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preenfm2 and preenfm3 / Re: Paraphonic vs Polyphonic (firmware 1.07beta2+polyphony)

« on: August 18, 2015, 11:53:48 PM »

Didn't delved deep. But it sounds pretty organic now. Nice!
Did not faced with any problem yet.
https://clyp.it/b330ub3y

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preenfm2 and preenfm3 / Re: New firmware 1.07 beta 2

« on: August 18, 2015, 10:58:07 AM »

I messed around with 1.07b2 and its features yesterday. Was interested to sequence its Instruments with Renoise again. Routed PFM2s outputs into 2 different chanels and added some ValhallaDSP reverbs and automated FreqEcho. Sequenced PFM2 with some randomized data And recorded this realtime. I forgot to switch soundcards input preamp to adequate level so there is some background noise since i amped everything in Renoise.

https://clyp.it/ubu0slxg

Have to say Note scaling is really useful for percussion (all percussion was made of one Instrument which was kick initially)

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preenfm2 and preenfm3 / Re: Paraphonic vs Polyphonic (an other beta firmware included)

« on: August 18, 2015, 10:38:40 AM »

Awesome! Gonna test it today!

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preenfm2 and preenfm3 / Re: Paraphonic

« on: August 17, 2015, 12:18:53 PM »

Yeah i suspected this when i was messing with LFOs some time ago. It became more evident after you introduced Note scaling feature.
I can live with this though. But obviously i would not mind having polyphonic matrix with reduced voice number since it will sound more organic for me.

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preenfm2 and preenfm3 / Paraphonic vs Polyphonic

« on: August 17, 2015, 10:15:28 AM »

Regarding paraphonic matrix was it made so because of lack of resources? It could be a huge drawback for someone i guess. Everyone is used to per-voice modulations these days IMO. For example global pitch modulation sounds strange and cheap a bit compared to per-voice vibrato which gives you a proper rich tones usually. Yeah you can do vibrato through modulation applied to 1Hz OP but..
Even my tx81z has per-voice LFO i quess (i can be wrong here though)
Filter could be still paraphonic though.

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preenfm2 and preenfm3 / Re: New firmware 1.07 beta 2

« on: August 16, 2015, 11:05:03 AM »

Did not found overclocked version of fw. It is not so important for testing purposes though.

What i found strange is that it affects all voices at once. So when high note appears it also affects previous note's (which could be low for exaple) tail. I suspect same behaviour with lfo also. Looks like modulators work on not per-voice basis but affect globally on instrument level. So it sounds as not really polyphonic but paraphonic (like waldorf pulse 2 for example. You can use it's oscs in polyphonic fashion but everything goes through single filter).
Gonna test it further on 2 operator stack.

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preenfm2 and preenfm3 / Re: New firmware 1.07 beta 1

« on: August 14, 2015, 10:34:40 AM »

Ok, i checked this a little yesterday. Gonna dig deeper today.
First of all. 1 and 2 are working, i didn't checked LFO phases yet.

1. I messed with this feature for a while. It works indeed. Sounds cool. Tried some exotic and not so exotic scales with Octatrack's overmodulated arpeggiator. PFM2 can sound like gamelan orchestra from Saturn now (especially with Note scaling it sounds super organic and natural) or everything can be slightly re-tuned, awesome. Gonna research further this feature and make some measurements in Mapping department, comparsions with other scala implementations etc.

2. This feature works too. I did not delved in details yet. Have to find sweet spots, gonna try this with basic operator setups and so on. But yes, you can get interesting results with this feature already.

Found a little problem, maybe it is my fault, will investigate today. It loads default patch now and doesn't save this setting after chaging it to Bank or Combo. After reboot it loads and shows 'Default' in settings again. Also could not get USB midi to work, maybe it is my fault too. Was pretty tired yesterday.

Gonna say PreenFM2 became even more awesome. Thank you Xavier!

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preenfm2 and preenfm3 / Re: New firmware 1.07 beta 1

« on: August 13, 2015, 09:49:06 AM »

Wow! Gonna check it today.

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preenfm2 and preenfm3 / Re: Newbie questions

« on: July 27, 2015, 09:38:17 AM »

Maybe it is better to do one more entry in LFO section with mod matix 'Note' source params? I find it more logical.

Something like this, after Seq 2 for example:

I1 Instrument
Note Level Scaling
BrPnt    Curve   
G#2      Exp

Everything else (+/- and level) is manageable via mod matrix i guess.

From DX7 manual:
KEYBOARD LEVEL SCALING


Permits raising or lowering the EG levels for keys to the left and right of any key specified as the "Break Point".  This is basically a highly advanced version of the keyboard follower function found on some conventional synthesizers, permitting much finer scaling control.



BREAK POINT:
The BREAK POINT key--the reference for the scaling function--can be specified anywhere between A1 and C8.
CURVE:
Permits variation of the scaling curve to the left and right of the BREAK POINT key.  Pressing the CURVE key alternates between R KEY SCALING and L KEY SCALING displays.  Four different curves are available, as shown in the figure.
DEPTH:
Varies the depth of each curve over a 0 to 99 range.  A 0 setting results in a flat (no variation) curve, and a 99 setting produces maximum scaling depth.

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preenfm2 and preenfm3 / Re: Newbie questions

« on: July 22, 2015, 09:44:18 AM »

I know with blofeld you can do exponential to linear trick with envelopes. Iirc their Decay and Release stages are exponential, and you can make 'em linear by modulating them with the same Env via mod matrix.

Maybe in PFM2 something like this is possible? There are first 4 mod slots multiplier destination in mod matrix. Maybe you can assign mx1 = Key -> IM, mx2= Key -> mx1. Something like this.

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preenfm2 and preenfm3 / Re: Newbie questions

« on: July 17, 2015, 10:10:25 AM »

Yeah, i can confirm that Saw isn't Saw but Triangle.

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preenfm2 and preenfm3 / Re: Feature request: Microtuning

« on: July 10, 2015, 10:37:59 AM »

Wow, activity! Cool

Btw, Xavier, i still use PFM2 since it is awesome.

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preenfm2 and preenfm3 / Re: Feature request: Microtuning

« on: January 20, 2015, 11:31:27 AM »

No problems

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preenfm2 and preenfm3 / Re: Feature request: Microtuning

« on: January 17, 2015, 05:27:27 PM »

BumpityBump

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preenfm2 and preenfm3 / Re: Feature request: Microtuning

« on: November 13, 2014, 10:59:59 AM »

Awesome!