MSF Bug (I Think)

[dmbaer]

I was trying to set up a situation in which I have a bank parameter that modulates multiple harmonics in an oscillator. It just was not working, so I tried the trick with a basic single multi-parameter. What I found there (I think) was that if I wanted to modulate harmonic 1, the parameter would modulate harmonic 2. If wishing to modulate harmonic 2, then harmonic 3 would be affected. There was no way to modulate harmonic 1 as far as I could see.

This mis-assignment happened both when I used used a Learn function and when I assigned the target manually. It might even get weirder when using a bank parameter, so if this bug is confirmed, make sure to give the bank parameter scenario a good shakedown.

If anyone can confirm they see this behavior, that would be most appreciated.

[jan-sandahl]

Sorry, I found no errors in assigning a multiparameter to any specific harmonic, but noticed something else while testing:

Assigning example:

MP 1 -> harmonic 1
MP 2 -> harmonic 2
MP 3 -> harmonic 3

etc.

When all are down at 0% (via MP) and you start turning up one (any harmonic) the MP just acts as an on/off switch (no volume/max volume). No slow volume increase.

If one (any) multi is up some percentage then you can volume fade in the others.

So volume fade isn't working when modulating a single harmonic's level, while the others are on 0%.

[dmbaer]

When all are down at 0% (via MP) and you start turning up one (any harmonic) the MP just acts as an on/off switch (no volume/max volume). No slow volume increase.

I'm not at my DAW, so I can't test this. But ... did you notice the Normalize switch on the Advanced panel, which I think is On by default? That might explain the behavior you're seeing.

[dmbaer]

I upgraded from 16.10 to 16/11, and the behavior is unchanged. I did notice something else although it's probably incidental. The description of the modulation target is different when using auto-learn vs manual, explicit entry. We see:

Auto-learn:

Generator - Oscillator 1 - Shape - Shape harmonics - Level 2

Manual:

Generator - Oscillator 1 - Shape - Harmonics - Level 2

[dmbaer]

First I want to state emphatically that I have not been smoking anything.

I tried to repeat this problem yesterday and it now is behaving as expected. If harmonic 2 is the target, that value of harmonic 2 changes when I tweak the associated MP. I have no idea what's going on here.

Except ... there's also this:

When I target harmonic 1, nothing happens. In fact, if I learn harmonic 1 level, no target line gets added to the MP. In other words, if we have an empty MP and learn harmonic 1 level, we still have an empty MP.

Also, I noticed that although harmonic 1 has no phase parameter, if you add a target manually, we see a phase target along with the level target for harmonic 1. This would seem to be an error.

[MeldaProduction]

Hmm, I tested this, all seems fine. Perhaps a screen video? Send it over email please.