really punchy sounds!

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:23 pm

Zephod wrote:Yes!

but I was booked fulltime for clientwork for a long period...

Ive just started work on a new spline-based envelope to get myself going again!

Most sliders will go away -> the little balls will be draggable. The 4 main stage-params (adsr) + the amount will have modulation inputs.

Spline env allows for some really punchy sounds!

Wow, that looks cool. When i get some time for it i'll check the latest updates for BLOK soon.

Ingo

anzoid · Post by **anzoid** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:46 pm

Looks very good! I'm trying the demo and it's proving to be very interesting.

Some questions if I may...

Is there ever going to be the possibility of using feedback on an oscillator? I.e. link it's output directly back to its pitch input? Or is there some means of doing so already?

And, currently the pitch of an osc can only be adjusted plus or minus an octave are there plans to extend this? Or, again, is there another way of doing this? I've tried just using a knob connected to pitch but as there's no visual feedback of what you're doing it's hard to get an accurate idea of where you are.

Thanks for your help!

KungKrille · Post by **KungKrille** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:49 pm

That looks interesting

Zephod · Post by **Zephod** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 7:18 pm

anzoid wrote:Is there ever going to be the possibility of using feedback on an oscillator?

Not yet.. due to the block based nature of the processing this would give some quite strange phasing effects - I've toyed a bit with the feature, but wasn't really happy with the interaction/sound so far.. I will revisit this in the future.

anzoid wrote:And, currently the pitch of an osc can only be adjusted plus or minus an octave

This is a bit of a legacy issue I'm affraid to say... There is a "sub oscillator" that goes 2 octaves deeper if you really need it. I will address this in an update at some point, but this will break old patches. (Id rather get rid of the subosc, and unify the pitch handling further so I can also allow stuff like unison mode across all types of oscillator)

Have fun!

anzoid · Post by **anzoid** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 7:38 pm

Zephod wrote:Not yet.. due to the block based nature of the processing this would give some quite strange phasing effects - I've toyed a bit with the feature, but wasn't really happy with the interaction/sound so far.. I will revisit this in the future.

Yeah, I guess it could make things awkward

My main interest (at least for the moment) is in FM synthesis. I'm going to be writing some magazine articles on the subject and was quite intrigued by what BLOK could do in that realm - I noticed there were already a couple of FM patches - but obviously feedback is not essential. I can see the amazing potential too for stuff other than FM

Though, that new envelope block is going to be wild

Zephod wrote:This is a bit of a legacy issue I'm affraid to say... There is a "sub oscillator" that goes 2 octaves deeper if you really need it. I will address this in an update at some point, but this will break old patches. (Id rather get rid of the subosc, and unify the pitch handling further so I can also allow stuff like unison mode across all types of oscillator)

I'd tried the Sub Osc and it certainly increases the range but for FM I was looking at going the other way - higher frequencies. I'll have to play around some more with adding a knob to the pitch input of the Osc and link it to a controller rather than using my mouse. I did notice with the knob that it acts kind of weird at the ends of its range. I'm actually running the Beta from your site, don't know of that makes a difference.

As an aside... are you looking for Beta testers?

Zephod wrote:Have fun!

I am!!

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:18 pm

The logical thing then would be to continue the discussion about [Bloc] in a thread that is already deveoted to it.

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:23 pm

Numanoid wrote:The logical thing then would be to continue the discussion about [Bloc] in a thread that is already deveoted to it.

Funny. I just posted about this thread in the other one (around 2 minutes before that new post here) and it seems one of the last posts here was also from me...

As already mentioned in that other thread this also contains the last post of Zephod, the dev of BLOK, at KVR.

Ingo

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:29 pm

anzoid wrote:Is the BLOK project still alive?

Zephod wrote:Yes!

but I was booked fulltime for clientwork for a long period...

Looks like the dev need to attend to his day job, and thus has little time for [Blok]

18 months since he posted that which I have quoted

todd_r · Post by **todd_r** » Sun Jan 27, 2013 6:03 pm

Anyone heard from him recently?

todd_r · Post by **todd_r** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 10:55 pm

Websites down