Dawesome Novum (A Granular Synth for Creative Sampling)

[Spitfire31]

Can't drag and drop the BASIC folder from Mac finder into the VST in Ableton. The VST window vanishes when clicking outside of Ableton. Is there a work around for D&D in Ableton? I seem to remember it's always been an issue.

It's not an issue at all, once you realise how to do it.
The method is to shrink the Live main window, so that you can place your Finder window visible in the 'gap' outside it, with the BASIC folder or audio file you want to drag visible.
You click in the Live window to re-focus it, then select the Finder file by clicking/holding it and immediately dragging it to Novum.
I do it automatically all the time.
HTH

[Boy Wonder]

^That's not bad. Only requires a few steps like Cubase, but you do have to know what those steps are otherwise it turns into an exercise in frustration. Studio One, OTOH, doesn't have this issue. There's no pre-learning necessary as you simply pull up Novum, pull up the drive with the BASICS folder, and drag the folder to Novum which had remained visible to begin with.

In any event, I did write to the dev and he promised that the next iteration of Novum will have a spot in the drop-down menu where you can simply point to where you put BASICS.

[Muziksculp]

One detail about NOVUM, I'm still not clear about.

When it imports a sample, it creates 6 layers for it, what do these 6 layers represent, or how do they differ from each other, basically I'm curious what the NOVUM engine uses as criteria to separate a sound into 6 distinct layers ?

[Spitfire31]

The manual and Peter V's introduction video are a good clarifiers:

[fireapplered]

Can't drag and drop the BASIC folder from Mac finder into the VST in Ableton. The VST window vanishes when clicking outside of Ableton. Is there a work around for D&D in Ableton? I seem to remember it's always been an issue.

It's not an issue at all, once you realise how to do it.
The method is to shrink the Live main window, so that you can place your Finder window visible in the 'gap' outside it, with the BASIC folder or audio file you want to drag visible.
You click in the Live window to re-focus it, then select the Finder file by clicking/holding it and immediately dragging it to Novum.
I do it automatically all the time.
HTH

Woah... mind blown. Thank you very much, Spitfire31.

[fireapplered]

Is anyone finding this software really quiet? Even with loud samples and sources and the gain at 100% some patches barely seem hit-18db for me.

[blacklightmartin]

Can't drag and drop the BASIC folder from Mac finder into the VST in Ableton. The VST window vanishes when clicking outside of Ableton. Is there a work around for D&D in Ableton? I seem to remember it's always been an issue.

It's not an issue at all, once you realise how to do it.
The method is to shrink the Live main window, so that you can place your Finder window visible in the 'gap' outside it, with the BASIC folder or audio file you want to drag visible.
You click in the Live window to re-focus it, then select the Finder file by clicking/holding it and immediately dragging it to Novum.
I do it automatically all the time.
HTH

Woah... mind blown. Thank you very much, Spitfire31.

Hey all,

This is actually even easier than Spitfire31 described! There's no need to resize Live's window in order to do this:

So, you have Ableton Live open with a track containing Novum, maybe even in a fully zoomed window. Novum is open (its UI is visible). What you do to load a sample is:

- Switch to Finder (I am assuming here you already have a Finder window with your sample open)
- Drag the sample you want somewhere over Live! Yes, Novum will not be shown any more once you have switched to the Finder, but fear not - as long as you somehow hit the Live window, everything is going to be fine. Do not release the mouse/sample yet!
- Wait a split second (maybe a tad more ), and Novum will reappear.
- Move sample over to Novum's sample area and let go of your mouse.

At least this is how it works over here (MacBook Pro, Monterey 12.4) - give it a try!

[Caine123]

the JRR deal is really awesome, i find it pretty lame from Tracktion to offer a loyalty discount for Abyss users and a retailer is even cheaper. loyalty lol

[Neon Breath]

After demo'ing for 2 days, I kind agree with some of you here.

Novum is indeed very powerful and stunning, but yeah it still feels a bit rough in some areas. Like having independent filter instead of a global one, same for Pitch in the SYN section, doesn't make sense to not be able to have different pitch for each layers, better FX routing on individual layers, etc. Some random features could be useful too, like generating random envelopes or random timbre flower colors.

But it's just been released so I guess (well I hope, no idea if Dawsome are keeping their plugins updated on regular basis) it will get updates with improvements. Hopefully... Gonna still demo with my entire 90 days demo licence to make sure I like it and it's not just an honeymoon phase, but it's definitely one hell of an ambient - experimental machine!

[chagzuki]

The Tracktion download manager 'installs' the presets into the, er, downloads folder on Mac OS. When I initialise Novum in Logic the path to the presets is missing, so I direct it to the folder, and then it tells me the samples are missing. But the preset content is all in .novum file format, so how can the samples be missing?

[SLiC]

One detail about NOVUM, I'm still not clear about.

When it imports a sample, it creates 6 layers for it, what do these 6 layers represent, or how do they differ from each other, basically I'm curious what the NOVUM engine uses as criteria to separate a sound into 6 distinct layers ?

Looks like it creates separate envelopes based on transient or frequency detection…splits up drum loops nicely.

[danielh02]

After demo'ing for 2 days, I kind agree with some of you here.

Novum is indeed very powerful and stunning, but yeah it still feels a bit rough in some areas. Like having independent filter instead of a global one, same for Pitch in the SYN section, doesn't make sense to not be able to have different pitch for each layers, better FX routing on individual layers, etc. Some random features could be useful too, like generating random envelopes or random timbre flower colors.

But it's just been released so I guess (well I hope, no idea if Dawsome are keeping their plugins updated on regular basis) it will get updates with improvements. Hopefully... Gonna still demo with my entire 90 days demo licence to make sure I like it and it's not just an honeymoon phase, but it's definitely one hell of an ambient - experimental machine!

The developer has been actively responding to input on the VI-Control forums, and has already fixed/implemented some users' feedback (though no patch released yet).

[Spitfire31]

Can't drag and drop the BASIC folder from Mac finder into the VST in Ableton. The VST window vanishes when clicking outside of Ableton. Is there a work around for D&D in Ableton? I seem to remember it's always been an issue.

It's not an issue at all, once you realise how to do it.
The method is to shrink the Live main window, so that you can place your Finder window visible in the 'gap' outside it, with the BASIC folder or audio file you want to drag visible.
You click in the Live window to re-focus it, then select the Finder file by clicking/holding it and immediately dragging it to Novum.
I do it automatically all the time.
HTH

Woah... mind blown. Thank you very much, Spitfire31.

Hey all,

This is actually even easier than Spitfire31 described! There's no need to resize Live's window in order to do this:

So, you have Ableton Live open with a track containing Novum, maybe even in a fully zoomed window. Novum is open (its UI is visible). What you do to load a sample is:

- Switch to Finder (I am assuming here you already have a Finder window with your sample open)
- Drag the sample you want somewhere over Live! Yes, Novum will not be shown any more once you have switched to the Finder, but fear not - as long as you somehow hit the Live window, everything is going to be fine. Do not release the mouse/sample yet!
- Wait a split second (maybe a tad more ), and Novum will reappear.
- Move sample over to Novum's sample area and let go of your mouse.

At least this is how it works over here (MacBook Pro, Monterey 12.4) - give it a try!

Good catch! Simpler still. Works fine in Mojave, too…

[vurt]

been responding here too

[Sampleconstruct]

After demo'ing for 2 days, I kind agree with some of you here.

Novum is indeed very powerful and stunning, but yeah it still feels a bit rough in some areas. Like having independent filter instead of a global one, same for Pitch in the SYN section, doesn't make sense to not be able to have different pitch for each layers, better FX routing on individual layers, etc. Some random features could be useful too, like generating random envelopes or random timbre flower colors.

But it's just been released so I guess (well I hope, no idea if Dawsome are keeping their plugins updated on regular basis) it will get updates with improvements. Hopefully... Gonna still demo with my entire 90 days demo licence to make sure I like it and it's not just an honeymoon phase, but it's definitely one hell of an ambient - experimental machine!

There's individual pitch/gain/panning for each layer, just click on the unlock button next to each parameter name.