(the product formerly known as) Epoch

[ThomasHelzle]

Heheheh - well the most Epoch-Al secret society ever...

Question: several pages ago you mentioned showing the actual sequencer. Would that be possible in the meantime? I'd be curious about that.

Another question: I love using fractal noises for midi generation in processing. Is that something that would be available in Epoch / Lua?
I find them much more musical than real Randomness and they are repeatable...

Sorry if I missed something.

Cheers!

Tom

[gckilla]

there's going to be a linux version for this as per your usual modus operandi, correct?

[colin@loomer]

several pages ago you mentioned showing the actual sequencer. Would that be possible in the meantime? I'd be curious about that.

I'm holding back on showing that at this moment because, well, it still has some placeholder art still: doesn't make for great screenshots, I'm afraid!

Another question: I love using fractal noises for midi generation in processing. Is that something that would be available in Epoch / Lua?

Oh yes, I imagine building a fractal noise script in Lua would be trivial. I'll see if I can get one built into the script library for launch, but if not, remind me afterwards and I'll see what I can do.

there's going to be a linux version for this as per your usual modus operandi, correct?

Yes, Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows. At release, there will be Audio Unit, VST, RTAS, and standalone apps (all 32-bit/64-bit where needed), and LV2 and AAX following - for Epoch, and all the other Loomer plug-ins - sometime after Epoch 1 and before Aspect 2.

[ThomasHelzle]

I downloaded some LUA-Perlin scripts already - looks easy enough if the performance works out.
For Audio I tend to use much larger tables though - I think my Usine-Addon has 20,000 - that may be a bit excessive here
So: Will there be a way to create plugins in C/C++ for Epoch

Just kidding.

All the best for the final stretch!

Cheers,

Tom

[jowen]

This thread reminds me a little of Bitwig and Cats, but with more time and less informations.
Do you plan to go to Musikmesse like Bitwig to Namm with a video or make a presentation like the new Sony Playstation 4 without any picture?

[abstractcats]

A nice Tangerine Dream cover.
The narrator says, he has Numerology file available for download for this project, he also say, "Numerology is the best MIDI sequencer ever made"...Really?

Epoch is coming! Numerology, stand back !

http://www.synthtv.com/2013/02/21/love- ... erds-only/

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[ChiTown24]

Hi Colin,
going back to earlier comments about CV signals being sent {especially with respect to compatible audio interfaces controlling real analogue gear}, and "steppiness" V "smoothness". Without going back to the posts I think you mentioned you'd use a filter to smooth the CV signals out ?

Anyway, just some food for thought but Andy from Cytomic {The Glue and The Drop} seems to have found a really nice smoothing algorithm that I've been meaning to mention to you. Without being an expert on the ins & outs of DSP, I'm not sure if this kind of algo might be useful to you for the purposes of Epoc control signals ?
Might be worth giving him a shout if it is, he's on public record helping other Devs out for their projects...

At any rate keep up the good work, looking forward to Epoch though I'm very patient for the sake of "getting things right" so take your time

It's not just the filter emulation in The Drop that I spent lots of time and effort on getting right. One of the coolest non-analog modelling bits of DSP I came up with is the smoothing algorithm. This turns stepped midi cc automation from even the most wobbly hands and smooths it in very musical and cool way that leaves the expression but removes the bumps. Here is the spectrogram of the a sine wave oscillator being controlled by 128 steps of a midi controller, you can clearly see and hear the clicks in the top plot that are removed from the bottom plot

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... start=1095
{talks about it half way down the page}

[colin@loomer]

this is going to have crossovers right?

That's the plan! Full disclosure: I'm not 100% sure if this'll make it to the table before Epoch v1. I'd certainly hope so*, (and just to be clear: basic linear plug-in hosting is definitely in for v1) but I'm sure (most) people would rather see more specialist features bumped if it means getting their hands on Epoch earlier. How's this then, Theo (and anyone else who'll hold off buying until this is done): if I don't get the full modular plug-in routing that you'd need for crossover-ing finished for v1, I will honour you the beta discount. If you decide to buy when this feature is implemented, even if this is after the end of the beta discount period, you can have it at beta pricing.

Any projected price? I am guessing (hoping) around 100 bucks.

The pricing is (honestly!) still undecided, but I'd say your figure is pretty much on-the-nose of what I anticipate for the beta price.

..."steppiness" V "smoothness"...

Thanks for the tip, ChiTown24. I think my CV-audio algorithms are actually OK, but it's certainly good to have a second option if they don't cut it in the final judgement.

* The actual plug-in hosting - ie: the hard part, is done, running solid and stably on Mac OS X, Windows, and even Linux. How best to seamlessly integrate it with the sequencing part of Epoch is what I'm still considering.

[HunterKiller]

Colin, my dream sequencer as far as hands on interface:

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[jensa]

Epoch will be so awesome in other regards so I personally don't need crossovers at version 1.0. But if it feels to Colin to be a major selling point it might be a good idea to hold off until it's done. Though it doesn't prevent going into public beta before.

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[ThomasHelzle]

Not much of a topic for me. I'd rather see Epoch coming out sooner instead.
There's always a 1.1 and selling points are just as valid and needed for that

Cheers,

Tom

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