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dutchound ·
i shelved this synth 8 months ago (sorry video only! there will be a free version)... there are about 20 controls to modulate 32 OSCs and Filters and all their parameters by merging them in an easy to control way, with focus on analogue timbres, FM and multi layered detune pads etc.
I totally gave up on this, i was struggling with LFOs and ARP concepts, i didnt know if the result file would be buggy with polyphonic midi, even though the engine is sound and it uses about 10-20 percent CPU for 6-osc polyphonic tones... i really wanted to make a little commercial synth but i am all deflated!!! i just picked it up yesterday and had even forgotten where all the faders were.
so here is a video, skip around/fastrack to 5 or 6 places in the video file to hear different pads.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmaida ... n_creation
thanks!
trogluddite ·
That seems to have a lot of potential - you got some really great 'dirty' tones in the video (BTW - good that you showed the interaction with the GUI in the video, it shows off your 'meta-controls' idea really well).
If you haven't the time or energy to continue with it, maybe you could make a new thread in the 'Projects' forum, and see if anyone fancies collaborating - it's very different from the usual 2/3 osc subtractive synths we often see, so it would be a shame not to try and take the concept further.
dutchound ·
trogluddite wrote: it's very different from the usual 2/3 osc subtractive synths we often see, so it would be a shame not to try and take the concept further.
Thanks for saying that! hopefully placing it here will help me see it from a different vantage point.I gave up when trying to make a SuperLFO mod the frequency of another SuperLFO and to put 10-20 LFO styles onto one metacontrol... also i couldnt figure out how to save presets, so i would read about how to do it on the forum and fail, and every step took me hours so i got depressed about doing more steps 😊
conceptually i know exactly how to program it... lots of LFO shapes, a drawable table modulator, an arpeggiator...
Also a meta-control that mixes a dozen physical instrument modulations for playing/jamming onto a single fader such as vibrato, portamento, attack expressions, filter sweeps, all onto one fader so you can create different hundreds of different combinations of physical playable instrument onto a single selected pad. that was the plan. but doing it on SM is very fiddly i have trouble concentrating and physically doing it 😕
attic ·
Don't give up. It has a unique sound that has much potential. I hear you on the loosing concentration thing but I think it's a good project that you will be proud if you hold on to your sanity and work your way through it. 😉 I have been here for maybe a year and half and still just working out many of the simple things. Thomas Edison had, I think a thousand try's on the light bulb before success. Good things come to those that are so hardheaded they wont give up.
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