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Interesting, sounding fine on your device as an auv3. What are your sample rate and buffer sizes Eyal?
Actually listening to your video again Eyal, and this time with headphones, and also listening to the standalone app with headphones on my device, as well as in AUM, I hear what sounds to me like a kind of distortion on all the presets. Unless this is maybe the way the original device sounds, no idea.
I tried playing around with my buffer, with a buffer of 1024 and with that as the only app running, there is less severe glitching but the sound is still different on each preset compared to the standalone - sounds like certain sounds are being shortened slightly from time to time.
Would love to hear back from others on whether you hear this slight distortion on your device whether standalone or in AUM and whether you think that is part of the sound character or a problem. If running as an AUv3 do you get heavy distortion at low buffer sizes? 1024 is the lowest buffer size I can set where the sound is even remotely acceptable, but even then it is not right. 48 kHz is the only sample rate I can test. If you do notice anything, please also email the devs, as I have done, so they know the scale of the problem and can troubleshoot it.
I tried finding some videos on the original device, sound quality of the videos isn't helping to figure out if that's how the sounds suppose to sound like. I just tried changing the buffer but sounds the same. On my video the buffer it was at 1024. I'll email the dev about it and also about a latency issue when playing the drum shots live (although i dont think the app is aimed for live drumming) and a weird thing that's happening when you play both the bass drum and the hi hat - it adds a high pitch noise.
Thnx - yes, i also noticed a bit of latency on the drum shots, even at low buffer - cheers!
Sounds good!. I love low fat snares like this. Reminds me of the Wendel, but more “natural”.
Do you have any links to vids of the original device @eylvy?
My YouTube searches for this are dominated by the awesome Soma Labs Pulsar 23.
Also worth noting that in this Pulsar drum machine app, nothing is tunable. You'll have to make your beats first with this and fit your other sounds around it.
@Gavinski : hiya. I’m not noticing glitching or latency issues running it in AUM, 48khz 1024 buffer, using Rozeta Rhythm, Elliot Garage drums preset, but the sounds are rough (which I quite like, and mentioned in my first comment above.) I don’t know if that is true to the original machine, or an artefact of the app, but either way, I positively like it. I have plenty of clean options elsewhere if I want that instead…
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Thanks Irena... Do you get noticeable glitching running at lower buffer speeds? If not it may be some kind of device issue.
Tbh I never touch the buffer, I’ve probably been running at 1024 since I started using AUM. I am messing with something now using Pulsar and three synth apps, the usual reverbs etc, , been going for over an hour, it’s been rock solid.
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Good sleuthing. I don't hear any distortion on any of these.
Seems like it’s varying with everyone. Which makes it harder for me to decide if I should take the plunge. At the low price tag I’m considering simply because I love weird distorted drums. But I’d hate to be diving into a bit of a messy app.
Alright Gav I took the plunge, and you’re right, definitely some artifacts going on when using it as an AU. Like a slight distortion or clipping on top of the sounds. Not unusable for me in most cases bc I bought it for gritty stuff, but it’s there and it’s noticeable.
@Tony2023 any ideas?
Well, there's analogue gritty and there's unwanted digital gritty 😅 - ymmv but I wouldn't personally currently use this as an auv3 even at high buffer sizes. And even the standalone has that weird distorted quality in the high end, at least on my device. I hope the devs can figure out whatever the problems are because it really would be a beautiful retro drum machine if they do.
I will say, at least for me, it doesn’t happen every time. I used it as an AU in AUM and over half the time it sounded the same as standalone. Also going into the FX section and turning off the drive effect completely helped. Granted we shouldn’t HAVE to do that to use the app.
I agree though, this will be a killer once these bugs get fixed.
@Gavinski looks like there was an update yesterday and it seems to be sounding fine to me now. How’s it working for you?
Unfortunately the auv3 still has problems at lower buffers, and the standalone app still has a clipping sound, for me anyway. There's definitely something broken here.
As that sucks. Maybe I just didn’t dive in well enough. Or maybe it’s giving me the sound I personally want 😂 I’ll check again later tonight.
I see this just had an update ‘fixing’ the glitchy sound that was there in the high end. But it sounds very flat to me. It’s like they maybe just sliced some frequencies out of the high end. Could someone who still has the older version and hasn’t updated please compare and see if you hear a difference while playing the first preset between this and the old version?
Link to a short 10-sec vid below
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