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Soundplane agent tips. Ive been playing with the agent and Kaivo over the weekend, so I thought Id pass on some tips. a) Don't host in EigenD. Initially I was hosting in EigenD, and was fine for smaller setups and less cpu intensive patches, but as things get hotter, I started to get lots of clicks and pops. I think the issue is EigenD has one 'fast' thread, and Kaivo is single threaded on that thread... I found it much better to host Kaivo in a DAW, so its in a different process space, and EigenD and Kaivo can get the cpu they require (different threads, different cores). (note: this is true generally for Kaivo/Aalto, not specific to soundplane agent)  b) Using Midi Rig so if you choose (a), then just create soundplane agent in a rig, connect to scaler, and disconnect pressure/frequency from midi converter.... I think you can send midi still (e.g. CCs) which can then be mapped in the DAW to plug params in the normal way. c) Using audio unit agent  as i said id recommend ag...

Soundplane agent I thought id give a few more details, as previous post was a bit of a tease :) agent talks to Kaivo/Aalto using the T3D Osc protocol, the same as the soundplane uses. when this is detected, Kaivo/Aalto change into a new 'mode', which replaces the 'key' module... - inputs are now: x,y,x,dx,dy (which replace mod,mod+1,mod+2) - these inputs (as well as pitch/gate) are all per voice (which is allocated by agent) - all inputs are floating point, so all hi-res, at eigen resolution. - messages are sent at the data rate, default =250 hz, = 250 times a second, and are 'bundled' to reduce load. - pitch optionally includes bend (per agent settings) in practice everything I tried in Kaivo appear to be 'per voice' , including (surprisingly) resonator.  In fairness Im still 'learning' Kaivo, as its pretty complex beast, to get new sounds from, and finding ways to add the per key is fun/challenging. some (slightly) technical info... I ported th...