ABBEY ROAD 2 BUGS

Same issues here. Another one is Program Change, at least in cubase 11 it isn’t working. I’ve also noticed that sometimes the plug-in gets out of wack and plays synthy sounds - as if maybe the samples weren’t working right and getting stretched out. Sounded terrible but reloading the instruments brings this back. It terrifies me when it comes time to print and I have to check it which is a huge time sync. It sounds so good when it works though so I’ll keep suffering through. I have ticket open but I haven’t had time to send project files because I’m trying to hit a deadline for dubbing stage. I don’t have time to troubleshoot so I’ll just pull out OT Berlin or EWHO opus during the interim. It’s a pain in the butt but you can get most libraries to sit well with ARO if you use the WAVE abbey roads bundle.

squash those bugs and then port all the Kontakt instruments over while your at it ;p

Yea, these are their flagship products so I doubt these issues will be around for too long.

Hello Angus, you may remember that I also reported similar issues with AR2 shortly after it was released. Low volume, thin sounds, synth type behaviour. I hope they can be soon addressed.

Hi,

Just upgraded to pro and I realize the Violin 1 legato has a weird sound when you play the legatos bellow. Sound like a short slap delay in the stereo field. Don't know if it was mentioned in the forum already :

C3 to Eb3; C3 to E3; C3 to F3; C3 to G3; C3 to Ab3; C3 to A3; C3 to Bb3; C3 to B3 and finaly C3 to C4 it is more obvious around C3 to B3

I also hear it on C#3 to F#3; C#3 to G#3; C#3 to A3: C#3 to B3; C#3 to C4; C#3 to C#4

I didn't spot that on core version, but here with the mic position, this "artefact" is very obvious with close mics.

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spotting more artefacts as i'm preparing my template with pro :p

Alto Legato G3 to D#4 (also G#3 to E4) has a clic C#4 to A#4 (also D4 to B4) Db3 to A3 (D3 to A#3) C3 to F3 (B3 to E3)

--edit.. oh dear it's every where.. is that my doing something wrong ? I start to check my soundcard as the glitch sounds like unproper sync soundcards or asio problems. But really It's just on these notes so I guess it's the samples. So Alto Legato Gb3 to Eb3 (G3 to E3)

I'll stop reporting this i'm not sure i'm soing something wrong please tell me if so and it takes to much time there glitches everywhere.. i'll try to hide this in the mix but would be nice to hopefully fix this because else.. solos would sound terrible.

I also noticed something yesterday in the AR2 plugin which was an inconvenience, haven't tested yet if other plugins do it but when I removed all of my unused articulations in prep for mixing (apart from the one I was keeping which was untouched) and saved, my RR options for that instrument had been reset to none. I had only set this in a couple of instruments so its not too painful to set back again but this would have been a problem if I had set this in multiple instruments in a big template or not noticed it. I only noticed it during playback when I could hear the instruments sounded different to how I had set them up originally with the RR options

i would like to know why the longs in the ensemble patch c0 is in tune and e0 is in tune but c#0 or d0 is half a semi tone out ?

you can correct this by turning the expression (mod) wheel all the way down but if you put it up it is horrible sounding and very obvious

the other articulations don't do this.

I haven't noticed anyone else comment about this but the keyswitches labeled are one octave higher than they actually are labeled as. If anyone else runs into this.

Seeing these issues and the lack of corrective action, one asks if SA is still monitoring this community since Angus moved. They seem to be busy releasing all sort of weird often free sounds libraries but neglect paying customers for what is supposed to be a unique high end product. Also the quality control at SA before releasing a 500 Euro product needs to be seriously improved.

I started testing AR2 today by simply drawing regions fro now with quarter notes with the full chromatic range of the instrument and copying as many times as there are articulations with some transpositions for the harmonics. All regions have the same parameters on track level. I tested with volume at 0dB, 100% and 50% expression and also 100% and 50% dynamics till now. I found some weird issues with the HT Trills in the high range. On Logic A#5 and B5 in Violin 2 do not sound the same as the other HT Trills. It might be a round robin issue as the Violin 1 also had the same issue with A#5 but after playing though 5-10 times it is gone. I think it is the starting note of the trill which is not the same for all pitches-.

Another point are the very high Harmonics. I am not a violinist and know from the guitar how many possibilities there are to generate the same pitch harmonics. However I noticed that A#6 till C#7 for violin 1 one actually sounds the same in height as the D#6 till F#6 harmonics and for violin 2 this issue starts a half tone lower G#6 till C#7 sound like C6 to F#7 harmonics. So A#6 respectively G#6 are sounding lower than A6 and G6.

If I find more I will repost and will also check the other issues mentioned a year ago.

I still have high hopes that the full library (Pro) which I installed yesterday does have some fixes. Note that in the past I had some good interaction with SA on a ticket for ARO one and they actually released a silent update which corrected the issue for some reason.

Hey everyone, please make sure to submit a ticket if you've experienced anything from this thread. I've been told that unless users submit tickets, there is nothing they can do... which means that a quota of users need to be submitting tickets for them to even begin an update. So, let's all submit tickets, there's a great sounding library buried in there somewhere after all...

Hi Andrew, my test was above velocity 19 so no portamento but I can confirm. With close vintage violon two at velocity 13 all transitions sound weird and there are several issues. First bad one A2 to A#2 which give sort of a clicking sound.