AriesVerb version 0.7.5 released 2010-Jan-16 Copyright (C) 2004-2010 by Christian Schüler http://www.ariescode.com Release notes ------------- This is AriesVerb 0.7.5, the first time AriesVerb is released on the Mac OS X platform! So many people have emailed asking for a Mac port, so here it is. (Well, it's only in VST for the moment, but there are VST to AU adapters available; and at least one of them is free. Running AriesVerb through an adapter was of course tested to make sure it works.) A small code optimization in the algorithm makes it run even faster on Intel processors. The default preset Temple of the Ancestors now uses less than 1% of a single core on an Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 2.2 GHz, while the sound is identically the same! The handling of the preset browser was simplified. The 'save', 'load', and 'revert' buttons are gone, mostly because their function was highly confusing to most people. They were also highly redundant. To load a preset in the new browser, simply click on it. To revert, press UNDO (all load operations are undoable). To save, use the host's save as fxp feature. So you have saved an fxp an would like it to appear in the program library. This is easy: you can simply move the fxp file into the presets folder. Under Windows, this folder is always in the same location where the dll file lives. But where is the presets folder on the Mac platform? The answer is, it's inside the bundle! Right click on the Ariesverb.vst bundle and select "Show package contents". Then navigate to Contents/Resources/Presets/. Voila! New presets ----------- Octalyzer St Pauls (no modulation) Changelog for the 0.7 branch ---------------------------- 0.7.5 - added complete support for the Macintosh OS X platform - made preset browser handling more simple and less surprising - removed the display brightness control (was a sucker for GUI performance) - further CPU optimization for the algorithm - fixed illegal characters in some preset filenames for Mac OS X - all platform specific code was abstracted, to facilitate future porting 0.7.4 - GUI multithreading hotfix - Better performance with many opened GUI windows 0.7.3 - added multilevel undo/redo functionality - added UI settings page with multiple options: * display brightness, GUI size, font, startup page - added freeze and bypass buttons - added inverter frequency as modulation target - added 3 new LFO waveshapes: square, sample&hold and noise. - added per-delay line half life modifier - redesigned the library page with revert/load buttons - consolidated modulation options onto fewer pages - longer maximum delay (128k samples, about 2.5 seconds) - waterfall diagram has better handling and labeling - save dialog has correct default path into the presets folder - fixed save dialog translates 'forbidden characters' for the filename - fixed keyboard use in Live and CuBase for entering license key - fixed keyboard use in Canabile when using keyboard as clavier - fixed deadlock on exit in Renoise while an editor window is open - fixed GUI freeze in EnergyXT when moving mouse over the GUI - fixed assertion failure in large CuBase projects under heavy load - fixed modulation state changes were not always recognized - fixed modulation depth gets clamped to the last tap with multitap - fixed mipmap chain completeness (OpenGL related) - fixed Gflop/s accounting for info page - fixed excess modulation noise in SSE2 implementation 0.7.2 - added Algorithm Page to the UI, replacing the Geometry Page - added new features "filters before output" and "tap outputs" - added emphasis filters for the nonlinear saturation - added 23 new presets (total 167) - changed lfo spread to degrees with extended range - fixed UI control for angles - fixed filename dependency, AriesVerb.dll can now be renamed - fixed front panel texture 0.7.1 - added complete new PDF documentation - added a new category for legacy AriesVerb presets - improved the plate presets - improved performance for the GUI startup time - improved some UI consistency issues System Requirements ------------------- * PC with SSE compatible processor (Intel Pentium-3, AMD Athlon-XP, or higher) * Windows XP/Vista/7 32 bit * Apple Macintosh with Intel processor * Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 or Snow Leopard 10.6 Installation ------------ This software is a VST plugin and cannot run on its own, it needs to be run inside a VST host application. See the comprehensive installation instructions in the AriesVerb manual. For Windows, move the dll file together the presets folder to a location where it can be found by the host application. Most of the time this is C:\Program Files\VstPlugins. For Mac OS X, move the Ariesverb.vst bundle to ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST.