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1. MiroslavH
   Member

   Your synth is one of the best (I use maybe all of the best - NI, Camel, Image-Line, Korg, LnPlug, Rob Papen, Symptohm, Surge, U-He, Virsyn, Tone2... maybe 300 iVST and plugins) on the market. The modulation (so simple) and ergonomy is really amazing (i have a diplom of ergonomy)... Really good, very good work.

   But i have some wishes:
   1 - can you introduce a possibiilty to create our own microtonal intervals (the best method is used by Absynth, the worst in Virsyn Cube).

   2 - I would like enlarge the window of Circle, to avoid the lift. I work on three screens, Apple Cinema (30inches) and two 24inches: It's not very easy to warp the window from his loweat part to higest.

   3 - for edition of sounds, can You, please, install the possibility to use the computer keyboard to use to play sounds. OK, it's without dynamic, but we can listen to the result. And this is very interessting when we work with the powerbook at the airport to edit some new sounds...

   It's all for instant...

   Thank

   Miroslav

   Posted 3 years ago #
2. actuel
   Member

   here, here for being able to use the computer keyboard.

   Posted 3 years ago #
3. wolfinterval
   Member

   +1 for using the computer keyboard to trigger sounds in the stand-alone application. Ableton does this really well when Live has the focus and keyboard triggering is on.

   Also, double+1 on changing interface size. I'd love to have an option for full-screen in the stand-alone app.

   Posted 3 years ago #
4. GavinFAW
   Admin & Help

   Hi,

   Thanks for the feedback. I have added a feature request for the microtonal tunings. SCALA would be good for this I think.

   Having the ability to play Circle with the computer keyboard when in standalone mode is already on the list.

   On the GUI resize, this is an ever present request. The problem is however complex, as you have to resize the window and alll the gui components while inside the host and this is a major source of bugs. I have seen it done only once in a plug-in and that was with juce's PPMulator, which has a very simple interface. But it is something that we appreciate is very useful, but technically near to impossible at the moment.

   Posted 3 years ago #
5. wolfinterval
   Member

   @Gavin: I 100% appreciate re-sizing and windowing problems inside a host, that's why I additionally specified full-screen for only the stand-alone app when I chimed in. The interface of Circle is so well-done, I want to be able to work with it and nothing else showing. It would look amazing sized up to take over the screen, and I think the minimization of distractions would be further support for finding Flow.

   I've been using the stand-alone app all morning. Really excellent work.

   Posted 3 years ago #
6. MiroslavH
   Member

   To Gavin: Thank for your positive response...

   On the GUI resize: maybe you can apply a type of solution like U-He (More Feedback Machine): we have to chose between three fixed sizes: small, middle and big. You fix the size of each (in accordance with the general screen definitions), and we work with. It's not vital to dispose of a continuous resizing.

   Microtonalities: please, it's important to define and fixe each specific tonality for each individual sound (and save with a preset). I'm not sure, but I think that with SCALA you load a specific tuning for a complete session or for a complete bank (this solution is adopted by Virsyn, not ideal). The beautiful solution is in METASYNTH (UI Software), where we can apply the presets (Major scale, Whole tones, Semitones, Quartertones, micro8, micro 12... to micro 50, and much more, we have a great possibility to chose between hundred other scales, and much more, to copy our own scale from other modified sounds. But Metasynth is a very special software, because there we draw the sounds and his time processing. The best solution is adopted at Absynth, we can design on a little one-octave keyboard the value in hertz (000,000Hz), and this scale is applied to all 12 octaves. I think, there is possible to load all SCALA and save the our own.

   Today i have seen, that it's possible to obtain some kind of microtonality with the keyboard Follow command. The problem is that we can't erase the three central points and measure exactly the scale between the lowest to highest tone.

   I don't understand how to use the second curve (Keyb2), probably only like modulator...?

   I made some sounds today and I understand that a big star is born... Your device is so modulatory, like only one virtual synth on the market - Zebra and all other products of U-He. Your synth is more simple to manipulate.

   But... for my power mac G5 (2 x 2,5GHz, with 2Go of ram) each session is a genuine gore show. Circle should be renamed to Ring (movie) where everybody, seeing the tape, must dead. I tried Circle with Cubase, which is also dead...

   So one other wish: reduce, please, the resource's needs.

   Miroslav

   Posted 3 years ago #
7. PierreFAW
   Member

   Hi Miroslav,

   We are actually working on a "eco" mode for Circle to reduce the CPU ressource when you are working that you can turn off when rendering to get the optimal sound quality.
   An update should come very soon.

   About the computer keyboard to play Circle in the standalone, i will definitely try to implement that soon too.

   I'm also going to work on the resize stuff and let you know what is possible to do, the problems could come from how the different hosts are dealing with windows.

   I'll report my investigations and let you know.

   thanks

   Pierre@FAW

   Posted 3 years ago #
8. MiroslavH
   Member

   Thank Pierre for all these information...
   A propos, do you speak french? My french is more better thant english..
   Maybe you can create some forums for french people, you know certainly, that French don't know (like) speak english.
   Miroslav

   Posted 3 years ago #
9. MiroslavH
   Member

   Another little suggest:

   I've discovered very quickly, that the modulation connexion can be modulated in + or - by the little contextual menu (right click).

   The problem is that for certain parameter (i.e envelope), it is not possible to edit the parameter by taping the value in the keyboard, in spite the fact, that there is a contextual menu. It could be clean, if we can make this menu opened and write the value here...
   Thank
   MiroslavH

   Posted 3 years ago #
10. GavinFAW
    Admin & Help

    Hi Miroslav,

    The suggestion of being able to enter text into the value pop up is one we will look at. This would be down the line though.

    Also, Pierre would be more than happy to answer in French on subjects that you find hard to explain in English.

    On specific language forums, if there was a time where we had lots of users speaking a specific language, by all means we would open a forum or offer a translated version of the site. As a first step we are working on translating the Circle manual to other languages.

    Posted 3 years ago #
11. D_13
    Member

    Hey I just had an idea that I thought would be interesting, would it be possible to have some of the parameters in the arpeggiator modulater assignable like the swing and stuff, I think that would have the potential for some really unique effects, even the glide settings could have some modulation perhaps could be interesting, i.e. more glide the higher up you play. Some easy way to copy your settings on one analog/wavetable oscillator to another would be really nice. It slightly breaks the flow if you want to set up two wavetable oscillators the same way for instance.

    Posted 3 years ago #
12. GavinFAW
    Admin & Help

    Hi D_13,

    We won't be able to allow the modulation of the arp parameters, because this module doesn't exist in the main synthesis line, so there are no modulation input hooks.
    We have another request also for snap shots for the oscillators and will have a look at this.

    Thanks,
    Gavin.

    Posted 3 years ago #
13. Luna72
    Member

    Guess that new VST3 spec will be open for resizable plugins. Three step resizing might be a good way between free window dragging (which of course might be a pain for the developer and buggy) and the one-window fixed version.
    (similar to that what Kontakt has??)

    Posted 3 years ago #
14. breakbeatmonster
    Member

    My wishes:
    Turn elements (analog, wavetable, filter) on/off by midi.

    and

    The sqeuencers got 'snap shots' already. whould be cool other elements got this, too. If I could assign these snapshots via midi I can play variations of a sound very easy by pressing e.g. the keys of the low octave of my remote-keyboard. maybe cool for live playing.

    Posted 3 years ago #
15. shamburglar
    Member

    It would be awesome if you could somehow route the LFOs, Envelopes and step seq to midi CCs so that you could use them to control ableton live parameters.

    Posted 3 years ago #
16. breakbeatmonster
    Member

    ... or real avatar-pictures in this forum ;-)
    (I love this thread :-))

    Posted 3 years ago #
17. GavinFAW
    Admin & Help

    Just updated the forum so you can upload your own avatars :)

    Posted 3 years ago #
18. breakbeatmonster
    Member

    YEAH! It rocks...

    Posted 3 years ago #

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