PPG Wave 2.V quirk

k-bird

OK this is a slightly weird one. I've taken delivery today of the Waldorf Edition and now i have the assembled sounds of the mid-80s at my disposal. Yeehaw. Dance

But there's a really weird behaviour in Buzz.

When i program notes in and play the notes back, some of the notes get skipped; the skipping is fairly predictable. When i play the exact same sequence in via MIDI and play that track back, none of the notes get skipped. I've tried programming note-offs in, using note cut, altering the velocity, all that sort of stuff: no different. Sometimes it just misses the notes that Buzz sends to it, but only when they've been programmed, never when they've been recorded in from MIDI!

It's not that it's getting the notes and refusing to play them. If the little keyboard thingy is any indication, it just doesn't sound the notes at all.

It turns out that the crucial element is humanisation. Track in 08 0002 as a global command and although your Front 242 basslines will sound slightly wonky and manually tracked, all the notes will play properly. Almost. Higher values of the parameter (say about 0009 upwards) will drop less notes but the actual notes wander around a bit less rhythmically. You can cover for it to an extent by having a delay on top of it to fill the gaps in the notes and even things out.

Even still, with humanisation selected notes still drop--just not as often. When the notes are played in by keyboard with all the parameters recorded, none get dropped at all. It's very mysterious.

It's almost like in Buzz the PPG Wave 2.V hates having a bunch of notes played one after the other in perfect step and starts not recognising notes or something. Smile

Anyone else had this problem with any version of PPG Wave 2.V?

Thanks for reading this far! Have a little Waldorf Edition demo tune for a reward: Frontal Lobotomy
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thOke · Monk Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 416

go to pvsti preferences and enable 'constant blocksize' for the ppg wave ... i think that will fix it
It was a 'plugin issue' mentioned in previous polac manuals. all these issues are gone in the latest manual, so they probably are no issues anymore with the latest polac adapter ... but i didn't test this issue yet. Cool