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Some people contributed a few sounds that just went into the "Kaivo percussion" folders etc. It could have been some of those. I can't remember for sure.
Thanks for the report, I'll try to reproduce here.
Sorry to hear about this. Please go back to 1.8.5 for now. You can find the 1.8.5 installer here: https://madronalabs.com/media/aalto/AaltoInstaller1.8.5.exe
You may have to remove the 1.9.0 DLLs manually first.
Hi, I don't do a summer sale every year, this year I did an Aaltoverb release and announced the Simple bundle. I'm always trying new things. That said you can count on a year-end sale this year. Thanks for the good words.
I'm just one programmer with big ideas and limited resources, and I'm often overly optimistic. I'm sorry this results in bad time estimates sometimes, I'm working on it.
OK, thanks for the clear video—I'm having a look at this.
Sorry for the confusion with the installer. I had hoped to restrict it to require Metal but that's not working.
Don't worry, there's grief and suffering in developing the software too! :-)
I think this issue can come up seemingly randomly, which is one reason it has been hard for me to track down. I think I've fixed it but in reality I've just moved the code around so that it happens in a different set of circumstances.
Now that Aaltoverb is shipped I'm going to take another look. Thanks for your patience.
After installing Aalto 1.8.5 and then running it for the first time, sometimes Aalto's UI will come up "blank"—with no cables, preset text or dial indicators. This looks bad, but fortunately the fix is easy: just relaunch the application. The next time Aalto is launched it should have all of its UI.
Thanks for the report. I'll look into it. Meanwhile do you have any other DAWs on your machine you can try? I'm not saying you should switch what you are using but just to diagnose this problem. FL is kind of notoriously weird with VST plugin handling.
@plexus I'm definitely going to sympathize with you. I wish Apple had just decided to make a fast implementation of OpenGL on their new hardware instead of killing it.
On the other hand I'm liking the performance boost from Metal.
I'm going to take a look at adding a runtime switch that would let me bring up an OpenGL interface to support older computers
I'm using JUCE but not for drawing. Mainly just for low-level plugin support.
Drawing in Aaltoverb is all done on the GPU and not really optimized at all yet. So I'm not surprised to see a lot of GPU activity. I don't know what the CPU activity would be about. I'll be doing some profiling in the future, meanwhile I hope it still works OK for you.
@toumpouris I think we sorted this out by email. I'm sorry Aaltoverb can't work for you right now. Please stay tuned. I do plan to add support for older Macs to the framework if possible.
Nice to hear from all of you. We’ve been in this together a while now :-)
Wait @tikitpok how did you even end up with a 2015 MPB with 10.10? ... Oh, I see 10.11 was released mid-2015.
@muki I hear the feedback about the dragging being coarse! And yeah I forgot to do a section on "dials, general" in the manual—have to fix that
Enjoy your Sunday!
Thanks for the thoughts and nice feedback!
Shift-drag does do a much higher precision drag than the numbers are capable of showing in some cases.
I've thought about more modulation options in the future.
Please send me an email if you want to pay by PayPal and I'll send you a funds request.
Metal: I'm truly sorry to leave anyone out of the fun, for now. Apple is going to be requiring Metal in the near future and I'm looking towards that future with new products. After all this time I'm still just one person coding, with a limited capacity to support different APIs that come down the road and multiple ones at once.
Having said that I will look at adding OpenGL support for older Macs when I have a chance. It shouldn't be too difficult, but I do need a break first!
If anyone wants to purchase by PayPal, just send me an email and I'll send you a money request.
If you were used to PayPal, all you see from your end now that we've moved to Stripe is "PayPal’s gone!" But from my end, things are much easier with Stripe because having a credit card is a much more common thing in the world than having a PayPal account. And I saw many many requests on my end from people who didn't want to or were unable to make PayPal accounts. Ideal would be to support both, but, that is more complicated.
@fernando carvalho can you please send me an email about this bug with a few more details including your OS and Live versions? Thank you.
I sent the license key to your gmail. :-)
done!
If you like, I'll be happy to send a $ request through PayPal so you can pay that way and I'll make your license manually. Let me know.
Thanks for writing! Modulation is a fine idea. Maybe in the future if this thing catches on.
I'm interested to hear why a card is worse than PayPal for you or what's not working. If you don't want to discuss it in the comments please email me at support@madronalabs.com... thanks.
There will be a different opportunity to buy things and save money. Please stay tuned just another week or so.
Thanks for the impressions of how you are using Mac and iThings!
Parameter overrides or locks for any parameter are definitely on my list of things to add to all the instruments.
just download the demo from https://madronalabs.com/products/aalto and install. No need to re-register.
I'll have to take a listen to the u-he instruments. If a synth is doing poly legato without something like MPE to tell it which "vibrating object" a note is on, there's always a decision to be made about which note to connect to a new one. Without getting too much into it here, I'd say it gets tricky pretty quick. :-)
I think you are going to have to use one Aalto in unison mode per "string" right now. Voices will want to reassign to new incoming notes and aside from the unison switch there are no switches on that algorithm.
I do appreciate your idea of the "MPE Legato" mode and I can see adding that at some point. I'll add it as a feature request.
Thanks for the feedback.
Hi there, I'm happy to help you diagnose what's going on. Getting a movie of the data from you is the best way.
You can record the screen using QuickTime Player: https://support.apple.com/guide/quicktime-player/record-your-screen-qtp97b08e666/mac
I'm assuming you have the latest software v. 1.8.3: https://madronalabs.com/topics/1691-sticky-soundplane-client-for-mac
Please go to the Touches page and set the view mode to "calibrated." This shows the closest thing to a direct pressure readout from the sensors. Then make sure "view scale" is at the default of 1.0.
Then capture a video of running a single finger slowly across the surface from left to right on each row of keys. You could take around 5 seconds per row.
Then try to capture one of your stuck-note events, again on the "calibrated" page, so i can see what that looks like.
This should let me look for electrical and mechanical issues at once for an initial diagnosis.
Fingers placed on adjacent keys are going to be recognized as the same touch. This is a limitation of the current sensor software. I plan to improve this in software in the future.
Noise when the sensor is at rest is normal. Not enough to trigger random notes, obviously, but it is OK to see the noise. Every sensor has noise—most just don't give you a way to see it.
Forums are a great way to get in touch but not good for sending videos—please direct followups to support@madronalabs.com. You can share the videos using Dropbox or something similar.
Thank you for sharing, Pierre! I've tweeted about it and found it very interesting as well as evocative sounding. I appreciate your crediting Kaivo.
Thanks very much for sharing!
A bug report identifies a problem with the software and gives the developer facts that will help lead to a fix. Nearly always, it should be short and sweet.
First, before reporting a bug, please look at the topics in this forum to see if one matches your problem. If so, post in the existing thread. If not, then start a new thread with a title that describes the problem briefly. A good report contains:
Title: A very brief description of the issue and when it happens
Environment: all of the software and hardware the issue happened on, including:
- Plugin or software and complete version (found at upper right in Madrona Labs plugins)
- AU/VST host and version
- OS Version, full version like "OS X 10.14.6" or "Windows 10 Pro version 1903"
Steps to reproduce: what causes the problem, told in a way that a developer can repeat it. Numbered steps are often helpful here.
Reproducibility: when the steps are followed, does the problem happen every time, sometimes, or rarely?
Expected result: what you thought was supposed to happen when the steps were followed.
Actual result: what happened instead. Did the DAW crash? Did the plugin stop making audio? Please try to be specific—"the button didn't work" may just mean that we have different expectations about it.
Evidence: if you are able to get them, screenshots or audio captures can be very helpful to describe the problem.
Thanks for your help in improving our software!
Thanks for the notes and offer of help. I've been in touch with Jim at Five12 and I think I know what's going on here. I'll be able to focus on this in earnest in a week or so.