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bobsled · Post by **bobsled** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 12:05 am

Tried again with ASIO4ALL, same results.

Darn it.

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stefancrs wrote:A good four months later it's time for an update...

The EQ has been subjected to a variety if changes, so I ask for your forgiveness if I'm forgetting any of them.

I wouldn't any longer class this purely as an EQ, but it still is one. It's just that it's also turned into a mad multi-stage distortion unit. I would really appreciate if some guitarist would try it out on electric guitars, I myself prefer using feedback mode 2 and various amounts of saturation, but I don't have a guitar to try it out on

Here's what it currently look like:

Changes and fixes:
- bigger GUI
- saturation indicators on each band
- two feedback modes, handle with care! self-oscillation often occur!
- parameter smoothing (should get rid of those strange artefacts some of you where getting when tweaking knobs)
- input/output gain, to keep saturated and/or heavy boosted sounds under control

Let me know of any issues or suggestions you might have. And sorry for still not providing numerical input for the EQ controls!

Here's the DLL

stefancrs · Post by **stefancrs** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:19 am

Hm ok, thanks for trying it out and reporting what went wrong. Will need looking into, I have tried it in eXT on a P4 myself without any issues so it can't be the host/cpu (unfortunately, would've made things easier for us

).

bobsled · Post by **bobsled** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 7:02 am

I don't know why, I don't know how, but opening this EQ in Usine was no problem at all. Played with it awhile, then opened it in eXT. Again, no problem.

go-go-go SynthMaker

jens · Post by **jens** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 7:26 am

I tried it on guitar and it damned sure can sound nice

, but unfortunately after a while the cpu-usage starts to build up until it maxes out...

(eXT)

memory leak or something?

fwiw: I played a bit of funk guitar on which I often like to use moderate saturation - I probably wouldn't use it for crunch or distortion sounds though...

bobsled · Post by **bobsled** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 7:38 am

jens, did the cpu build-up occur while the eq was idle?
And did cpu level go down right after sound started going through it again?

stefancrs · Post by **stefancrs** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 7:47 am

Exactly the kind of questions I'd ask

And what CPU jens? And thanks for trying it out on some guitar stuff!

And bobsled, that's just odd, with it opening up fine in eXT afterwards!

MRT · Post by **MRT** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 7:57 am

Getting some weird results here also. P4-Ext Eq19 freezes things up. Seems to depend on the patch selected also, the thing can go into oscillation and feedback on its own.

Patch one selected cpu will build up when idle and drop down with input.

HTH

stefancrs · Post by **stefancrs** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:07 am

Ok, then we got a denormal issue. Easily fixed for the next update, thanks for the find!
Oscillation and feedback is by design, just keep feedback all the way down if you never want self-oscillation

jens · Post by **jens** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:55 am

bobsled wrote:jens, did the cpu build-up occur while the eq was idle?
And did cpu level go down right after sound started going through it again?

no, and hence no

jens · Post by **jens** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:55 am

stefancrs wrote: And what CPU jens?

XP2600+ so no denormals probably...

stefancrs · Post by **stefancrs** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:58 am

jens wrote:
stefancrs wrote: And what CPU jens?
XP2600+ so no denormals probably...

Damn you and your fiendish ways! I'll do some more extensive testing myself to see if something similar happens on my computer. About how long did it run before you started notice the build-up?

Btw, still seems like denormals in MRT's case though.

jens · Post by **jens** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:08 am

stefancrs wrote: About how long did it run before you started notice the build-up?

I guess for about five minutes or so (eXT playing in a loop)

stefancrs · Post by **stefancrs** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:10 am

Ok, just wanted a reference, thanks!

jens · Post by **jens** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:23 am

weird - it's definitely settings-dependant - can't reproduce it right now anymore...

(had deleted the plugin from the track without saving the settings first *ouch*)

I guess it has to do with the saturation/feedback settings

jens · Post by **jens** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:38 am

nope - I was wrong - I had it happening again - it only happens when (probably at least) two instances are running...

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