KVR Audio

mcaitch · Post by **mcaitch** » Tue Jun 02, 2015 10:25 pm

Actually, Mantra Evo sounds quite interesting after a quick try-out. Has this distorted guitar touch. To run it, I just installed Cubase AI 7 that came with my UR22 on the Windows partition of my Macbook. Maybe I will also try Tracktion 4 later on but don't know, if I'll find enough motivation to work with those.

@Parduz: Good news! A distortion effect is included in this one

Parduz · Post by **Parduz** » Tue Jun 02, 2015 10:56 pm

mcaitch wrote:@Parduz: Good news! A distortion effect is included in this one

downloading it right now.... let see what it does

puresignal · Post by **puresignal** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 12:01 am

Is it my imagination, or does the amp env on this have a MAXIMUM of a one-second decay? That makes it nearly unusable. Has anyone figured out what's up with that?

bjporter · Post by **bjporter** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 12:23 am

puresignal wrote:Is it my imagination, or does the amp env on this have a MAXIMUM of a one-second decay? That makes it nearly unusable. Has anyone figured out what's up with that?

What are you trying to do? Are you trying to make a traditional tune?! This is Mantra Evo!

puresignal · Post by **puresignal** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 12:32 am

Yes, I was hoping for a piano-ish sound. Looks like the only way to get even close would be to play everything staccato and use the release (which works more as expected) instead of the decay, but then all notes will be the same length. Ouch!

Maybe better to think organ-ish!

sleepymuse · Post by **sleepymuse** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 1:05 am

Hello all
This looks interesting, might participate this month.
Some concerns/questions:
-Are we allowed to bounce the sound and mess with it that way? (ie chop it up, reverse it, etc)
-Are we allowed to do heavy external filtering? (ie messing with an EQ a whole bunch, using resonances made outside of the synth itself, etc)

I guess that's it for now, good luck to everyone participating!!!

bjporter · Post by **bjporter** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 1:32 am

sleepymuse wrote: -Are we allowed to bounce the sound and mess with it that way? (ie chop it up, reverse it, etc)

You may bounce, bot not chop it up, reverse, pitch, etc.

sleepymuse wrote: -Are we allowed to do heavy external filtering? (ie messing with an EQ a whole bunch, using resonances made outside of the synth itself, etc)

Kinda sorta, just use your best judgement not to overdo it

sleepymuse wrote:

Good night! :

gwoodland · Post by **gwoodland** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 12:38 pm

Hmmm... I cannot run it.

Do I need something like synth edit to run it ?

There is error message on loading VST:

Can't load SE Plugin: blabla... \Rectangle.sem

I don't see such file anywhere.

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 12:41 pm

gwoodland wrote:Hmmm... I cannot run it.

Do I need something like synth edit to run it ?

There is error message on loading VST:

Can't load SE Plugin: blabla... \Rectangle.sem

I don't see such file anywhere.

It's a 32 bit plug. Are you running 64 or 32 bit?

gwoodland · Post by **gwoodland** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 12:48 pm

32-bit I suppose. I downloaded Studio One 2 32-bit, then run it from Program Files (x86) so I hope that it's running in 32-bit. I am former OSX user, so I don't really understand that windows thing

that much.

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 1:00 pm

gwoodland wrote:32-bit I suppose. I downloaded Studio One 2 32-bit, then run it from Program Files (x86) so I hope that it's running in 32-bit. I am former OSX user, so I don't really understand that windows thing that much.

Go to your control panel and look and see what version of Windows you're running. Go to Control Panel, System and look at the system type.

gwoodland · Post by **gwoodland** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 1:11 pm

I am running 64-bit Windows 8, but I thought when I run x86 version of S1 it's running in 32-bit ? I need 32-bit Windows installed ? Or I can try some bridge then...

MTLE · Post by **MTLE** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 1:17 pm

gwoodland wrote:I am running 64-bit Windows 8, but I thought when I run x86 version of S1 it's running in 32-bit ? I need 32-bit Windows installed ? Or I can try some bridge then...

Works on 64-bit Win bridged. Look at your folder of plugin. There needs to be a subfolder "Mantra Evo" containing the Rectagle.sem and some other files. If not, please install plugin again. Make sure .dll file and subfolders are there ...

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 1:19 pm

gwoodland wrote:I am running 64-bit Windows 8, but I thought when I run x86 version of S1 it's running in 32-bit ? I need 32-bit Windows installed ? Or I can try some bridge then...

This could be a compound problem. For starters, I'm finding a few plugs are having problems in Windows 8 most likely because they haven't been tested properly on that OS. I know 8 is technically "old" now but most people hate it and have gone back to 7. I don't even dare upgrade to 8 and I'm not even sure I want to go to 10 when it comes out.

As for the 32/64 bit thing, if your OS is 64 bit, you're likely to run into problems running a 32 bit plug. You can try bridging it but honestly, I don't think it's going to matter. I can't get this thing to work "properly" in 3 different DAWs with and without bridging so I'm not even going to attempt an OSC this month.

Try bridging it and see if it helps.

Just don't hold your breath.

MTLE · Post by **MTLE** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 1:27 pm

wagtunes wrote:
gwoodland wrote:I am running 64-bit Windows 8, but I thought when I run x86 version of S1 it's running in 32-bit ? I need 32-bit Windows installed ? Or I can try some bridge then...
This could be a compound problem. For starters, I'm finding a few plugs are having problems in Windows 8 most likely because they haven't been tested properly on that OS. I know 8 is technically "old" now but most people hate it and have gone back to 7. I don't even dare upgrade to 8 and I'm not even sure I want to go to 10 when it comes out.

As for the 32/64 bit thing, if your OS is 64 bit, you're likely to run into problems running a 32 bit plug. You can try bridging it but honestly, I don't think it's going to matter. I can't get this thing to work "properly" in 3 different DAWs with and without bridging so I'm not even going to attempt an OSC this month.

Try bridging it and see if it helps.

Just don't hold your breath.

Don't know how complicated is bridging on other hosts. I just installed plugin (Win7 64bit), started Reaper, selected plugin, works. Same procedure as on WinXP PC

One Synth Challenge #76: Mantra Evo (Syntax Project Wins!)