My Change Requests of the Gemini Firmware

UDO Audio Gear Super Gemini
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Owning the Gemini for some months now, I am keen on UDO addressing these issues in a future update. What do you think?

    • Modulation AT → VCF slider does not work
    • Hold Button: held notes are often stopped randomly after some time
    • User Waves are not loaded into LFO1
    • Modulation Matrix Velocity → Attack of ADSR is sometimes wrong when A is set to 10s.
    • White Noise Waveform of LFO2 has often no effect on parameters like DDF or filter, I would expect Rate should LFP filter and boost the low frequency noise.
    • I’d like to see an accelerate function for the mod amount button
    • LFO1 LR Phase slider does not behave as described in the user manual: phase of Pi is at slider position of around 75%, not at 50%
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Just for my edification, how does one know where the phase of Pi is? These kinds of posts always inspire me to want to know more.

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Pi is the point, where the LFOs of both channels are quite opposite. For instance if you want to hard pan L/R channels.

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Ah, of course, it’s the angle in radians.

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The AT to VCF slider does not work on my unit either. Another issue is the polyphony-note stealing issue. When switching between binaural and regular mode on occasion the Super Gemini will steal notes when playing only 6-8 in binauaral and 14-18 in regular mode. Seems to happen after switching binauaral to regular mode on layered or split patches.

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For the DDS2 tuning, this is an appropriate feature to control the beating without the use of a second fine tune knob. This is ok with me.
Possibly they reused this exponential curve function to the phase knob, but this does not make any sense, as you said. Phase control shall be linear.
UDO is a small company, I guess they are overloaded with other topics, working for the monthly income always has priority one.

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Any idea when these bugs will be addressed? The unadjustable velocity curve and vcf slider not working are particularly troublesome. This won’t be replacing my nord in a live setting any time soon.

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From a DAW user’s perspective, you are right @Arnaude; I personally bought this synth just for the possibilities in live editing with real knobs. Interesting to see that someone is using beating with other intervals.
I think, the idea of extra fine-tuning functionality with the use of the Shift button is a clever idea. However, having only one knob, the current implementation is still the simplest user interaction for more than 90% of the use cases.