Vinny, what is happening in Strike is that, when VO focus moves to some
controls, a tool tip pops up. When that happens, VO's focus moves out of the
window. Since the plug in windows are kind of strange floating windows, and
don't show up in the regular Command-` ring, they won't receive focus
automatically when the tool tip window disappears. Instead, you're dropped back
in to the mix/edit window.
A workaround is to move directly to controls with the item chooser. This lets
you skip over the controls that bring up tool tips, but doesn't make it
possible to actually operate those controls.
Another issue that I discovered is that Transfuser freezes up VoiceOver. Don't
know why. Maybe Transfuser's window is too full of busy graphics? It doesn't
happen right away, but, soon after opening its window, I'm stuck in the eternal
busy, busy, busy, busy state.
Velvet is pretty good, but I don't think it stacks up to Lounge Lizard. The
tine harmonics sound very static. That makes all of the bright dyno pianos
sound like cheesy synthetic crap. The old school epiano presets sound accurate,
though. Lounge Lizard can produce some beautiful glassy epianos that sound
something like what an FM rhodes would sound like if it were a real instrument,
and not digitally synthesized. No idea why AIR cut corners.
Bryan
-Original Message-
From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptacc...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Vinny Pedulla
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 10:18 PM
To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com
Subject: PT 9, The Expansion Pack and Mac OS 10.6.5
Hi Folks,
I finally got my upgrade to PT 9 this weekend along with the expansion pack.
So far so good with accessing the instruments in the pack. Since they are using
the Avid library menu all the presets are available. I think Strike is very
usable not only because it's accessible, but the kits rock as well. The only
strangeness I found is the way VO behaves in the plug-in window when Strike is
instantiated. Voice Over is not very responsive and looses focus from the
plug-in window at times. I don't know if there is some funky refreshing going
on with the drum layout.
Velvet and Hybrid react more stably and all the presets can be accessed via the
librarian menu. I'll let you know how I find the last two instruments after I
get a chance to use them for a bit. I did however, upgrade to 10.6.5 to see if
that would fix the issues I was having with the Strike window, but no changes
as of yet. I did find that PT 9 does seem to work fine for me with the update,
but I did clone my drive with Super Duper before I ran the update just in case
I need to go back.
I'll keep you posted on what ever else comes up with all these areas, Vinny
