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hawkfeather ·
Ok, I'm new to the forum and to synthmaker... I have an idea for a project that may seem silly to some of you but if anyone is interested in helping me out it would be greatly appreciated. I want to build an EVP Voice Ananlyser Unit. I am a graphic designer and web dev but I am still teaching myself SynthMaker and figured if I had someone to guide me though this it would help me learn faster. I will design the GUI background or faceplate for the unit and I have the technical specifications wishlist in order. I also know what functions I want incorporated. If anyone is interested, I will list the specs and then post the preview image. I'm not sure if these projects are allowed for donation ware or what but whatever profit is made if any will be split with the participants of the project. Thanks... Keith
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cyto ·
Hi hawkfeather and welcome to the forum 🙂
I'm interested in what direction you'd like to take with this project. I have done a little research in the past on EVP and still maintain a mild interest in it. Though I'll admit, I approach it from a more skeptical viewpoint 😉
If you're thinking of doing a more "traditional" stand-alone analyser, I'm not sure SM is the right platform to do so. This is due to SM's lack of disk streaming capabilities. I would imagine that you'd be interested in analysing somewhat long field recordings. In which case, you would need to load the recording all at once into memory to do the analysis. Anything over a minute or so will really start to bog down the computer. If, however, you want to make a "plugin" (that contains all of the analysis tools in one interface) to be run in a wave editor, then I think it may be doable.
So, what "features" would you like to include?
-cyto
hawkfeather ·
Actually over the last couple of days I was thinking that a VST plug would be much better anyways. I use Reaper and sometimes Audacity to do my EVP work but I end up using like six diff plugins and I just thought it would be neat to combine the features I need into one GUI. I think that a pre amp or Gain in the front De-ess, De-hum, General Noise reduction, 3 Band freq adjustable EQ with compression unit on each band, Stereo Centering unit and a strong amp or attenuation unit following it all up all would be good. Maybe use the parametric EQ mod on each of the three bands to further enhance the range of adjustments. Any ideas? LOL I have used every combination of most of these plugs and have had awesome results. Most of the tools are already available on this forum I have noticed. I work on a Mac but I run XP on VMWare so I can use the plug we come up with on that. I wish SynthMaker was Mac compatible but I know these guys are all Windows folks so I will just have to make due!!! LOL Thanks for the kind reply. I will get on the GUI soon. Want something unique and original, not to ghostly but maybe a little dramatic looking!!!
my email is [email removed] if you care to ever comm that way.
hawkfeather ·
Oh yeah and maybe a "de-breath" function LOL
infuzion ·
I stopped development of a multi-band, multi-stage dynamics processor that could do what you want. Stopped due to the fact that bootlegging ruins the odds of a small developer to make any money at a 32bit Windows-only VST IMHO. I may restart it if someone can look at it & thinks it is a good idea, & I can $4000USD or so from Kickstarter/indiegogo. I do need consulting if I can get enough buyers or charge enough to make it worth my while. Stay tuned!
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