Usine Hollyhock march news

[senso]

Hello to the community,

We are all impatient to discover the new version of Usine.
We are so busy that we forgot to give news. We apologize.

I know, we are late... But we prefer delayed the launching date and give you a good first beta version. It's a choice and I'm sure that you understand.

Actually we are focusing on
- the patch library
- the quick start manual
- the user manual (more than 3000 pages)

We can't announce a precise date but be sure that it will arrive very soon.
You can take a look on the following screen shot.



Senso & the Sensomusic team.

[Floego]

Great work Senso!
For upgraders, given the changes from the old version there's no doubt the manual will be an important piece for Hollyhock

[daviche]

Impatient indeed, but I'm sure we all agree with your choice.
Good work and good luck !

[caco]

Looks well worth the wait to me

[waolelaid]

Hi Olivier it seems to be really delicious looking
and thanks for the big manual i hope it 'll be
illustrative more than the actual manual
will it be downloadable ?
i have real troubles to read on a computer
Thanx in advance
and take the time you need
Regards

[23fx23]

looks good!

[Thomas Helzle]

Very nice!

My impatience is driven by the fact that the old Usine no longer works on my Windows 8 x64 machine. It gets confused all the time and interprets midi off as on and more such nonsense, so it's pretty much unusable.

But I fully agree with your choices anyway

Cheers and thanks for the update!

Tom

[r.erorr]

Very nice!

My impatience is driven by the fact that the old Usine no longer works on my Windows 8 x64 machine. It gets confused all the time and interprets midi off as on and more such nonsense, so it's pretty much unusable.

But I fully agree with your choices anyway

Cheers and thanks for the update!

Tom

Hey, does OSC work on win8 machine?

[Thomas Helzle]

I never used OSC so I wouldn't know, but why shouldn't it?

[AndrewChi]

My impatience is driven by the fact that the old Usine no longer works on my Windows 8 x64 machine. It gets confused all the time and interprets midi off as on and more such nonsense, so it's pretty much unusable.

The old/current Usine always had a buggy MIDI-implementation, it drove me near nuts in the past, but I found a workaround!
Get a solid MIDI-capable DAW (like Reaper or Cubase), install LoopMidi (freeware) and route all your hardware midi from the DAW to seperate virtual MIDI-ports from loopMIDI. Then, get Usine to recieve only the loopMIDI-channels and it should work 10 times more solid. It works for me on Win7 64bit, I only get MIDI-gibberish every now and then in Usine this way.
If you make your setup completely MIDI-remotely controlled (no on screen actions) you can even record your full set in your DAW as MIDI tracks, and play it back in different tempo's, pitch,... This way you have true event-based recordings of your sets and the possibilities for re-recording and additional production are endless! But that's just a plus!
Hope this can help you.

I also respect Senso's choices about the release-date, but I must say I'm also impatient, since I have a big release-concert end of this week and the biggest risk on stage is still my Usine standalone version...

Godspeed Senso!

[senso]

for info,
Midi issues of the V5 belong to the past, the Midi engine has been totally rewritten.

[Thomas Helzle]

Senso: That is very good news!

andrewchi: Interesting! I was never sure what exactly is causing the problems. I use a very old LMK3 Keyboard from Doepfer which tends to send "Midi Noise" from sheer age on some controllers every now and then, which surely doesn't help the issue, but no other DAW I use ever got confused as Usine by this.
And I never found a keyboard I like better (It's the very first pre-hammer-action version).

But I think the real trouble with Usine started with Windows 8, which otherwise doesn't give me any audio related problems.

Do you find LoopMidi better than CopperLan? I recently switched from the first to the latter but haven't put it through it's paces yet.

Thanks for the ideas and inspiration!
And best of luck with the concert

Cheers,

Tom

[seamus]

I also can say the loop midi helped usine alot for me under windows 7!

[secretkillerofnames]

I've had no issues running Usine on Win7 with a Samson Carbon controller. My only problem is I'd rather be in OSX with all my other plugins!
The other day I got the disk access / DSP freeze issue I haven't had since switching from XP to OSX 5 years ago.

[Alain Vankenhove]

thanx Mr Senso & team for your news ...

[ahonoe]

Thanks for update Olivier. I know it's tough work but keep at it. You are very near the finish line.

[Thomas Helzle]

Any easter eggs cooking?

Cheers,

Tom

[woodslanding]

I'm hoping there is no april news because the beta is just SOOOO close......

[Zat0]

Hello! I was wondering if a free version of Hollyhock is gonna be available ??

Looking forward to try it !
Thanks for your work.

[headphoner]

Hi,

Any Usine Hollyhock april news?:)