Loomer Architect Good or Not

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  1. Polomo

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    https://www.loomer.co.uk/architect.htm

    Modular Midi (Feel very like Reaktor)

    It tried it for some days and I have to say
    Love it but it's a bit to expensive in my Opinion.

    It's the first Appegiator /Chorder / Sequencer / etc which don't make any problems on my system (Cthulhu crazy 2147 on transponder Error Cream some strange pattern .)
    And that's the funny Part . It´s a 0.1.x Beta and better than all I ever used (for Midi Stuff)

    So what do you guys think great or not ?
     
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  3. Xupito

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    Interesting. It seems to have been developed with Cycling74 Max.

    Still haven't tested it.
    Have you tried MuTools MUX?
     
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    It looks very promising. Will check it out.
     
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    Thank you. This truly is a powerful MIDI platform. Modulation like Bitwig and connections like Max. Tiny footprint and best of all: the beta actually works in a stable manner inside Maschine standalone and fills the gaping MIDI holes in that software.
     
  6. Polomo

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    Yes I did
    and I like it a lot but on one of my Setups I got some stability problems (OBS for some Video Stuff is not the best Environment for it :winker:)
    (Maybe it's now better I tested 7, last Year)
     
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  7. Xupito

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    Oh my goodness gracious me... this is a winner!!
    I've just played with it and read the manual. I'm not ashamed to say I got a magnificent boner.

    This is clearly aimed to fill the void left by Cycling74 Max when they decide to drop VST support and stick only with Ableton M4l plugins/extensions. Money talks.

    But it's still a VSTi plugin itself besides being standalone. I'll resume the main pros:
    - Very small RAM footprint
    - I don't need to test it much to tell it's fast
    - You can do pretty much everything MIDI related. The step sequencer user paradise. Period.
    - Its base is a modular host that can host VST2/VST3 among other features.
    - You can create custom GUI (panel), something until now only MUX could do.
    - You can program the shit out of it using Lua (embedded real-time programming language, used also BTW in MIDIGuitar). This made me crush for it. And you have a powerful logger (insanely powerful for debugging complex graphs, not to tell programming in LUA)

    - It's a mini-DAW itself. Damn... they're the men. Hats off...

    I think it uses JUCE and the Tracktion Engine super-extension (mini-DAW, modular, rings a bell right). Cycling MAX is also built using JUCE.

    Damn I'm so late... but I couldn't help to post this
     
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  8. Exidus

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    It seems like a really useful software, esp. with that nice piano roll seq editor...
    It reminds me strongly of Usine but without the 1000 different windows popping here and there...
     
  9. Polomo

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    A little Project I made just for the warm-up
     
  10. Xupito

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    Very cool man!
    Since saving projects it's locked I assume its best current use is as a VSTi? Meaning the DAW project itself saves the state.
     
  11. Polomo

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    I bought it
    But hope for all there will be a keyed version in some time :wink:
     
  12. Delay

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    this is sick, review coming soon. thx for share.
     
  13. Xupito

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    Cool, good for you! :wink:
    Enjoy it and keep sharing the dope things you're doing.
    Who knows, even I could buy it...
     
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    Or put everything you built into a Macro in Architect and save that. Panel layout is saved but you will need to remap the MIDI controls upon loading.
     
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    The developer, Colin, has been working on this since 2012. It's been an extraordinary labor of love, and the KVR Loomer forum is naked evidence of that. On top of that Colin is the most chilled dev ever, seriously.
     
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  16. Pinkman

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    This is one we should buy.

    Support each other.
     
  17. Xupito

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    I totally agree, even more if it's mainly a one man work. It's very rare for me to write such high compliments like I did in my second post. I'm basically a beginner in other areas but when it comes to modular hosts with advanced MIDI features I know the stuff.
     
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