KVR Audio

paterpeter · Post by **paterpeter** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 8:12 pm

There's the My KVR feature on this site which informs you about new versions of exactly those plugins you own. While it's not always super fast, it's worth a look for sure.

frozenjazz · Post by **frozenjazz** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 8:16 pm

fisherKing wrote:easy enough to check here, or the spire facebook page (or just the reveal-sound site...).

it WOULD be great if ALL developers sent email notices to plugin owners....

Hm, I try to regularly check updates for all the VST/VSTis I bought...
But the pace is fast, when I asked my question on this forum, a v1.03 had just appeared (I bought spire yesterday, and it was v1.02), and now we already have v104

But it would be way easier if there was an email, or if the software would connect itself to check for updates (don't know if a VST can connect to the internet, though?).

Phase47 · Post by **Phase47** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 8:35 pm

Back on topic: where does the 1.04 update sit on the sonic quality meter?

frozenjazz · Post by **frozenjazz** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 9:03 pm

Difference does not strike me with 1.04.
And Cpu usage is not less. Playing the same rich sustained chords, peaking at 14.5% CPU, was 14.4 with 1.02.

Anonym32339 · Post by **Anonym32339** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 9:26 pm

vega555 wrote:Spire Synthesizer update to v1.0.4
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- Fixed: Issue with license validation

Awesome! Thanks!

zvenx · Post by **zvenx** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 9:57 pm

I don't think 1.04 from 1.02 was suppose to bring less cpu usage.
I am hoping that one of the 1.03 fixes is what caused some ppl to have different sound in some patches and the 1.04 well as it says.
rsp

Ameyah Audio · Post by **Ameyah Audio** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 11:47 pm

thanks for the updates again!
Feature Request
as i was programming along i missed a noise waveform in the LFOs - i totally need one, because the SH and SG waveforms i have there arent enough random for me.

thats for the moment, still working hard to make presets and i dont still love spire - good job on it.
now upgrading from 1.0.3 to 1.0.4

Muziksculp · Post by **Muziksculp** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 3:36 am

Hi,

Updated to version 1.04 all went smooth & it sounds great !

Thanks for the speedy updates.

(FR) : I would like to see an improved browser in a future update. i.e. be able to have multiple banks loaded, instead of having to load one bank at a time, also some category, filtering, favorites, criteria, ...etc. browsing features would be very cool.

SPIRE Rocks !

Cheeeeeers
Muziksculp

zvenx · Post by **zvenx** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 3:45 am

thanks
1.04 fixed this for me.
rsp

zvenx wrote:hmmmm.....I am having problem with this version in Cubase 7......Cubase crashed whilst starting up after I installed this version. Then started up on restart but Spire doesn't appear in the vst list, did an update in the Plugin Information window and Cubase crashed.

Using 10.7.5
Cuase 7 32 bit
4GB RAM

rsp

edit: Just tried it in NI Maschine on the same computer, and crashville of Maschine when I try to load an instance of Spire.

rsp

piastro · Post by **piastro** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 9:45 am

#preset browser

I personally ended with saving all bank presets as individual plugin settings in Logic...
Logic's browser is far more comfortable for now, because it has

1. midi button can be mapped for next/previous plugin setting
2. all presets can be organised by category (sq/arp/pd/pl .. etc)
3. I found few repeating presets across the banks

Ameyah Audio · Post by **Ameyah Audio** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 2:11 pm

frozenjazz wrote:But it would be way easier if there was an email, or if the software would connect itself to check for updates (don't know if a VST can connect to the internet, though?).

ohh please no auto updates. i hate that - i prefer to keep a setup as backup on my backup HDD and also to manually update.

zvenx · Post by **zvenx** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 2:19 pm

an option to or not to auto update would fix that no?
rsp

4damind · Post by **4damind** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 2:35 pm

They should setup a mailing-list for their customers to inform about updates and stuff. It's not expensive and there are some well known providers like Mailchimp which are used by a lot companies.

Ameyah Audio · Post by **Ameyah Audio** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 2:46 pm

4damind wrote:They should setup a mailing-list for their customers to inform about updates and stuff. It's not expensive and there are some well known providers like Mailchimp which are used by a lot companies.

yes thats right and also a developer forum here at kvraudio.com(would make things easier, because its hard to find that topic here and its also not to great for overview, no topic for example about feature requests or something.)
yes turn on/off auto update is a good idea.

frozenjazz · Post by **frozenjazz** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 3:22 pm

Trancestorm wrote:
frozenjazz wrote:But it would be way easier if there was an email, or if the software would connect itself to check for updates (don't know if a VST can connect to the internet, though?).
ohh please no auto updates. i hate that - i prefer to keep a setup as backup on my backup HDD and also to manually update.

So do I!! I will never ever activate any kind of autoupdate!
I wrote "check for updates"

Not install them automatically. The way Reaper does, for instance.

As for the mailing list, it is simply strange... to download most of the demos/trial/free stuff, you need to enter an email address, or to register somewhere...

Ok I guess I'll simply like their FB page, it seems they update it for each release, which is nice.