Reviewed By Boy Wonder [all]
June 10th, 2022
Version reviewed: 1.0 on Windows
First, the good: Transition is fairly unique in what it does - create random notes based on several parameters you can set such as scale, octaves, frequency, etc. Further manipulation by utilizing creative tools in the activity pad area ensures whatever Transition comes up with is very original. Already, I've created 25-minute ambient tracks as well as one long 50-minute opus with it and it sounded good.
And now, the bad: For some reason, and I can't contact CodeFN42 to find out why, you can't load more than one instance of Transition in Cubase or Studio One. I'm guessing this is the same with other DAWs although I haven't tried. When you do attempt it, the DAWs either lock up or shut down right away, thus my intended goal to set up one Transition in 1/4 time and the other in 1/8 or 1/16 is never achieved.
Common sense would suggest that I'm trying to force the DAWs to use multiple clock rates which they can't do, but using CodeFN42's own RandARP in multiple instances with different timings does work, so it must be a Transition bug. Like I'd said before, I couldn't reach the dev about a solution. Anyway, I can always record one track of 1/4 Transition then go back and create a 1/16 take. It's just be nice to have two or more of them going at the same time to make sure what was being concocted makes musical sense.
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yes it's fun. but for me it's crashing the s**t out of studio one...
can't complain for a freebie though..
Actually, same here with Live, but in Reaper everything is ok.
Please try version 1.02.
Just curious- was this inspired by ToneCarver's Nova3 (which was itself inspired by Otomata)?
I've been enjoying Nova3 for a while now, and it was the first thing I thought of when I saw the pic of Transition.
Super fun! Works good in Tracktion Waveform 9. One glitch, with a synth - VacuumPro cutting out after a lot of play, resolved by deleting the plug and re-inserting it, leading me back to more fun.
Update: Inserting 2 or more instances into Waveform brings about crashes fairly quickly. Sure is fun before it bails! Hope this can be stabilized going forward.
Are you using version 1.02? Just tested with 5 instances of Transition and 5 synths in Reaper, letting it run for 90 minutes, while recording the output. No crashes.
Thanks for the heads up regarding v 1.02. I just downloaded and installed it yesterday, which was reporting as v 1.00 in the Waveform plugin browser under the Description Tag column. I Re-downloaded and installed today and Waveform still reports it as v 1.00, yet the plugs About shows it as v 1.02.
It's still crashing when I use more than one instance. : (.
Thanks for the heads up regarding v 1.02. I just downloaded and installed it yesterday, which was reporting as v 1.00 in the Waveform plugin browser under the Description Tag column. I Re-downloaded and installed today and Waveform still reports it as v 1.00, yet the plugs About shows it as v 1.02.
It's still crashing when I use more than one instance. : (.
Update: Coming back into the edit after a crash, I started over with one instance, made a VacuumPro synth patch change as the edit was playing, then added another track / instance and it stayed functional. Repeated this pattern and have 5 tracks running great for over 10 minutes. Makes me wonder about VacuumPro interaction, in that as I first reported it cut out after a bit and needed to be reloaded.
This is a ridiculously fun plug, thank you!!.
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