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General Category => Gladiator => Topic started by: Markus Krause on November 10, 2009, 05:14:20 PM
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This is the right place to post feature requests for Gladiator.
Please keep in mind that there are also techncial restrictions and we can not fullfill everyone's needs.
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Over 60 views but no answer on the other forum so I'll try here! :-)
Can I please be able to resize the GUI so the whole thing shows up on a 13" Macbook running Logic. Meantime it's too big and the bottom is outta sight, man.
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Can I please be able to resize the GUI so the whole thing shows up on a 13" Macbook running Logic. Meantime it's too big and the bottom is outta sight, man.
Yeah, it sticks out a little on my laptop too (which is my main DAW and more powerful than most people's desktops lol).
Hard to say what would be the best route here :/ But some way of managing the space would be great. I know most modern screens are wider than they are tall, maybe there could be a "wide" skin?
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monophonic legato :)
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Pls, have same problem - no TranceGate @MacBook ;-/
Over 60 views but no answer on the other forum so I'll try here! :-)
Can I please be able to resize the GUI so the whole thing shows up on a 13" Macbook running Logic. Meantime it's too big and the bottom is outta sight, man.
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monophonic legato :)
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rsp
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Over 60 views but no answer on the other forum so I'll try here! :-)
Can I please be able to resize the GUI so the whole thing shows up on a 13" Macbook running Logic. Meantime it's too big and the bottom is outta sight, man.
I have the same problem on my laptop and the same feature request :)
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A much better way of displaying third party presets including the ability to create our own categories/subfolders....and also the ability to have the third party glb's appear permanently whenever I load G2.
rsp
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A much better way of displaying third party presets including the ability to create our own categories/subfolders....and also the ability to have the third party glb's appear permanently whenever I load G2.rsp
Both the browser and GUI issues need addressing. There's a reason Native Instruments and Spectrasonics are "top" in the softsynth field and a big reason is they've got the "whole package" - not just great sounds but a comprehensive way to browse them and, in the case of NI, resizable GUIs. (Kore/Kontakt)
As Gladiator gets an increasing number of presets it's also increasing frustrating and time-wasting trying to find the sound you want and it's only going to get worse. Ditto the disparity between ie 13 inch laptops and 28 inch home DAW monitors is only going to increase.
I can't understand why anyone would release a new synth nowerdays without having those two fundamental issues addressed - certainly not if they expect to become one of the top softsynth companies.
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A much better way of displaying third party presets including the ability to create our own categories/subfolders....and also the ability to have the third party glb's appear permanently whenever I load G2.
rsp
Yes I would also like this very much. It would also be nice if each preset had a tag like "pad" or "lead" etc. This would need to be combined with a search windows so that you could search for all pads among both the factory/expansion presets and third party, etc.
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monophonic legato :)
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rsp
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I just finished reading a post on the old forum (http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3343013) which explains why it hasn't been implemented. What about setting the second voice to start at the same position on the waveform's timeline where the first was? If that method is doable, it'd also be a nice way of achieving a new kind of polyphonic "true" legato.
Alternatively, what about using hard-coded pitch bends for monophonic legato? Would that severely degrade the quality (in a negative way -- some edge/dirt isn't a bad thing) or mess with the formant too much?
Oh, and also, sample import/resynthesis to osc 1/2 and 3/4 waveforms would be awesome...worth the price of at least two expansions!
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Monophonic legato definitely.
It's too bad to not be able to play gladiator like one of the vintage mono synths.
Also a shuffle knob for the ARP.
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I understand there's a visual representation for the wave HCM snapshots, but what about some kind of live oscilloscope that visually represents what the waveform looks like that you've created? It's not crucial but it'd be interesting to see what the sum of all waveforms look like... Perhaps it might even assist in sound design for some?
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Hi,
Just realised that 2.2 has midi learn.
However I would really prefer it done how most other software does it, via the right click select midi learn functionality.
Two main reasons: It is more or less the industry standard so I don't have to remember something different for Gladiator2, but more importantly I would also like it to have a midi unlearn function which afaik is currently missing.
thanks
rsp
oh and happy new year to all.
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A much better way of displaying third party presets including the ability to create our own categories/subfolders....and also the ability to have the third party glb's appear permanently whenever I load G2.
rsp
+1
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Tip: The midi learn configuration is stored in Gladiatormidi.cfg (plugin folder). You can reset all midi CC assignments by deleting this file.
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I know that, but suppose it is only the last midi learn I want to unlearn not all of them.
rsp
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Can we have an arpeggiator "lock" function as found on REFX's Nexus, Papen's Blue and, I believe, the Access Virus.
Presently if you program a cool arp you have to copy it, mouse up the preset browser, choose a new sound, mouse down to the arp, paste...repeat ad nauseum until you find the sound/arp combination you want.
It's a workflow killer. :mad:
Tthis could be extended to the OSC/FX/Filter sections so that you could load/Randomize the preset but keep the section you already liked.
ie the OSC are all perfect but you want to Randomize the FX - you just lock the OSC and hit the Randomize button.
Even better you could load a new preset but keep the old presets Arp/FX etc.
This plus a comprehensive preset tagging/rating/search page would take Gladiator to a whole new level, IMHO. 8)
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Because of my other post, I post this as a request here:
it would be great to have a 64 bit version to be able to have instances of Gladiator open.
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What? I'd like to opt for a third matrix page that deals with the matrix layout of patches themselves.
Why? Once you've found your modulations it's sort of tedious to try and find alternative settings or simply finetune them.
Suggestion:
(http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/6223/gladiatorfr.jpg)
Note(s): All sliders only affect used matrix entries. Functions to be discussed. ;-)
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The ability to save and load arpeggios separately from the rest of the patch would be handy but not a big deal.
The one thing I would really like, other than mon-legato, is a reset to 0 function. Many VSTs have a right-click option or double-click to reset to 0. Sometimes when I try to get a value to 0 it won't quite hit 0, it overshoots it by just a tiny bit and I try to go back and forth, up and down, trying for way too long to get the value to 0.
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Arp Swing
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The ability to save and load arpeggios separately from the rest of the patch would be handy but not a big deal.
Marry this with the ability to "lock" the arp so it was independent of the patch and it'd be near perfect.
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I would love to have is a simple filter for the 5th OSC alone. Even just a simple cutoff switchable between LP/HP without even rez would be handy and even more so if it were able to be altered in the mod matrix.
Another thing that would be nice is individual oct/semi/fine controls for OSCs 2 and 4.
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It would be nice if the waveforms for osc 5 could be available for osc 1/2 and 3/4 also :-)
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Hello Cjohs,
It would be nice if the waveforms for osc 5 could be available for osc 1/2 and 3/4 also :-)
OSC5 is a sample based oscillator. It is not related to the HCM synthesis OSCs (1/2, 3/4). That's why the waveforms not available.
Hello Burkuagh,
I would love to have is a simple filter for the 5th OSC alone. Even just a simple cutoff switchable between LP/HP without even rez would be handy and even more so if it were able to be altered in the mod matrix.
we will implement your suggestion in future products.
The ability to save and load arpeggios separately from the rest of the patch would be handy but not a big deal
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Solution: Select an emply slot and load a patch with the desired arp. Then press 'copy' in arp and select the destination patch. Then press paste in arp.
a reset to 0 function. Many VSTs have a right-click option or double-click to reset to 0. Sometimes when I try to get a value to 0 it won't quite hit 0, it overshoots it by just a tiny bit and I try to go back and forth, up and down, trying for way too long to get the value to 0.
This is already supported. Press 'ctrl' + left mouse button or 'strg' + left mousebutton.
Hello PHY6,
Arp Swing
we will do some experiments with this.
Best Regards
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I would like to see an expansion pack of vocals. Real voice samples with HCM would be awesome. As well as the usual oohs, aahs and choirs I would be interested in rhythm and percussive voices. I know Gladiator has plenty of 'vocal' patches but real voices would be a great addition.
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I really like the idea of additional vocal sounds. It's definitely a hot canditate for additional content.
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You make it and they will come :D
I will be the first to buy it.
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A taggable preset browser with full support for custom user banks and third party banks. Thats probably my number one request for Gladiator.
Number two would be a layout optimized for screens that are wider than they are tall. My laptop can handle a dozen instances of Gladiator with its processor, but can't fit the whole interface on the screen.
(actually I think I sent these requests to Bastiaan directly along with some others, so I won't keep rambling on..)
The one thing I would really like, other than mon-legato...
Just use 1 voice + legato for mono legato, though I would like a retrigger on/off option. Gladiator always retriggers, which is normally just fine for me, but sometimes I'd like the option for it to.. well.. not.
edit- after reading around, I think you meant "do not retrigger on legato". There seems to be some technicl difficult with HCM that limits surrounding that.
However I know its possible to disable retriggering of envelopes, which would be very useful in itself, and also since you can control the start point of the HCM spectrum, it should be able to pick up where the last note left off. I don't think there's any technical reason those things can't be done at least. Maybe its not "true mono-legato" but it would definitely work for all intents are purposes that I can think of. (I'm not saying that is trivial to do, just that its possible, decoupling the envelopes could be difficult for instance, as well as other things that I'm not aware of)
I'd also like it if Gladiator could "jump back" to the last note, if its still being held down, retriggering or not.
I would love to have is a simple filter for the 5th OSC alone. Even just a simple cutoff switchable between LP/HP without even rez would be handy and even more so if it were able to be altered in the mod matrix.
Another thing that would be nice is individual oct/semi/fine controls for OSCs 2 and 4.
Osc 5 does need a simple filter or effect that is modulatable I agree.
A modulatable "detune" parameter for 2/4 would be nice.
I really like the idea of additional vocal sounds. It's definitely a hot canditate for additional content.
Definitely, more large-choir and realistic single syllables would be absolutely amazing in Gladiator. :)
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Very cool that you are adding a filter to the 5th OSC. I almost missed that part when reading through the thread. ;D
One simple addition to the 5th osc sounds I would love is just a simple run of the mill sine waveform. I found myself wanting one there in a patch I was messing around with today.
Another thing that is probably too much to hope for anytime soon, but maybe down the road at some point, would be to have 2 separate filters that can run parallel or serial. I end up using the first FX for a LP filter since there are so many phenomenal textures you can create using the main filter and I always wonder how many more sounds could be created if I had 2 copies of the main filter.
Oh.. and thanks a million for the heads up about the ctrl-click to reset to 0. I must have missed that in the PDF. I had a lot of frustrating moments in the past where I actually ended up going into windows and slowing down my mouse speed to almost nothing to get a knob back to 0. :laugh:
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Another thing that I keep coming up against when working is wanting a longer setting for tempo-based modulation like LFOs. Sometimes I want really really long sweeps that sync up with the song and currently I have to hand-draw them in with my sequencing software and its not always very handy to do.
Would it be possible to put in some kind of multiplier that can be applied to the entire patch? So that way you could set it to multiply by 1/2 and every tempo-based parameter is double in length. This would be a fun feature when using things like trancegate and other tempo-based effects.
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Master tuning, Just Intonation, programmable additional scales (something like Scala scales files import).
Already asked into the old KVR forum, but I ask for it here again, just for reminding.
These are some crucial missing functions for Gladiator to be a complete musical instrument.
Thank you.
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Thank you for your suggestions.
A 'Smart Just Intonation' mode is already implemented. It forces chords to be strictly harmonic:
- Click on Microtuning
- Select pure IQM
Best Regards,
Markus Feil
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I hate to sound like I keep asking for things but.... A few other things I would love on Gladiator.
A mute option on the Mod Matrix so you can toggle them off and on without having to change their level to 0 or setting their source to empty or w/e.
More modulation options. Ones I would really really like are:
Osc 1/2 and Osc 3/4 Phase.
Filter Send.
Feedback/Delay Gain.
LFO speed.
Unison spread.
*I know it doesn't currently exist but a Post-FX volume control that is able to be modulated would be handy.
More Morph Modes.
I would love more of the /\ and \/ varieties with different ranges. For example there is currently a \25%/\/\ mode. I would love something just like this but without the \ in the beginning. Where it would just go back and forth 25% of the range with the beginning and end of the range determined by the start control.
This would be the easier option, I believe, rather than the one I would really love which would be adding another knob with an end setting that does what the start does only on the other end.
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Wav /Aif import to use it as a multi-FX 8) , GOD I LOVE THIS SYNTH , best synth ever.
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Mousewheel support for exact and incremental changes in values.
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Thank you for your suggestions. We have read them and will evaluate if we can implement them in our free updates.
Best Regards,
Markus Feil
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Would it be possible for you guys to add a compressor to the distortion module in Gladiator similar to the one in FilterBank? That's the one thing I am really missing in gladiator.
I love so many of the FX but so many times I want to have it go through a compressor before feeding into the FX... So i have to use all external FX plugins which is okay but it makes storing patches more difficult due to having to save a mixer track and load them both every time I want to use it.
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I like Gladiator but find myself limited in a way or another. What I expect from a software like this:
- sophisticated random mode: like NI Absynth for example where you can enter the amount of mutation / random values and go back. Best thing would be the posibility to exclude some elements from random generation (for example osc 5, osc 1/2 or FX)
- resynthesis tool for mac - if the software is for mac the tools should be as well
- own filter for osc 5. The best of course would be 2 filters (like waldorf or maybe like in the new synth) with a mixer in front ;) ... i think the filter is outstanding but two ... i would definitely pay for this upgrade
- modulation destination list: please consider submenues! it's an awful long list
- wave list: same thing
- more mod destinations (i don't know why not every knob is a mod destination)
- at least 1 additional envelope as a source for the matrix and maybe 1-2 + lfos
- envelopes: ADSDSR (standard or optional). I miss this for pad sounds
- searchable preset browser with tags
- more morph patterns (maybe paint option ;) )
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- microtuning
this would made the ultimative synth:
- lfo waveform: a paint option
- envelopes: a paint option
- morph pattern: paint option
nevertheless great synth so far!
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when next update for gladiator comes, please remember to fix the skins so the unusefull resynthesis and vocoder buttons disappear( as Bastiaan promised me in an e-mail long time) just a reminder :)
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A filter mix knob could be handy so that the dry signal could play along side of the filtered signal. Gladiator has a huge number of absolutely beautiful filters and this option would add new depth to every single one of them. And of course this would be even more spectacular if it were a parameter that could be controlled in the mod matrix.
Another thing I have always wanted is a draw mode for the step LFO. Currently when you click on one of the sliders and move the mouse up and down has an effect but if you move it laterally there is none, it locks onto a single slider. What I want is the ability to click one slider and drag the mouse laterally across the window and have each slider jump to the cursor's position so that I could quickly draw curves, fades, and full waveforms with ease.
Also a save option, similar to the one in Electrax, would be most welcome for the OSC+Mixer section and a save for individual OSC configs given the insanely huge number of sounds that can come out of a single OSC. The ability to save the FX would be handy or even just the ability to swap the order of the FX. I don't know how many times I have wanted to change the order of the FX and have had to do it by hand which is a bit cumbersome though not really a big deal. :P
Anyway... Don't take my constant suggestions as any kind of negative judgement of the synth. Gladiator sits at the top of the synth hierarchy and has very few peers. I am glad you guys make such inspiring software.
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A much better way of displaying third party presets including the ability to create our own categories/subfolders....and also the ability to have the third party glb's appear permanently whenever I load G2.
this would be my biggest wish for the next update
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Hi,
me a very new user have a request. I miss in the lists (patchlists, wavelist etc.) the alphabetical order. It would be much easier to find items in a sorted list and I think it wouldn't be a huge work to implement a sort function.
Thanks
netwalker
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Modulation routings for "pitch" and "fine" that would affect pitch or fine tunings for all OSCs at once.
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I really miss that the filter and volume envelope parameters can't be chosen as modulation destinations.
These possibilities would not be a unique feature but it's a must for the imitation of the behavior of a lot of natural instruments.
The most competitors offer this possibility.
An example:
I would like to program a simple guitar sound. If I pluck the bottom E string, the sound will last for more than 10 seconds.
The sound of the top E string will barely last for about 3 seconds. Thus I need the release time of the volume envelope as destination and key tracking as modulator.
The same situation at keyboard instruments. Higher sounds will last shorter.
The list of user cases could be continued.
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You can always set up the filter and/or amp envelopes in the mod matrix as sources pointing to whatever destination you want and then set another modulator with whatever source you want with the destination set to the matrix number that the filter and/or amp envelopes are on.
Slightly cumbersome compared to having the envelopes as destinations but still doable.
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Thanks for the proposal but it is not what I actually need.
By your method you can modulate the whole envelope but not any parts of the envelope like attack or release times.
The most well known synthesizer allow the modulation of single envelope parameters.
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CC Midi learn, either right click assign as many software instruments do, or at least like the help item in ElectraX or at the very least how it was done in 2.2 and 2.3 Gladiator.
Going back to 2.2 and 2.3 when I am moving my mac to 64bit isn't a sensible option for me.
thanks
rsp