Suggestions for Silent Way

[auricle]

Hi,

Just bought Silent Way - congratulations on these fantastic plugins! It was really simple to set up in Cubase!

A couple of suggestions for you:

1) Using Cubase's LFO MIDI insert plugin on a MIDI track, I was able to send an LFO CC controller to Silent Way DC. This worked great but you could hear the stepping effect due to the low resolution of MIDI continuous controller messages (128 steps). Would it be possible to add some sort of smoothing or lag processor to the DC plugin so that it can smooth out MIDI control of parameters?

2) If I don't play perfectly monophonically, the notes sometimes double-trigger. I presume this is solved with the upcoming monophonic modes?

Thanks for creating such great plugins

[os]

1) will be best addressed by a proper LFO plug-in.

2) not sure why that would be. What are you connected to? Are you just using the gate output, or the trigger too?

[justin3am]

1) Using Cubase's LFO MIDI insert plugin on a MIDI track, I was able to send an LFO CC controller to Silent Way DC. This worked great but you could hear the stepping effect due to the low resolution of MIDI continuous controller messages (128 steps). Would it be possible to add some sort of smoothing or lag processor to the DC plugin so that it can smooth out MIDI control of parameters?

Use a simple Tremelo with the ability to control each channel independently after Silent Way DC. Two instant LFOs.

[auricle]

1) Using Cubase's LFO MIDI insert plugin on a MIDI track, I was able to send an LFO CC controller to Silent Way DC. This worked great but you could hear the stepping effect due to the low resolution of MIDI continuous controller messages (128 steps). Would it be possible to add some sort of smoothing or lag processor to the DC plugin so that it can smooth out MIDI control of parameters?

Use a simple Tremelo with the ability to control each channel independently after Silent Way DC. Two instant LFOs.

Bloody hell, that's a good idea! Thanks, mate

[auricle]

1) will be best addressed by a proper LFO plug-in.

Fair enough. Sometimes though, experimenting with various plugins available in DAWs gives a lot of flexibility. Giving a smooth option would add more to the usefulness of the DC plugin - IMHO.

2) not sure why that would be. What are you connected to? Are you just using the gate output, or the trigger too?

My setup in this case was MOTU Ultralite MK3 (with all DSP effects turned off) to Tiptop Audio Z3000 oscillator to Cwejman MX-4S. I'm using EG1 output to control the volume level of the MX-4S It was a very simple setup just to test that everything was working.

As I mentioned, if I play staccato, or carefully play monophonically, it's okay but if I hold down one note while playing another, it retriggers to get a fast 'double-note' effect.

[os]

ah yes. you've found a small bug in my note triggering logic. I'll fix that for the next release.

apologies for that.

you won't get the same problem if you use the voice controller's gate output and a hardware envelope generator.

[auricle]

ah yes. you've found a small bug in my note triggering logic. I'll fix that for the next release.

apologies for that.

you won't get the same problem if you use the voice controller's gate output and a hardware envelope generator.

Ah, okay. Thanks for the info. Actually, I really like the envelopes in the voice controller. The visual indication of the current stage is very useful.

I did notice another bug, this one being visual. In the VST Mac version, the labels above the controls are not in the right position - they are lower than they should be. In the Voice Controller, if you click on one of the labels for a more detailed view of an envelope, the labels snap back into the right position. Unfortunately, in the DC plugin, there are no clickable labels so that workaround cannot be used.

The AU versions are all okay.

[os]

Someone else mentioned this too. The VST Mac is fine in Live - it's just Cubase that shows up the problem, which is unfortunate as I don't have Cubase to test with.

[auricle]

Someone else mentioned this too. The VST Mac is fine in Live - it's just Cubase that shows up the problem, which is unfortunate as I don't have Cubase to test with.

mmn, not sure what to suggest. It's not as if there's a demo you can try!

[os]

I'll just have to try some educated guesses

[auricle]

Great, I'll be happy to test them for you.