Repro-5 public beta (Repro V1.1)

[Urs]

So far I did a few hours test in FL Studio 12 and a few hours in Studio One 3. In FL Studio I came across hanging notes one time, but I experienced the same thing with Hive. It is only when I use the mouse to play notes on the virtual keyboard, and it is only in FL Studio. Besides from that I didn't notice anything worth reporting.

I made a Japanese Koto sound with Repro-5 that really took me by surprise. Sounds awesome

Click the note to release it. A double click sets a note in "hold mode" so that you can make noise with just a mouse and tweak parameters thereafter. A click un-holds that note.

[ATN69]

So far I did a few hours test in FL Studio 12 and a few hours in Studio One 3. In FL Studio I came across hanging notes one time, but I experienced the same thing with Hive. It is only when I use the mouse to play notes on the virtual keyboard, and it is only in FL Studio. Besides from that I didn't notice anything worth reporting.

I made a Japanese Koto sound with Repro-5 that really took me by surprise. Sounds awesome

Click the note to release it. A double click sets a note in "hold mode" so that you can make noise with just a mouse and tweak parameters thereafter. A click un-holds that note.

Ohh, I see. So this is a function I was not aware about. Thanks for clearing this up for me

[onathanj]

Spent 3 hours with it yesterday. Made some presets and ended up with a demo (mostly improvised playing).

I was able to use 15-20 instances in multicore on my mac pro 12 core (2x3,46).

[Spirit2017]

Where are the factory patches from the past?

[surreal]

Does this run on Win xp?

I get a runtime error just trying to install on my win xp machine

"Cannot Import dll: <utf8> C:\docume~1\studio\ etc etc

We had to leave XP behind a bit more than a year ago, when we upgraded our development environment. Circumstances have made it very tricky to keep up with latest developments and at the same time maintain backward compatibility.

I understand that, but I can confirm that it installed on my Win 7 perfect and on my Intel i7-4790k processor Repro 5 ran like a dream.
The mc switch added 2-5% overhead on the bass patches and the PC ran more effectively on the mc off. On the pads the mc setting only made a slight differance 15-20% when enabled. I generally found my processor ran more effectively with mc disabled.
The core bridge on my Pc is referd to as devil's canyon. My daw is sonar 8.5 pro. The bass presets are fantastic! Generally the HQ option did not add a really audable differance to most of the presets. My audio interface is Steinberg ur22. Overall this is a very well done pre- release. I will ask Father Christmas to put it in my stocking!

[mclstr]

Works great on Bitwig Linux.

The sound brings back memories of the first time I played a p5.
Of course this has a lot more to offer. Just digging into the manual now.

Thanks big time for the Linux version!!!!

[spacepluk]

I had to tweak my setup a little bit to get rid of the xruns (linux-rt-bfq and disable cpu-scaling) but now it's running great on my laptop with i7-6700HQ.

I see that DSP usage on Bitwig goes up quite a bit when I enable MC. And on my machine I get better results when using 8 threads (number of logic cores).



Well, and the sound is just unreal.
I'm loving this synth!

Thank you!!

[fluffy_little_something]

I noticed that like Diva, albeit not as pronounced, Repro keeps swallowing CPU cycles long after the sound has become inaudible. The longer the env release times, the longer that shadow signal lasts, up to 80 secs seconds with release times set to max, according to the task manager CPU monitor. But even with env release values of 90 the shadow signal is still 25 secs or so.
Since longer release is often used with string pads and sounds like that, the wasted CPU load can add up quickly when playing chords.

Also, what is the point of up to 8 voices building up when playing the same note again and again? Wouldn't a 2 or 3-voice limit for one and the same note be enough? (1 would mean a retrigger, I suppose, and is thus not enough.)

Occasionally I hear isolated crackles despite the CPU load being just 30% or so. And it is far away from the previous or next demo noise.

[Mutant]

Where are the factory patches from the past?

Yeah, would be nice to have these.

[fluffy_little_something]

Interesting, the MC feature does reduce the load somewhat, albeit by only about 10% of the non-MC load. In Diva switching on the multi-core support makes my DAW overload immediately, so the one in Repro at least seems to work the way it should

Yesterday I tried it on the MacBook Pro, and the CPU drop was about 20% across 4 cores - not the huge and glorious 75% drop I got on on the Windows i7. Interesting.

Maybe it has to do with the number of cores. My CPU also has 4 physical cores (8 threads).
How many cores does your i7 have?

[beely]

Also, what is the point of up to 8 voices building up when playing the same note again and again? Wouldn't a 2 or 3-voice limit for one and the same note be enough? (1 would mean a retrigger, I suppose, and is thus not enough.)

I suppose the behaviour is the same as the hardware - play another note (even the same note), one existing voice is already sounding, so the voice allocator will allocate a new voice, and so on, up to the polyphony max, where the oldest gets stolen.

[u-he-william]

Also, what is the point of up to 8 voices building up when playing the same note again and again? Wouldn't a 2 or 3-voice limit for one and the same note be enough? (1 would mean a retrigger, I suppose, and is thus not enough.)

I suppose the behaviour is the same as the hardware - play another note (even the same note), one existing voice is already sounding, so the voice allocator will allocate a new voice, and so on, up to the polyphony max, where the oldest gets stolen.

That behavior can be changed by flipping the "reallocation"-switch in the tweak page. I guess it's supposed to mimic a piano or something, where every note is bound to one "voice". I actually like the idea but we had different opinions in house, which is why we added the switch.

[aMUSEd]

Where are the factory patches from the past?

Yeah, would be nice to have these.

Rather than someone do them by hand might be best just to wait for sysex import

[Greggers]

I believe Ingo Weidner converted factory patches of Prophet-5 for Repro-1, didn't he? I'm not sure if they work for Repro-5, though.

[patstro]

Also with the release of the Repro 1 beta... back in time, we also see here that the effect rack in Repro-5 is not in sequential order compared with the on/off buttons for some presets...... 


EDIT My fault after 1 year I now discovered ..it is a chain you can move the buttons........ :):) Sorry

(But why are stompbox images not moving....but OK......_)