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randy

Mon, Mar 17, 2014, 09:16

The Juno-106 was my inspiration and I wanted to keep it simple. I could see this being useful though.

randy

Mon, Mar 17, 2014, 09:15

Hmm, possibly a "direct" input to the gate?

randy

Mon, Mar 17, 2014, 09:03

I hear you, thanks for the good feedback. Kaivo is designed for processing offline files only, and it would not be easy to add live input. I have a future product planned that will do live processing. It's too soon to even think about when I will release this, but please stay tuned.

randy

Mon, Mar 17, 2014, 08:51

Chiming in here ... Randy, do you think there would be a possibility to totally bypass the OSC transport and to go straight over VST/AU host parameters.

That should work fine if the host environment supports it.

randy

Mon, Mar 17, 2014, 07:41

Ah, OK this makes sense. Thanks for the update.

randy

Mon, Mar 17, 2014, 07:40

In Aalto 1.5 they have moved to your user Library. On Mac OS the location is /Users/(you)/Library/Audio/Presets/Madrona Labs/Aalto. On Windows /Home/AppData/Roaming/Madrona Labs/Aalto.

Note that on Mac OS 10.7 and higher this location is hidden by default in the Finder. Hold down option and click the Go menu in the finder to go there. You will see the Library appear in the menu. Then you can travel to the Aalto folder and move your old presets into the new directory.

randy

Sun, Mar 16, 2014, 11:26

I don't know what you are seeing there, but Kaivo does not have the power to affect your laptop's charging mode in any way.

I'll be posting some tips for CPU use soon, and of course optimizing Kaivo over time, so please stay tuned.

randy

Sun, Mar 16, 2014, 10:36

There may be a problem with the xvel switch in Aalto / Kaivo and t3d right now. I will check this out very soon.

Ideally it would be possible to either add the envelope to the pressure input, or multiply it. A general purpose multiplier would be nice too, or at least one on the gate.

randy

Sat, Mar 15, 2014, 10:51

will do some work on MIDI mapping in future versions and try to hit the buttons too.

randy

Sat, Mar 15, 2014, 10:50

You should be able to run Kaivo OK on that machine. But there are a lot of flavors of processors in Windows machines, so it's hard to say. I'm gonna post a writeup about CPU hints very soon. Thanks for the feedback.

randy

Sat, Mar 15, 2014, 10:46

Well, if you put both env and CC signals into the gate, it will add them. This can often be what you are looking for. The velocity still works with OSC input, so you can have for example a quick velocity sensitive attack followed by aftertouch level.

randy

Fri, Mar 14, 2014, 15:29

Bypassing the envelopes should work just fine. Just start with any preset you like the sound of, and move the gate inputs in the patcher to your CC#2 instead of the envelopes.

randy

Fri, Mar 14, 2014, 15:22

Loving the liveness in your sequence timoka! these resinous squeaks every so often---amazing.

randy

Fri, Mar 14, 2014, 15:19

Some Shepard tones for you!

randy

Fri, Mar 14, 2014, 10:57

I'm always trying to figure out what would be computationally possible... thanks for the ideas!

randy

Fri, Mar 14, 2014, 10:56

There's no trick to it. You could look at one of the 4 channel factory WAV files to see what you are doing differently. Try opening "four harmonics" in your own sound editor and see what happens.

randy

Thu, Mar 13, 2014, 21:39

This is really super interesting work. Thanks for giving some validation to the open-source approach! I look forward to helping you do better Eigenharp -> Madrona software integration on down the line. And to seeing more of you playing!

randy

Thu, Mar 13, 2014, 21:34

OK, I think we have this sorted! Let's kick it off with some uncertainty.

randy

Wed, Mar 12, 2014, 07:32

I guess you are using the VST version of Aalto? VST imposes this dumb limit of parameter ranges from 0.-1. I think that if you use the AU version instead, you should be able to send the actual frequency as a floating point pitch parameter.

randy

Tue, Mar 11, 2014, 09:39

Thanks for the feedback. I'll be working on the CPU use, and posting some tips on how to get more out of it, so stay tuned.

randy

Tue, Mar 11, 2014, 09:28

Hi Valery,

I think of all the presets after the divider (Starting with Alessandros...) as user presets. you can get rid of these if you don't want them, or you can add your own directories here. Just click Save As... to save your preset, then make a new folder inside the Aalto folder.

The directories are all in the same place. Any directory staring "Aalto", will go before the divider.

randy

Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 17:26

I'm going to do a couple-day intensive on the Soundplane/Aalto/Kaivo connection next week. Thanks for the contribution, and please stay tuned for an update.

randy

Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 16:11

The choices for models are a way to distill all the parameters required for a physical model into a more useful interface. There are many parameters and in general, big areas in the parameter space that just don't sound like anything useful. So think of the modes as a map to the useful "islands" in the big multidimensional ocean of parameters.

One island's territory might overlap with another island at different parameter settings, so you kind of can, actually, morph between one model and another. This will become more clear as I add some more models.

Feel free to play with the mystery parameters but they will probably go away at some point.

randy

Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 16:00

Yeah, that won't work so well!

Kaivo is meant for using short samples, 8 seconds at the most. It will load everything in the samples directory into RAM on startup. So you will have to pick them out intentionally and not try to use your whole library.

randy

Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 15:54

Not a familiar problem to me. Thanks for the report. I'll check out Kaivo in FL 11 / WIn 8 as soon as I get a chance.

randy

Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 15:53

The window resizing should get remembered, so this sounds like a bug that may have popped up recently. Thanks for the report—I'll look into it.

Built-in MIDI mapping is something I will do in a future update. People keep asking me for it, so I know it's important to my customers, but doing it right will not be trivial.

Meanwhile I make sure MIDI mapping works well with the most popular DAWs, which are pretty much Ableton Live and Logic. I like Ableton's "configure" button approach to mapping.

randy

Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 14:32

The relationship between pitch, rate and your source sound in the granulator is kind of complex. Please check out the manual section on pitch vs. rate (pg. 13)

In general, you have to connect both the pitch from the KEY modules to both the pitch and rate inputs of the granulator to play in tune. And, the patcher output dials (sometimes called attenuverters around here) have to be at their default (double-click) settings.

Also if you have an oscillator sound without "wrap" on, you will get weird effects near the end.

If after some exploration you think you have really identified a bug, you can send me the patch w / audio file to support @ madronalabs.

randy

Sat, Mar 08, 2014, 12:12

Thanks for the feedback. I'll give this some attention in the next update. Kaivo allows a huge dynamic range, and obviously that's by design. But ideally you would never get "smacked" by it unexpectedly as you did.

Please let me know the particular presets, if you can find them again.

randy

Sat, Mar 08, 2014, 12:04

Thanks for the detailed feedback. I will give this some attention for the next update.

randy

Sat, Mar 08, 2014, 11:56

I added an XP workaround for the next update.