there seems to be a rather shortage on the manual front. and I can’t seem to find a total run-through of how to setup on YouTube.
things like if you wanted to change the oscillator you can select it and it works. Yet if you try and select noise setting, it will let you pick something but there is no means to select it. it just plays the sample of what it sounds like but that is it. if you hit the X at the top right it resets back to the previous value. if you try clicking outside the box on some other part of the plugin, it resets back to the previous value. the only method is to click the < > to pan though the options that is about useless. Did someone actually test the software before they hit release?
Yes the Ressource pages for the new products still needs to be updated to include downloads.
You can find downloads including manual (only English currently) here though: https://www.arturia.com/support/downloads-manuals
thank you for that info. So it’s just inside the Noise section that you have to double click where everywhere else you don’t.
There is a bunch on inconsistencies inside the instrument. And stuff that sadly should have been caught. like inside the in software tutorial under Sound Generators, PAGE9 is shows that you should be able to hear the sounds under Creative Sampler. So I should be able to listen to all the instrument samples. Yet inside my software that function is not there. What you show is not how the software operates. Was that function just removed from the released software and not removed from the Tutorial?
Things like the Effects functions of the bottom right. If you go into the Advanced function on the top and select the Effects menu, all the 4 modules are all greyed out. Regardless of if you have them turned on or off. This makes it much harder to setup. One would have thought that if you had the module turned on it would be in normal view like shown in the Tutorial, but it isn’t.
Just out of curiosity, who runs the actual testing department for the release of software. Clearly you need to hire better people to do testing, and I will gladly go though and list all the shortfalls and defect that I find. They can even pay me with product.
The Creative Sampler audition function works as shown in the tutorial. It’s available when you click on the “samples browser” (the line that says “a: …”), not the “samples preset browser” above it.
For Advanced->Effects, each individual module is only greyed out when that module is bypassed. It will light back up if you click the Power icon in the module’s upper-left (or its orange bypass dot on the main page).
I will agree that defects do often seem to slip through that more thorough testing should catch.
OK … So I gather that they have a bunch of presets that you can’t actually hear what they sound like until you load them for the two Main Engines. I gather that is because you could have multiple samples inside the preset so they disable the preview. I guess I can understand that rational.
So in the tutorial on section 8/9 they have the Noise Generator but don’t mention anything about presets. Or loading anything. then move onto 9/9 that goes through all the sample browser, but doesn’t mention anything about the presets. But with section 8/9 the sample browser selection is in the same location as the preset browser for the Main Engine, it left me confused as I guess as an uninformed user one might expect some form of continuity between the sections that are designed to look identical. Interesting UI design choice but when you dig into it enough it does sort of make sense as to the why.
Another interesting UI decision:
Main page, Sound Generators: On/off is an orange/white slider.
Main page, Effects: On/off is an orange/grey dot.
Advanced pages: On/off is a power icon.
…yet they all accomplish the same action.
This video did give a much better overview of the program than what was officially released for. Arturia. With playing around with the instrument in my DAW for several days and making some music, I think I am getting more of the hang of what it does and how to coax what I want out of it.
Things like getting the sound effects 3rd panel to work best for a LoFi song. If I make a new track and put a contestant note playing. Then in the Pure LoFi just turn off oscillator one and two so there is no notes getting played, you can get the other sounds to play constantly. Then bounce it out to an audio file so you can mix the volumes up and down to get the desired level of background noise for the song. Maybe a cheat workaround to make it work but non the less a method to get results consistently
