U-he updates – voice per channel

U-he updates – voice per channel

updates mean we now have voice per channel on Diva, Ace and Bazille, thats a huge sonic territory.

Ive been playing with Diva (with VahallaRoom) and even a simple patch feels so expressive, so full… yum 🙂

new versions : http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=418736

oh, well thats my afternoon gone!

enjoy

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For those of you playing with multi expression using u-he Bazille, Groove 3 have just released a video training…

For those of you playing with multi expression using u-he Bazille, Groove 3 have just released a video training course for it.  If you go here then you can get a 30 day free trial courtesy of Propellorheads – the code expires tonight though, so be quick!

https://www.propellerheads.se/groove3offer/?utm_source=newsletter140717&utm_medium=email&utm_content=newsletter140717&utm_campaign=newsletter140717//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

Vienna Ensemble Pro – thoughts?

Vienna Ensemble Pro – thoughts?

on the same machine as EigenD, does it introduce perceptible latency?

Im seriously considering having an EigenD setup, which proxies to VEP.

the reasons are simple:

– easier configuration, vep is great for having multiple setups etc

– performance – multi core support

performance, EigenD has a single fast thread that all AU use*, this is going to cause issues when running multiple audio units either in different rigs/splits but also when using audio units for effects. it would be nice to be spreading load across cores.

personally, ive already found running audio units in daw, has worked well… which is similar to vep concept.

another alternative would be to host vsts in max, using poly… this opens up not only midi but also interfacing via osc.

* some audio units support multithread/core, but its far from ‘the norm’

Collecting sounds for a Bazille Eigenharp preset library

Collecting sounds for a Bazille Eigenharp preset library

As Mark Harris already wrote in a previous posting: u-he Bazille supports the multi-midi-channel mode since last week and thus elevated itself into the small league of perfect Eigenharp plugins: This allows per key expressions in EigenD, including not only aftertouch and velocity (which is usually possible because keyboards support this) but also poly-pitchbend, poly-modulation, poly-expression etc.! (A download link to a beta version that supports said multi-midi-channel mode can be found here: http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=414823 )

Had a look at the presets from the last preset contests. Many nice contributions! For most you feel that they were made from a keyboard perspective though – many mainly velocity controlled short “pluck and release a string” sustain phase sounds. Or “press a key and hear it evolve automatically” things – not so many that allow to shape a note while it sounds with full manual control, allowing the full range from pizzicato to expressive legato.

So perhaps we can collect presets to make our own library of Eigenharp optimized sounds?

The nice thing with Eigenharps is that all control is in your hand, so the simplest sounds can be the most rewarding ones!

Here a first super simple rectangle osc+filter sound that I have been playing around with recently:

http://fstrixner.de/files/EigenD/bazillepresets/Eigenharp%201.h2p

Additional note:

There is currently another sound design competition running for Bazille:

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=415329

Just to inform about additional possibilities 🙂 (Most people who vote for the winning entries will use keyboards, so good Eigenharp presets might be too simplistic in their ears as they can’t fully control them – so I would not bet on winning here with an Eigenharp optimized sound. But it can’t hurt to try 🙂 )

http://fstrixner.de/files/EigenD/bazillepresets/Eigenharp%201.h2p//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

U-he synths to get per note expression!

U-he synths to get per note expression!

Urs has commented on forum that the coding is done (subject to testing/tweaks etc) for multi channel midi.

a new Bazille beta is planned to be released later today.

(Ace and Diva also done and will follow,  Zebra still needs some work.no timeframe).

Fantastic news, as these are my favourite soft synths and are so flexible – hopefully I can be playing with the new Bazille this weekend!

Having just got myself up and running on the new hackintosh I tried to make some sounds.

Having just got myself up and running on the new hackintosh I tried to make some sounds.

I expected the internal sound output to be noisy, so I tried a little Behringer usb which I’ve found to be ok before. The result is a steady background of electronic whistles and clicks. This unit used to be OK on my laptop although I realise it’s hardly top of the range kit.

Do I need to get some better sound hardware, and if so what sort of thing? 

Free sampled instruments

Free sampled instruments 

this guys site is very interesting he is creating sampled instruments for Kontakt based on the free samples available from the London Philharmonic Orchestra.  (he has other interesting projects too)

… you could of course do something similar with the samples in the EigenD sampler, or with any other sample playback in your DAW.

Question about octave changing – one of the things that bothers me about the Pico is how octave changing behaves -…

Question about octave changing – one of the things that bothers me about the Pico is how octave changing behaves – on my EWI, when I’m playing a note and change octaves, the octave changes immediately mid-note. On the Pico, I have to start a new note for the octave change to take effect.

Does anyone have any ideas about how to get around this? I thought about doing something with pitch bend, but then I’m limited to the pitch bend range of whatever is being controlled…

Thanks,

Seth