Arturia giving away the new Filter MS-20!!!

[vurt]

Similar experience on Mac. If you kill their background process, their plugins will not load. I don't know they actually phone home but they require their agent for DRM.

According to the activity at the Firewall here the agent.exe is phoning home.

Arturia's plugins are some of the slowest to load of any that I own so maybe it's the "open the agent.exe/phone home" process that's causing the delay.

Looks like the Agent also runs as a background process (on Win 10):

Arturia 122122-2.png

Doesn't run here.

Runs here every time on two systems. It's not like we have different versions of the software.

This system from two minutes ago:


Arturia 122122-3.png

check in settings, if auto check for updates is checked?

[chk071]

Similar experience on Mac. If you kill their background process, their plugins will not load. I don't know they actually phone home but they require their agent for DRM.

According to the activity at the Firewall here the agent.exe is phoning home.

Arturia's plugins are some of the slowest to load of any that I own so maybe it's the "open the agent.exe/phone home" process that's causing the delay.

Looks like the Agent also runs as a background process (on Win 10):

Arturia 122122-2.png

Doesn't run here.

Runs here every time on two systems. It's not like we have different versions of the software.

This system from two minutes ago:


Arturia 122122-3.png


For the record I don't have anything against the ASC, I'm just pointing out what happens here.

Edit: Ok, just checked, and the Arturia Software Center Agent shows up when I start ASC, and is still running when I close it, but only for a minute or so. Then it's gone. And, it's definitely not started when I boot the machine.

No idea what it does. Maybe checking for updates, as vurt wrote.

[Teksonik]

Edit: Ok, just checked, and the Arturia Software Center Agent shows up when I start ASC, and is still running when I close it, but only for a minute or so. Then it's gone. And, it's definitely not started when I boot the machine.

No idea what it does. Maybe checking for updates, as vurt wrote.

Here the agent.exe stays as a running process as long as the plugin is open in a DAW. When the DAW is shut down the agent closes in a few seconds or so.

It's still running here after taking that screenshot because I still have Cakewalk open.

As I wrote earlier I commend Arturia for not making it run at startup like:

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N.I. and Waves see fit to do (even though I don't own any N.I. hardware)


Again I don't have a problem with the ASC, just trying to answer the question posed a few pages back.

[raiderpdog]

Thanks very much for this, Arturia. Glad to have it.

[VitaminD]

i should of course also say thanks, it's nice to be appreciated

but, as much as i do try not to get in to arguments and will just mess about tryna calm shit, im not perfect, and like anybody else, i get a bit "attached" at times to an argument
we're all only human (except bones who is a cyborg from the future)

97,620 posts ago, did you have any idea you'd become somewhat of a voice of reason and calm in such a community?

[Held]

You can download every Arturia plugin here: https://www.arturia.com/support/downloads&manuals
There's no need to install the Arturia Software Center. That's just for convenience if you have more than one plugin and to keep everything up to date.

[VitaminD]

Oh and this filter is fantastic!! It is not even close to just being a simple filter.

It has a very creative, robust design. Half knob is LP, the other half is HP which can be controlled by their own individual subfilter controls. Then, if you click the Advanced label, you get an Envelope Follower, Step Sequencer, and a 'Function Generator' (LFO) which can all be mapped to any control on the GUI. Both positive and negative values. The LFO syncs all the way out to 8/1 and in to 1/32nd.

Then it has a distortion section separate from the filter itself that has its own subfilter section and a submix control.

You can move the Distortion before or after the Filter, control how much modulation is used on master out, basic mix, and a master out control too.

It's such a creamy, beefy filter too. Sounds really nice. At lower amounts it can really thicken. It could be used in other creative ways I'm sure. Such as using the LFO to gate the master volume or the cutoff and use as a trancegate or stutter effect.

Simple filter my hiney!

[gentleclockdivider]

Oh and this filter is fantastic!! It is not even close to just being a simple filter.

It has a very creative, robust design. Half knob is LP, the other half is HP which can be controlled by their own individual subfilter controls.

What halve knob is hp-lp ?
It’s just like the ms 20, a 1p highpass into a 2p lowpass , both having their dedicated freq-res controls
An offset knob controlling both filters , which you would normally use the modwheel for on an ms 20 •

[discogsaddict]

I feel they really nailed both the sound and control/interface.
Love being able to switch pre and post drive. The modulation is quick and intuitive. Perfect range from clean to dirty. Fun to use and sounds great. Overall creative inspiring and enjoyable to use.. which is all I could ask for

Have to say i really like their sem filter for similar reasons

[jamcat]

You can download every Arturia plugin here: https://www.arturia.com/support/downloads&manuals
There's no need to install the Arturia Software Center. That's just for convenience if you have more than one plugin and to keep everything up to date.

I very much like the ASC. It’s probably the best software/installation manager out there. It tells me what version I have and alerts me when something’s been updated without me even having to manually check, and then it downloads and installs it for me. I can update my dozens of Arturia plugins with a single click. What’s not to love about that?

[revvy]

It has a Daft Punk logo?

Reinstalled!!

Daft Punk

[vurt]

i should of course also say thanks, it's nice to be appreciated

but, as much as i do try not to get in to arguments and will just mess about tryna calm shit, im not perfect, and like anybody else, i get a bit "attached" at times to an argument
we're all only human (except bones who is a cyborg from the future)

97,620 posts ago, did you have any idea you'd become somewhat of a voice of reason and calm in such a community?

it's been a long hard road to get here, id like to thank my mum, my agent, my dealer(s) and of course all of you for this honour ...

[digitalboytn]

i should of course also say thanks, it's nice to be appreciated

but, as much as i do try not to get in to arguments and will just mess about tryna calm shit, im not perfect, and like anybody else, i get a bit "attached" at times to an argument
we're all only human (except bones who is a cyborg from the future)

97,620 posts ago, did you have any idea you'd become somewhat of a voice of reason and calm in such a community?

it's been a long hard road to get here, id like to thank my mum, my agent, my dealer(s) and of course all of you for this honour ...

You forgot your sponsors you ungrateful turd

[gentleclockdivider]

THere are some rather strange quircks , just nitpicking
Modulating the offset parameter has a wider range .
Modulate the master filter offset with envelope follower by ( positive) 10pct and apply negative 10 pct to both hp and lp ,one would assume the modualtion would null , but that's not the case .
MAster cutoff still has some mod.going on .
Also encountered the post -pre drive is not always updated when switched , gui wis it does but the dsp wise not .
Also the signal follower display disappearing etc..but hey it's free and it does sounds great !

[wltchris101]

Probably only way to know for sure if you can run their stuff without the ASC installed would be to ask Arturia directly.

The question, what happens next Christmas? Another freebie, then you have to install ASC again, just to uninstall it again when you installed and activated the plugin?

Also, you miss out on any update. And, Arturia's plugins get updated pretty regularly.

From the software managers I used, ASC is by far not the worst.

I have no problems whatsoever with using ASC. Like others, I've never had any problems with it. I have no intention of uninstalling it as I have most of their stuff, and it's a lot easier to keep up to date if you do use it I think. I was merely discussing the possibility of whether you can run their software without it because somebody else asked that question earlier in the thread.