What’s next for Ess / Fors?

Thanks!

Just good old C++ and JUCE.

11 Likes

A little thing made with Pivot, all sounds except choirs is the synth.
I really like sounds like the main droning bass, some movement a feeling like its holding back a little. Im no sound design genious so I used the reese bass preset and went from there :smiley:

14 Likes

it’s a little bit OT, but how can one do a dedicated (push or other) control surface for a m4l device as done with dyad?

1 Like

Great that you’re moving further into VST/AU territory.

I’ve only tried the lite version of Pivot so far, but I really like it.

2 Likes

Just been trying out Pivot-Lite - just want to mirror what @Daniel said above, it’s awesome to see Pivot-Lite running in Cubase in Windows!

Really liking Pivot-Lite so far, and yes - this is way more fun than a demo :slight_smile:

I’ve been testing Pivot-Lite and will go for the full version soon. It is simple and awesome!
Thank you @Ess
My wish list:

  1. Implement MIDI Program Change to switch presets.
  2. Make random buttons MIDI mapable
4 Likes

Just picked up the full version after using Pivot-Lite, was an absolute no brainer after using it. Really seems to hit the sweet spot in terms of complexity and approachability, and I love how “pure” (for want of a better term) it sounds. I’m also a big fan of the lack of authorisation requirements and the small file size!

My only request would be some sort of undo/history feature, and maybe an option to assign modulators to panning (unless I’ve missed that?)… but those are absolutely minor requests. I hope you sell tons, you deserve it.

5 Likes

Instabuy here. Such a gorgeous sounding fm foundation you make. This in Bitwig already feels like I have a dozen Digitones on steroids.
Really great work man.

2 Likes

Thanks everyone! So happy there’s so many positive reactions to this release. :slight_smile:
In other news, wrapping up 1.1 which will add MPE pitch bend support (note expression in the CLAP version) among other things.

Wouldn’t program change be a bit of an issue since the preset list isn’t finite? Curious about the use case here, would be good to know how you would use this so I can think about some ways to achieve it. :slight_smile:

If your DAW supports undo for 3rd party plugins (which almost all of them do afaik) it’ll just follow the undo/redo of the DAW.

No stereo action besides the two effects, so that’s correct – panning the modulators themselves is interesting but would probably require some elaborate changes to make it useful. Just panning the modulators only work if the whole signal chain is in stereo which would mean that the whole oscillator structure would need to be doubled up. Even then I’m not so sure that it’d be worth the performance hit though.

And thanks! Really appreciate it.

9 Likes

regarding the preset question. it is super usful when planning a live set and then one can switch between the presets from clip to clup. usually vsts have a seperate folder where midi pc presets are stored in (eg madrona labs aalto).

super nice device btw. love that is was super obv how to map it to my roto control:)

One solution can be aditional list where I can pick 16 or more presets available for Program Change - similar as in Sonic Charge Synplant 2 or even in NI FM8.

Yeah that makes sense, that was kind of my thought too. If I would implement it I’d add some logic for a special folder called “Pgm” or something like that which would map directly to the CC value (128 presets). Seems pragmatic and simple.

8 Likes