KVR Audio

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 2:35 pm

Full Bucket wrote:Yum yum, looks nice! Coffee-Caramel Crème Brûlée anyone?

+1 very nice

This is the kind of colors that reminds me of the '70's so they fit a vintage synth

Didn't everybody have this kind of wallpaper in the '70s ?

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 3:00 pm

Actually Verdana ain't that bad either.

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 3:05 pm

BTW Björn, I'm still getting clicks when changing poles during playing in v1.0.2... They seem a bit less loud than before, but still exist.

Also, could there be an option in the "..." dropdown to always show popups when tweaking the knobs? I find it a bit hard to home in to a certain value for Interval and Spread knobs...

Full Bucket · Post by **Full Bucket** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 3:34 pm

EvilDragon wrote:BTW Björn, I'm still getting clicks when changing poles during playing in v1.0.2... They seem a bit less loud than before, but still exist.

This is caused by the discontinuity introduced when switching between the signals of the different poles (different waveforms and phases here... blabla Star Trek tech talk nonsense). It could be solved by some "internal automated crossfading"... however, the original idea was not to have this parameter "modulated". Anyway, I have some ideas that I'm already discussing with CW, so there is hope.

BTW the issue fixed in 1.0.2 was that the whole filter would have been reset when switching poles

stupid...

Cheers, Björn

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 3:39 pm

Right - I can understand the reason, seems like you don't have all 4 poles running concurrently then crossfade between them to save some CPU, so when changing poles, you have to change the parameters of the filter, which in turn creates discontinuities.

Is the filter in Ragnarok circuit modelled, or just a regular biquad model? I wonder if it were a 4-pole ladder that was circuit modelled, you could then (I assume) basically tap out from every pole, and it'd work smoothly without any discontinuities. Like the pole mixing feature on the recent Moog Voyager, Little Phatty, Sub Phatty, etc.

Don't consider this as a feature request (circuit modelled etc.), just stirring up some discussion

Full Bucket · Post by **Full Bucket** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 4:01 pm

EvilDragon wrote:Right - I can understand the reason, seems like you don't have all 4 poles running concurrently then crossfade between them to save some CPU, so when changing poles, you have to change the parameters of the filter, which in turn creates discontinuities.

Is the filter in Ragnarok circuit modelled, or just a regular biquad model? I wonder if it were a 4-pole ladder that was circuit modelled, you could then (I assume) basically tap out from every pole, and it'd work smoothly without any discontinuities. Like the pole mixing feature on the recent Moog Voyager, Little Phatty, Sub Phatty, etc.

Don't consider this as a feature request (circuit modelled etc.), just stirring up some discussion

It is indeed a ladder architecture (with zero delay feedback and nonlinearities and bells & whistles) where the intermediate stage outputs are used as "pole" outputs. But still you have different wave forms and thus "switching discontinuities" between the signals.

Cheers, Björn

crimsonwarlock · Post by **crimsonwarlock** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 4:54 pm

EvilDragon wrote:Actually Verdana ain't that bad either.

That did the trick, now looking at it the eye strain seems to be gone. Didn't look too long to it though, but it's definitely MUCH better

Still, not that fond of brown in a GUI

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 4:56 pm

This synth deserves to have a 1 synth challenge

DrewDale · Post by **DrewDale** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 9:13 pm

See a couple of posts below here for edited skin.

Maomoondog · Post by **Maomoondog** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 10:05 am

I like all Three variations posted here, good work.

layzer · Post by **layzer** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 1:48 pm

eidenk wrote:There is a small update for the blue skin.

http://www.datafilehost.com/d/226c7e3f

and this is the one i'll use. thanks and nice work!

DrewDale · Post by **DrewDale** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 7:34 pm

Updated the text on the label panels. Link here for the re make.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8apm2amwmn4lo ... k.zip?dl=0

ras.s · Post by **ras.s** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 4:17 pm

I think this is a mighty nice synthesizer. In particular, I like the envelope mode switch, the buttons for oscillators, intervals and multi voice and the equalizer, which makes it easy to tone the voice. Extra bonus are the ADSR/AD switches and the good manual.

Very well done, and feels quite in line with rest of Full Bucket goodness, top notch quality. Thanks for giving it for free. I think perhaps you should consider making a commercial version (though cheap for poor folks like myself) with more modulation options and the ability to change the skin for those who need that. It's very good as it is already, though. Few things I've noticed are that the tooltips don't show in EnergyXT and that there can be stuck notes when changing patches.

Here's a bank of few patches I've cooked up so far: https://app.box.com/s/hhhpq8ltvto6z313w8cv

DrewDale · Post by **DrewDale** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 4:37 pm

Nice patches ras.s

Here is a link to some I have made -
http://www.kvraudio.com/product/ragnar- ... /downloads

ras.s · Post by **ras.s** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 5:23 pm

Thanks and thanks. ;) It's a nice synthesizer, a keeper.

Something is cooking: RAGNAROK - RELEASED !!!