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Sooo...
After a couple of days intense working in SF
I think I am starting to see the whole picture. Wow.
When I bought it last week I did it because
I thought it was a nice and useful software.
But after the first few hours I started to get
pretty frustrated and two days later I was completely pissed.
I thought what a freaking waste of money.
Fast forward to now. Its nearly morning again and I am still sitting here,
powering through SF 10-12 hours a day since sunday.
Should have gone to sleep a long time ago but I am completely blown away now
and I still discover new things on a nearly hourly basis.
Incredible how deep this thing gets.
(And I still didnt read the manual at all. Thats my next mission...)
This is *really* *really* great stuff. For sure I am a happy camper now. :)
Best,
tL.
Tue, 2014-07-22 - 12:34 Permalink
Thanks for sharing your experience. I guess most users more or less experience a similar 'motivation curve'. Those patient enough are plentily rewarded.
We will put more effort in making this easier.
And I still didnt read the manual at all
Oh, you definitely should. Get yourself a printed copy from Amazon, if you prefer reading on the couch ;-)
Thu, 2014-07-24 - 17:35 Permalink
Well, as a HN2-user who is actually demoing SFP for the 2nd time I must say that the recent videos did help A LOT to understand much better. I feel that I'm slowly dominating this beast in terms of letting it do a portion of what I'm asking for.
But what still makes me freak out are the instrument settings. After happy sequencing and creating stuff for hours I had the crazy idea to setup a complete instrument definition in the global rack for one of my fav synths (Dune2). Thanks god I found the Alt+F4 keycombi before I was almost ready to jump out of the window...
I won't give up, though. I'm just tellin' about my latest experience. ;)
Thu, 2014-07-24 - 18:22 Permalink
Imported Dune's presets. Perfect. All sounds were there. Then started to define the instrument type like SFP told me in signal-red words.
Assigned the first patch, sound becomes muted. The asterisk is gone though (happy little success). Assigned another preset, sound is there, the category is right. Makes me wonder. Assign the next preset, its sound is muted again. No re-assign possible, read: no success. Killed the whole defintion, started from scratch. Same result. Anyway, had eventually three sounds linked to a category (signal-red is gone) and tried to assign three parts (tracks?) to three different instances of Dune with three different presets. SFP won't let me do that. I don't know why...
Anyway, I've postponed this topic for later revision. I'm glad I somehow managed to use Kontakt with three different instruments loaded so the composing fun is not harmed.
Let me ask one thing though for now: what's the advantage/point of having both global and arrangement devices (instruments)?
Thu, 2014-07-24 - 18:43 Permalink
I haven't tried, but I assume Dune can only select one sound at a time (not multi-timbral). So, if you use one sound for an instrument, it can't select another for a second instrument. That's why you get the red warnings.
You need to add multiple instances of the Dune plug-in to you arrangement rack and assign each of them a (copy of the) Dune device description (DD).
If you can do with 4 instances max, you can add 4 connectors to the device: A, B, C and D. This will allow you to use a single DD with up to 4 plug-in instances at the same time.
Let me ask one thing though for now: what's the advantage/point of having both global and arrangement devices (instruments)?
The global DDs are your respository of devices that you use frequently. You can use them in the global rack.
Arrangement devices are copies of those, or DDs that you created on-the-fly for onetime use. The copying ensures that your arrangement will still work after months, when your global DDs might have been edited or removed.