KVR Audio

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 7:37 pm

Maybe old, but ZynAddSubFX is still a fantastic sounding piece of software

murnau · Post by **murnau** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 8:03 pm

glokraw wrote:
fwsuperhero wrote:IMHO (ZynAddSubFX is too much old
zyn is actively improved, as is the Yoshimi variant. To paraphrase the muse,
'What's age got to do with it...got to do with it?'

the latest zyn improvements:

http://www.linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic ... 24&t=14049

zyn is actively improved? Not for windows.

fwsuperhero · Post by **fwsuperhero** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 1:00 am

I am talking about ZYN GUI and workflow.
It is great sounding synth with huge possibilities but not user-friendly (look at Xfer Serum for example, huge possibilities and friendly interface) and it lacks modulation matrix. Helm's approach is much more straightforward.

mtytel · Post by **mtytel** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 1:04 am

Ameyah Audio wrote:here are 2 drones:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/86117128x0ckj ... atches.rar

the preset browser needs a bit work, its a bit hard to click through the presets, maybe a rolldown menu?

@bjporter, i really want that thing in the next OSC! it was really stable here.

crashes ableton 9.2 x86 when loading. somebody else? so his means i cant do a little demo of the 2 presets.

Awesome thanks!
I'm looking into those crashes. You all have put a bunch of stuff on my plate

Yea the patch browser is kind of a pain. When Helm is more stable I'll put some time into a nicer one.

mtytel · Post by **mtytel** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 1:06 am

wagtunes wrote:In the process of trying to figure out how to assign mod wheel to anything. A manual would be great but I guess at this beta stage that's not a reasonable thing to expect. Anyway, I don't see any modulation matrix and right clicking on parameters doesn't seem to do anything. Clicking on mod wheel does light up a bunch of stuff but from there I have no clue. Have tried dragging and dropping, clicking, whatever, but nothing seems to do anything.

This is certainly a puzzle. LOL.

Yea the mod wheel (and pitch wheel for some people) isn't working.. hmm.
The signal must have got lost somewhere, I'll go find it.

synzh · Post by **synzh** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 1:43 am

any way to change it such that the patches aren't in a hardcoded location? I usually put most of my VSTis and patches together in dirs I've created

mtytel · Post by **mtytel** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 1:48 am

synzh wrote:any way to change it such that the patches aren't in a hardcoded location? I usually put most of my VSTis and patches together in dirs I've created

Yea for the next release I'll have you select the location in the installer. I'm assuming you're on Windows right?

mtytel · Post by **mtytel** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 1:53 am

Numanoid wrote:Maybe old, but ZynAddSubFX is still a fantastic sounding piece of software

Yea I love me some ZynAddSubFX

Can barely type the name though.

synzh · Post by **synzh** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 2:09 am

mtytel - thanks, yes on win7

ZynAddSubFX - agreed, has a great sound (from my brief foray), but by the time I made the scene there were plenty of other plugs I wound up getting that surpassed it and thus haven't had time to really put it through its paces

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 3:48 am

There are several bootable linux dvd audio distros including zyn,
or cousin yoshimi, so you can use it 'out of the box', do a drum track in hydrogen,
some mult-timbral madness with zyn, and import into the windows/mac daw
etc.
Helm has sound that will do well with other instruments,
crystaline highs, raspy growls, and easy access to motion.
Gonna be fun to hear the new sounds.
Cheers

badmotor · Post by **badmotor** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 5:02 am

I don't know if this is helpful to the developer or not, but here is my go:

I love the sound of this thing, and started working on an ambient influenced track with it... but I have found that it crashes my DAW a few times. I'm using the latest 64bit Reaper on OSX (10.10.4).

edit: When I pull up the track I am using this plugin on and try to open the instance of it, that's when my DAW crashes. Both the Aui and VSTi versions crash. AUi version opens only in mono in Reaper.

mtytel · Post by **mtytel** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 7:19 pm

Hey everyone! I released a new version of Helm (v0.4.0) that fixes a lot of the major problems you've reported. Here's a list:

Fixed a crash when opening plugin GUI after changing parameters
Fixed loading back parameters from a saved DAW project
Mac AU Validation now succeeds
Mac build is 64/32 bit universal instead of just 64 bit
Windows installer now asks where to install VST plugin.
Windows 64 bit build is actually 64 bit now
MIDI input is marked "Helm" now instead of "JUCE: Midi Input"
Fixed Modulation Wheel input
Fixed Pitch Wheel's default pitch bending
Small optimizations to GNU/Linux builds

synzh · Post by **synzh** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 11:07 pm

thanks!

urlwolf · Post by **urlwolf** » Sat Jul 18, 2015 9:17 pm

Great work on the vector GUI and nice features.
However, in my testing, it crashes FL, and reaper doesn't see the vst.

Hellfog · Post by **Hellfog** » Sun Jul 26, 2015 1:08 pm

Love the Organs patches, looking forward for more patches,

Helm: new cross platform synth beta release