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Woodpressor, new auv3 compressor

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  • SlowwFlowwSlowwFloww
    edited July 2018

    I've made a video..

    The video starts with the sidechain compressor in Caustic. Ik exported the 2 audiotracks from there and imported them in Cubasis. I loaded the Woodpressors on both tracks and.. well.. it doesn't work...

    Also -as you can see - it's really hard to use the small pulldown menu to select the compressor mode..

    http://dai.ly/x6qjnlx

  • gusgranitegusgranite

    @ALB said:
    @gusgranite - thanks so much for this. Took me awhile to realize that the transport button needed to be pressed for this to activate.

    You’re welcome. Interesting app isn’t it?

  • ALBALB

    @gusgranite said:

    @ALB said:
    @gusgranite - thanks so much for this. Took me awhile to realize that the transport button needed to be pressed for this to activate.

    You’re welcome. Interesting app isn’t it?

    Very much so - looks really good, too. Haven’t cracked the manual yet, but it’s apparently a bit deeper/more sophisticated than I first thought and has some nice tone shaping possibilities. It’s sound reminds me a bit of the DDMF stuff, which is a good thing to me. I only tried it in AUM so far - no issues as of yet.

  • woodmanwoodman

    hi all,
    tnx for using Woodpressor and posting feedback !
    some remarks/answers :

    • I'll check it on Cubase and see what the scaling does : normally Woodpressor scales in the window it gets from the host app. If that window is too small or can't be resized then obviously it will be too small right now. A possibility would be to add the choice of not rescaling but panning around in stead ...
    • as far as I can read here I assume the side chaining works when the transport is playing (which sounds normal to me)
    • I am still collecting and building some useful factory presets to include in a next version
    • Woodpressor will also come as AAX, AU and VST plugin to MacOS in a few weeks from now : I will sell it via the Mac App Store which means you won't need an iLok or computer ID in some database for the license, just the standalone app (which you can install on all your Macs once you bought it on the Mac App Store)

    Woodman
    developer Woodpressor
    [email protected]

  • gusgranitegusgranite

    @woodman said:
    hi all,
    tnx for using Woodpressor and posting feedback !
    some remarks/answers :

    • I'll check it on Cubase and see what the scaling does : normally Woodpressor scales in the window it gets from the host app. If that window is too small or can't be resized then obviously it will be too small right now. A possibility would be to add the choice of not rescaling but panning around in stead ...
    • as far as I can read here I assume the side chaining works when the transport is playing (which sounds normal to me)
    • I am still collecting and building some useful factory presets to include in a next version
    • Woodpressor will also come as AAX, AU and VST plugin to MacOS in a few weeks from now : I will sell it via the Mac App Store which means you won't need an iLok or computer ID in some database for the license, just the standalone app (which you can install on all your Macs once you bought it on the Mac App Store)

    Woodman
    developer Woodpressor
    [email protected]

    Good luck with the Mac launch! Looking forward to the presets. Thanks.

  • SlowwFlowwSlowwFloww
    edited July 2018

    • I'll check it on Cubase and see what the scaling does : normally Woodpressor scales in the window it gets from the host app. If that window is too small or can't be resized then obviously it will be too small right now. A possibility would be to add the choice of not rescaling but panning around in stead ...

      • as far as I can read here I assume the side chaining works when the transport is playing (which sounds normal to me)

    Hi @woodman ... As I told in my previous post the sidechain function does not work in Cubasis.

    I've made a video..

    The video starts with the sidechain compressor in Caustic. Ik exported the 2 audiotracks from there and imported them in Cubasis. I loaded the Woodpressors on both tracks and.. well.. it doesn't work...

    Also -as you can see - it's really hard to use the small pulldown menu to select the compressor mode.

  • woodmanwoodman

    hi @SlowwFloww
    I'll check the side chain and try to find a fix.
    I am already working on the scaling to allow to zoom in and pan around.
    best rgds,
    Woodman

  • SlowwFlowwSlowwFloww

    @woodman said:
    hi @SlowwFloww
    I'll check the side chain and try to find a fix.
    I am already working on the scaling to allow to zoom in and pan around.
    best rgds,
    Woodman

    Ah okay, that's great.. I bought the plugin just for the sidechain feature...

  • thenonanonymousthenonanonymous
    edited August 2018

    So does the side-chaining work in AUM? and/or Audiobus? Why would the transport need to be running for side-chaining to work? That doesn't make sense.

    Definitely interested in buying this for the AU and side-chaining features, if they work.

  • ALBALB

    @thenonanonymous said:
    So does the side-chaining work in AUM? and/or Audiobus? Why would the transport need to be running for side-chaining to work? That doesn't make sense.

    Definitely interested in buying this for the AU and side-chaining features, if they work.

    Whether it makes sense to you or not, the side-chaining does work in AUM, but only with the transport activated. That is my experience. Haven’t tried it in AB.

  • cronycrony
    edited August 2018

    OMG missed that beauty... :)

    Just missing Program Changes I guess...Can you midi control it ? Let's say, with AUM ?

  • thenonanonymousthenonanonymous

    @ALB said:

    Whether it makes sense to you or not, the side-chaining does work in AUM, but only with the transport activated. That is my experience. Haven’t tried it in AB.

    Thanks for the feedback, great that it works.

    I mention about the transport because I don't actually use the host transport... so... I'd have to run the transport for no other reason, which seems odd to me because why should the compressor and key AUDIO signals be affected by the transport? ... anyhow.....

  • TelefunkyTelefunky

    a sidechain without transport running would be just a static setting - no chain needed ;)

  • thenonanonymousthenonanonymous
    edited August 2018

    @Telefunky said:
    a sidechain without transport running would be just a static setting - no chain needed ;)

    Are you talking about the case where you have a prerecorded audio file or MIDI keying the input?

    What I'm trying to do is use my guitar input signal as key into my compressed guitar fx signal... a "ducking" technique

  • TelefunkyTelefunky

    yes, I was thinking DAW context - you have a valid point on live use. :+1:

  • ALBALB

    @thenonanonymous said:

    I mention about the transport because I don't actually use the host transport... so... I'd have to run the transport for no other reason, which seems odd to me because why should the compressor and key AUDIO signals be affected by the transport? ... anyhow.....

    My uninformed, completely baseless guess is that by running the transport, some midi message is being sent from the instance that is the sender to the instance that is the receiver (or the other way around), “activating” the relationship. But why must it be done this way? Could another way work? Absolutely no clue here...

  • Telstar5Telstar5

    @RockySmalls : Is this significantly better than the compressors already on Cubasis 2.5?

  • RockySmallsRockySmalls
    edited August 2018

    @Telstar5 said:
    @RockySmalls : Is this significantly better than the compressors already on Cubasis 2.5?

    I wish I could tell you. I still haven’t purchased it as I am waiting to hear something from @SlowwFloww or the Dev or perhaps some other user that the side chain CAN actually function in Cubasis. If there is an update that fixes it OR maybe something that SlowwFloww didn’t know to activate to get it working there. IF it does do the sidechaining in Cubasis then i will be happy with that function and a compressor that is at least equally as good as the others.. though personally I would prefer a more simple envelope Gate AU with the side chain for my purposes.
    The Woodpressor and AudioLayer ( when the glitches are sorted ) are first in my sights with funds ready for purchase asap.
    Sorry I can’t help you further, i am being a bit frugal these days, no itunes gift card discounts makes it harder snatch up every interesting thing in this fast moving ios music world..
    @SlowwFloww .. any more news on sidechain in cubasis. did the update help or any tips from dev or somesuch??
    @woodman ... any news on an update to fix tiny GUI and sidechain in cubasis?
    cheers all

  • woodmanwoodman

    hi all,
    I just released Woodpressor version 1.2
    Side chain now works for Cubasis2 and it now also works without the transport playing !
    For host windows which are too small or can't be resized you can now zoom the UI (press the "Woodpressor" logo).

    Some technical background : the reason for the transport playing in my first implementation is that plugins on different tracks can receive audio shifted in time (due to and caused by latency of the specific plugins). Therefore I used timestamps to match the audio from the send Woodpressor to the receive Woodpressor, however timestamps are only updated (incremented) by the host when transport is playing. But this indeed made "live" mode impossible so in this update I added additional code to handle the case where timestamps passed by the host are not incrementing by generating them myself.

    If anybody still encounters problems, let me know ([email protected])

    best rgds,

    Wim

  • RockySmallsRockySmalls

    @woodman said:
    hi all,
    I just released Woodpressor version 1.2
    Side chain now works for Cubasis2 and it now also works without the transport playing !
    For host windows which are too small or can't be resized you can now zoom the UI (press the "Woodpressor" logo).

    Some technical background : the reason for the transport playing in my first implementation is that plugins on different tracks can receive audio shifted in time (due to and caused by latency of the specific plugins). Therefore I used timestamps to match the audio from the send Woodpressor to the receive Woodpressor, however timestamps are only updated (incremented) by the host when transport is playing. But this indeed made "live" mode impossible so in this update I added additional code to handle the case where timestamps passed by the host are not incrementing by generating them myself.

    If anybody still encounters problems, let me know ([email protected])

    best rgds,

    Wim

    hi Wim, fantastic news.. and just what I was waiting to hear..
    . heading to the app store right now..

  • RockySmallsRockySmalls

    @woodman

    Hi Wim, just one niggle.. ( isn’t there always ). in Cubasis the multi stage zoom works great in the main window BUT the advanced window won’t scroll and as you need to have the top of the main window visible you can never get to the lower Advance parameters except by going back to the tiny window...

  • woodmanwoodman

    @RockySmalls : ok tnx for reporting, will be fixed in next version
    best rgds,
    Wim

  • thenonanonymousthenonanonymous

    @woodman said:
    hi all,
    I just released Woodpressor version 1.2
    Side chain now works for Cubasis2 and it now also works without the transport playing !
    For host windows which are too small or can't be resized you can now zoom the UI (press the "Woodpressor" logo).

    Some technical background : the reason for the transport playing in my first implementation is that plugins on different tracks can receive audio shifted in time (due to and caused by latency of the specific plugins). Therefore I used timestamps to match the audio from the send Woodpressor to the receive Woodpressor, however timestamps are only updated (incremented) by the host when transport is playing. But this indeed made "live" mode impossible so in this update I added additional code to handle the case where timestamps passed by the host are not incrementing by generating them myself.

    Thanks for the update and info @woodman! I've decided to purchase, will let you know if there are any issues, etc.

  • thenonanonymousthenonanonymous
    edited August 2018

    Alright, so tested sidechain in both Audiobus3 and AUM (I’m running latest iOS11 on iPad6) and got it working quickly with no issues in both cases! So... pretty happy about this. Rated it 5 star on app store.

    Small positive critique: for the SideChain SEND instance... I noticed the “threshold” control is greyed out (which makes sense) but that the other controls aren’t and that it’s possible to still tweak them... but... they don’t seem to do anything (which also makes sense to me)... so just a bit confusing that not ALL of the compressor controls are greyed out in the SEND instance.

  • woodmanwoodman

    @thenonanonymous : tnx ! and good point about the Send controls, I'll fix it in one of next versions ...
    best rgds,
    Woodman

  • woodmanwoodman

    hi all,
    Woodpressor v1.3 is released which (besides a bugfix for Auria Pro) now stores user presets in your iCloud Drive (when enabled). This makes the presets available (and synced and backed-up) on all your devices.
    And I am currently adding Midi Program Change to switch the presets (soon to come)
    best rgds,
    Woodman

  • chisel316chisel316

    How's the CPU usage?

  • thenonanonymousthenonanonymous

    Seems pretty decent to me... I quickly tried just opening a bunch of instances (maybe 5 or 6) watching the CPU in AUM... and the increase seemed fairly minimal. I wasn't using all those compressor instances to heavily process audio though, so take that with a grain of salt. Also maybe relevant is that I'm using an iPad6thGen.

  • chisel316chisel316

    @thenonanonymous said:
    Seems pretty decent to me... I quickly tried just opening a bunch of instances (maybe 5 or 6) watching the CPU in AUM... and the increase seemed fairly minimal. I wasn't using all those compressor instances to heavily process audio though, so take that with a grain of salt. Also maybe relevant is that I'm using an iPad6thGen.

    Thanks for the reply!

  • chisel316chisel316
    edited August 2018

    Oh man! I got Woodpressor setup tonight with my AUM hardware setup using a Kick drum from the Eurorack into the side chain send channel that's triggered from Pamela's New Workout which is triggered from the DIN sync on the Social Entropy Engine. The sound doesn't route anywhere. It's just a trigger for the compressor. Then I have the receive side chain channel on my master track. Lastly, I stuck an AUM gain plugin in front of the Woodpressor send instance and assigned it a CC on my Launch Control XL so when I want to dial in side chain compression, I just turn up the knob! The beauty of having it connected to Pamela's New Workout is that I can make any pattern I want from the Kick. I can have a straight four to the floor or create a Euclidean rhythm with probability etc... The possibilities are endless! To make it even cooler, I have the Kick drum signal running into Mutable Instruments Clouds which has a nice level meter so I can see the side chain signal without looking at the iPad! I'm a happy camper!

    Peace \/
    chisel316

    youtube.com/chisel316

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