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Hi everyone,
So I read the whole Aalto manual, and I (think that) I understood most of it, except for the way voices are handled, and which parts are independent.
Supposedly, each voice has at least a sequencer to itself (correct me if I'm wrong here... it might be that the whole modulation panel is independent for each part). However, suppose I want to turn the sequencer on; I reckon there is no way to control exactly when each voice starts (for instance, syncing them all at will, or triggering one per step). Instead, you have to rely on some random trigger that is output every time you turn the "voice" dial to change the number of voices and thence, each new voice appears cumulatively in a way you can't control.
I think Aalto is outstanding, and I agree with your (Randy) philosophy of putting everything in the front panel, WYSIWYG, for more intuitive and musical interplay. However, this aspect of Aalto I really don't understand and I think it does not go well with that philosophy.
Please do explain how this in-the-hood routing works. I apologise beforehand if I seem a bit arrogant due to my writing. I can assure you it is not the case ;)
Hi, so I had this very cool dream where Aalto had multiples audio inlets so you could control its parameters at audio-rate with a program such as Max. I know this might be impractical, but it sounds beautiful, doesn't it?
At least a couple of the controls have this vactrol response, but the rest will remain steppy, won't them? Or do they have smoothing functions?
Anyways, my main query here was that I'm trying to control "env2_repeat" in Max throughout the "vst~" object, but I can't go further than 0-1. Is there a solution to this? Thanks!
Ok, I "solved" the main question so this is for posterity: be sure to use the VST version and not the (AU) Component version.
So the rest of my inquiries are still there; perhaps I'm mistaken but there is a smoothing function when passing control (dialling) to signal rate, right?
Thank you both for taking your time to write such comprehensive replies. Alas, thetechnobear, I don't have a Soundplane; right now money is just for eating. Hopefully that will be remedied soon. But there are some nice tips nonetheless in your post.
randy: I think Aalto is pretty straight-forward, and the manual is one of the best I've read (actually, the only one I've read completely precisely because of this reason). I'm going to experiment with it now, but I would like to know a few more things as well:
– Just to make things clear, the sequencer is the only part in Aalto that is independent for each voice, right?
- Regarding VOX, I've been playing Aalto without any keyboard input, just to see the effect of the signal being output. I reckon that if I connect it to the sequencer, then each VOX signal will be allocated to each corresponding sequencer. Thus the scope-dials with the spread out signals in the sequencer would represent each independent sequencer. But if I were to connect the VOX output to something like oscillator pitch, then all these VOX signals (1,2...4) would be summed up, and the scope-dials would represent that, instead of overlapping layers of signals working at the same time but without effecting each other. Am I right?
Shit, that was a bit complicated, I'm sorry about that. Because I have one more question:
- Regarding the Waveguide/Delay module, could you please put in order which effect (filter, waveshaper) goes first within the feedback loop?
Thanks!