Software news

Hi all,

Just to let you know that we will be able to concentrate on the software side from now on and the first target is to significantly improve the firmware update procedure (directly from OwlNest).

So for those who want to play around with the firmware but are not used to terminal commands, I suggest waiting for another few days :slight_smile:

Thanks !

Woohoo! :slight_smile:

There is some issues with new software, somo combinations of Patch mode in series have “littles glitch” periodic noise, for example bias+freeverb, or some modulation and freeverbs, freverbs+freverbs,… works with overdrive+freeverb.
Is there a CPU overload, or is a buffering of series chain problem?

Anibody have this problem

sorry for my writing mistakes (somo,…anibody…) :wink:

That might be due to processor overload. Freeverb is relatively heavy and could do with some code optimisation. Likely to be the same issue with parallel processing, as it also requires both patches to run simultaneously.
We plan to measure and publish benchmarks for different patches as soon as we’re back from Frankfurt Messe.

I’m sorry to write down in french here but it’s too complicated for me because of technicals problems.
Ma pédale est de nouveau en rideau et il est impossible de la rebooter avec les indications que vous mettez ici :
http://hoxtonowl.com/wiki/Hardware_DFU
Je suis très déçu du rendu sonore de la pédale et des effets proposés. Je ne participe pas à ça pour avoir un énième phasing ou flanger ou écho ou delay mais un accès à des effets plus originaux, bizarres.
Il n’a jamais été précisé lors de la suscription qu’il fallait savoir coder pour pouvoir installer de nouveaux effets dans la pédale.

yop koza,
did you tried this procedure at http://hoxtonowl.com/wiki/Windows_drivers ?

An alpha version is currently in test. It is able to use patches that you “draw” with a software which uses a library called Pure Data, as in the following post (that you already know) :
http://hoxtonowl.com/forums/topic/delay-effect-with-sendreturn-bus-tannhauser-patch/

You can download Pure Data at http://puredata.info and its manual at http://en.flossmanuals.net/pure-data/

Objects and messages of Pure Data are not all implemented. At http://tannhauserpd.section6.ch/static/objects.html you can find which ones you can use.

You can find 2 samples at OwlWare/Libraries/Tannhauser at tannlib · pingdynasty/OwlWare · GitHub

I’m currently testing it and began created Pure Data utility tools like :

  • Audio Player to open file and test fx
  • Dry Wet mixer
  • Band Pass/Cut EQ
  • Shelving EQ
and some more

For example, I already created 3 different type of equalizers with my own frequencies I like :

  • 3 bands Lo-Hi-Mid + Volume
  • 2 bands semi parametric LowMid-HiMid
  • 2 bands baxandall-like Low-Hi + Mid factor + Volume

The baxandall-like is an EQ where Mid level is affected by Low and Hi level. When Low and Hi are low level Mid is high level and vice-versa. The factor knob indicates if its more or less affected by Low and Hi.

What I find cool is not to have the more original effect I can but to create the more personal effect I can.

I don’t know what was said on subscription but people are sharing materials through this forum and github.
And if you don’t know how to code you’ll have to rely on these people to create original effects for you and for firmwares to be available.

I also have some problem with some stock patches but I hope that they will vanish with software and firmware updates.