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Unread post by gurulogic » 20 Sep 2009, 09:41

The basic idea of this workspace is a live Usine performance environment in which you don't need to spend 8 months building the one perfect patch that does it all, in fact you don't have to make any especially critical workflow decisions, just build it, play it, load your next creation...seamlessly!

The basic summary, with lots more useless notes inside is: (useless notes for tracks 1&2 are in the VSTI-Copy (2) and FX-Copy (2) patches.These are not loaded by default)

Track 1 is where you would put items that you would not want entirely reloading from disk while you're playing, such as basic control items, physical inputs and VSTI's that may use very large sample libraries, or as my use is, Molar VSTI which does not always tolerate very well being seperated from it's Monome controller.Of course you get 128 presets in track 1 that follow the 128 patches you can load for both tracks 2&3 :)

Track2 is where you would put sound generative patches, VSTI's, midi stuff whatever so long as it makes sound to send to track 3!

Track3 is where you would provide FX processing to anything that might be coming from tracks 1&2. Track3 is routed to output 1 who's master track contains the continuous loop recorder that you use in conjuction with the IB crossfader to perform flawless, uninterrupted DJ style mixes once the patches in tracks2 and 3 have finished loading.
Hard left on the crossfader activates continuous recording, hard right is 100% 4 bar captured loop playback to smooth over the patch reloading in tracks 2&3.
I did not include any mix EQ action for the crossfader as I mix on an external Mixer...

Master Section is where the continuous loop recorder,crossfader and audio outputs reside.

Saving your work is a four part process. The big "STORE" button in the ib saves track 1 preset data, "save VSTI" and "save FX" buttons in the ib prompt for save patch for tracks 1&2. then of course if you want to be able to recall saved presets in track 1 you will need to save the workspace. I recommend always saving the workspace on the default "empty" preset as I am getting console errors when reloading the workspace when loading with the normal template patches, and I am unable to figure out how to make the patches not load when the workspace is first loaded, which is what is causing the error...

So anyways, this works perfectly on my puny cpu HP TX2500 tablet without any audio glitches even when loading huge VST patches, however this might be luck,my decent quality audio hardware (or windows7?) so if it totally sucks for you don't blame me!


Now for the bad news!

Unfortunately, unless
you want to spend an
hour redirecting the 256
"Load Patch" modules
located in tracks 2&3 in
the "Select Dest" sub
patches,
track 1 patches (included
in .zip) have to
go in:

D:UsineSavesPatchLoadMethodFinal1VSTITrack

and track 2 patches (included
in .zip) have
to go in:

D:UsineSavesPatchLoadMethodFinal2FXTrack

So if you don't have a D: drive, and you actually want to use this crap, you have some effort to put in!

Of course you can remodel the root patch to your hearts desire, you will just need to delete all except one and then make 128 new copies with the same names as I used (default windows 7 naming for copies)

I don't blame you at all if you think this is all totally useless|!
Otherwise, enjoy! (I just wish I figured this out many months ago ;)

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Unread post by gurulogic » 21 Sep 2009, 23:51

fixing some things...re-upload soon and I'll even include the all so important master section this time!:)

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Unread post by gurulogic » 22 Sep 2009, 03:19

Updated:

-Included the master section so you can actually use the workspace as intended!
-Workspace now first loads empty patches to avoid Error:Internal in TMainForm when workspace first launched. (keep in mind you need to load patches "copy (2)" for tracks 2 and 3 before you will see all of my useless notes.
-Reworked preset managers for tracks 2 and 3. Now there are 4 preset slots per patch for tracks 2 and 3, and nice visible indicators to show both the active preset as well as which slots have stored presets.
-updated documentation.

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Unread post by nay-seven » 22 Sep 2009, 12:51

i have to study this quietly but this seems as an interesting project !
thanks to share anyway !

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Unread post by héliouk 6 » 22 Sep 2009, 13:36

hi gurulogic! do you have some audio exemples of what you can do with this workspace?(video would be great but...)

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Unread post by gurulogic » 22 Sep 2009, 18:34

héliouk 6, nay-seven,
thanks for the interest. I'll try to make some examples asap.Video is possible but only with my digital point and shoot camera so the audio part would be crappy unless I find an easy way to overlay nicely recorded audio.

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Unread post by gurulogic » 25 Sep 2009, 00:28

I tried making a video yesterday and successfully overlayed good audio but it was 800mb! I don't have any time to figure it out for at least another week...
Also I am having some reliability issues with the continuous looper in the master section. Sometimes it is recording distorted sound and sometimes out of sync. I don't know...?
Also I found a problem with the dry fader volume in my fx send sub patches not recalling correctly with the preset manager...

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