Hi there! For the past three months, I've been working on an update to Kaivo, and it's finally time to roll it out. I've tuned up the audio engine, improved the graphics and spent many hours finding and fixing a whole host of minor UI issues that made people including me go "grrrr" sometimes.
Thanks as always for your support, and all the feedback you have sent my way about the 1.0 version. This 1.1 release is feeling buttery smooth here, and I hope it gives you many happy hours diving into sound.
Changes:
- over 50 new factory patches
- optimized DSP code (10-20% improvement)
- made demo reminder noise much quieter
- added a new audio import dialog
- trimmed and optimized source samples
- fixed a compatibility problem with Soundplane
- improved model sonics in high frequencies
- improved resonator tuning
- increased range of resonator damping parameter
- improved legibility of scope dials
- fixed a problem saving the window location
- fixed glitches in xy scope display
- improved typography
- improved granulator view speed
- fixed incredibly annoying disappearing menu issue
- fixed keyboard stealing issue in 64-bit VST
- added case-insensitive sort for patch menu
- fixed audio issues with body nonlinearity
- and many more minor fixes.
Special thanks for making this release happen go to Don Solaris, who generously contributed some great factory patches. (If you happen to have a Waldorf Blofeld, check out his excellent "Analog Voltage" patches at the Waldorf website.)
The new Import dialog is not reflected in the manual yet. But it should be pretty straightforward. In the future, I want to add some file combining magic here, but for now, it simply lets you pull up a file, listen to it, and it the file is longer than 8 seconds, pick the 8 second clip you want to import into Kaivo. If you have any questions, please stop into the forums and ask.
Awesome! Look forward to trying it out.
Hi Randy!
Will owners of 1.0 be able to upgrade to Kaivo 1.1?
Many thanks!
p.s. all set -- this is a wonderful instrument.
Yes certainly, you can just go download it right now!
O good news! looks interesting, thanks Randy.
Nice update. CPU usage seems way down compared to the release version. Couple of issues - the window retains it's size and location only if presets are not changed and I did get one daw freeze (using Studio One) when importing a sample. Has never happened before with your vst's.
@jbe, thanks for the feedback --- can you send me an email to support at madronalabs.com with some more specifics? (OS, DAW version, kind of file you were importing, the very last thing you did before the freeze, etc.)
Ah, yes - audio import! Reduced CPU! Looking great, downloading now ...
I try import samples now - work ok for me. (Studio One 2.6.2, Win7 x32), tested on short and longer than 8sec wavs.
yay! nice work randy. looking forward to experimenting.
the window retains it's size and location only if presets are not changed
Fixed for the next update.
When I load the "simple spring" preset (under Kaivo Percussion) the resonator says "undefined" and I hear a droning noise that plays even with no key pressed. It's ok if I change the resonator to one of the springs, but this seems to be a bug in Kaivo 1.1.
I'm on OS X 10.8.5, Ableton Live 9.1.2, AU version of the plugin.
@adamj, I am guessing you haven't installed the new samples and patches yet. They can be found on the Kaivo product page. This should fix the problem you are seeing.
Fantastic update!!! Thank you Randy! CPU usage is much lower!
I love the new version -- I think it sounds better! (how is that possible?)
@randy: Forgot to respond. Yes, that was the problem. I should RTFM, but I didn't pay much attention since I was upgrading from 1.0.
It would be helpful in the future if the samples/patches download were included in "My Downloads" page or even in the zip download for the Kaivo instrument. Not a big deal, I'm sure you have more important things to do.
All seems well with Kaivo 1.1 now. Nice update. Cheers!
I love the new version -- I think it sounds better! (how is that possible?)
Thanks! Yeah, I think it's pretty objectively better, partly because I fixed some math that was causing a non-physical oscillation in the resonators which was kind of harsh sometimes. I did other things to sweeten and tune it a bit as well. I want a really solid foundation going forward and I was in a hurry to get there.
It would be helpful in the future if the samples/patches download were included in "My Downloads" page or even in the zip download for the Kaivo instrument. Not a big deal, I'm sure you have more important things to do.
These "user experience" things are very important to me. It's not in with the watermarked zip downloads because watermarking a 100Mb download would be very hard on my (and everyone's) bandwidth. But I should make it easier to find. Thanks for the feedback.