Axon Updated to 1.1.0
From the original Analog Industries archive. Some links and images from that era no longer resolve.
If you own Axon, hit your account in the AD store and grab v1.1.0. In this update:
Multiple Outputs. We added 7 stereo outputs, one for each voice/neuron. These are pre-mixer, so are not affected by mute, solo, pan, or fader.
Zero Reset. A third sync mode has been added, RST. In this mode, Axon syncs to host, but every time you stop the host transport, the counters in each Neuron reset to zero. The net result is that Axon becomes much more determinate. (It always was, but in this way, it starts exactly the same every time.) This makes it much less likely to start on the “and” or whatever. The downside is that the neurons lose their phase relationship if you’ve been noodling for a while, so the resulting pattern the first time you stop will be a bit different.
Bug Fixes. The timing bug in Logic has been dealt with, as well as another obscure automation bug in the AudioUnit version, and some other minor shit.
CPU Load Improvement. This is almost undetectable, maybe 1% on a modern quad-core, but it sure does make a nice bullet point.
This update is, of course, free. Go forth.
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Great, i'll download immediately the update! Thank you!
mmmhh, In Live (Win7) the individual channels sound like they are clipping
They're hot, but any clipping is post-fader in Live (and every other DAW, for that matter). You just need to turn them down.
-CR
Oops, sorry, knew i should have waited before posting - 'was just overloading the 2bus.
Thanks for the update! Widens the Axon soundpalette considerably.
Awesome. I'll download this immediately.
Thanks lads!
-Erik
CR: "They're hot, but any clipping is post-fader in Live (and every other DAW, for that matter). You just need to turn them down."
What does that mean? Something escapes me here. I thought one had to prevent the signal to go past 0 db in any stage of the chain, from input to output, avoiding overload even when the sound passes thru the insert effects. What am I missing?
thanks Adam & Chris!
"What am I missing?"
The outputs are all pre-fader, so they'll be at max volume for each voice. Each voice isn't above 0 dBFS, but if you sum them without lowering the gain on each channel, crazy clipping ahoy.
Also too, you won't actually _hear_ any clipping until your D/A clips. Up until that point, it's just numbers, right? The signal isn't distorted or anything.
Different DAWs and D/A converters have different ways of dealing with this situation, but generally speaking, clipping is a physical occurrence, and internally (up until the "master") you can be in the red all you want, for the most part.
Now, Mr. Nyquist might have some additional thoughts about this situation. I personally like to have a lot of headroom, but then again, I don't make pop music.
-CR
@pierlu: in addition to what others have said, maybe what you're missing is that you're thinking of a hardware system. The attention to levels that you speak of is correct when the chain is made up of a bunch of hardware boxes. In that case you want to avoid overloading the inputs of one box (particularly if that box happens to have an analog-to-digital converter right behind its input jacks, metaphorically speaking) with the outputs of the previous box since that will create distortion. Inside the confines of a DAW, it's all numbers and a value greater than 0dbFS is not inherently distorted by clipping. Yes, you need values less than 0dbFS by the time you send those values to your DAC, but before that they can go over zero without causing distortion. Since the whole reason for providing separate outputs for Axon's voices is so that they can be processed and mixed separately, it makes sense to present them at full volume. Yes, this means that you can't run them all into your stereo bus without attenuation and not get clipping, but if you just want to run them all into your stereo bus, that's what the stereo outs are for.
--Adam
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