From the original SynthMaker forum (2004–2014), with its members’ names and dates.
CoreStyler ·
Hi all.
I want to present my new community website entirely dedicated to synthmaker.
I decided to build a website for the primary thing that what synthmaker website lacks is a directory where will be easy to search for modules, examples, DSP... The example forum is hard to read, since is forum nature.
Now i present synthmakers.net to you all, and hope people here will join. We need also moderators and people that want to add schematics, wiki docs etc.
Synthmakers.net Features.
Synthmakers downloads archive
Our archive is a good way for finding examples, modules and synthmaker resources.
Any member can upload is own modules and share it with the community!
Upload your schematics
Download other user schematics
Manage your schematics
Update your schematics versions
Be sure of what you uploaded
Add license agreements to your releases
Do not forget anymore what you uploaded
Synthmakers Wiki
Our Wiki is accessible to all registered members! anyone can write new contents and share his knowledge.
Write your own docs
Add attachement to your docs
Create tutorials
Add images, videos, audio, code
Create your docs using i WYSIWYG editor
Display your portfolio on each doc
Projects
Synthmaker Projects software for Creating and Working on new collabs
The project software of synthmakers allow any user to start a new project! People can join the projects and work toghether for the same deadline.
Any member can start new projects
People can join projects
Assign task to team members
Manage, upload, fix and update project files
Discuss features, task, bugs, improvements directly
Add DSP codes and edit, fix, improve them with team members
Create projects teams
Add milestones, time track, events and deadlines
Easy managment of projects
Do not lose progress by streaming activity
Why synthmakers
Why not having simple to search, add, update and explore schematics in an easy way?
Hope all people of synthmaker will join and submit their schematics, tutorials or docs.
Hope that this project will make synthmaker life easier.
And finally hope that it will promote synthmaker as a software and spread voice, make outsim rich and give us more features in the future! 😀
URL
http://www.synthmakers.net
please mods.. sticky this thread.
trogluddite ·
Hi there.
That looks like a neat piece of work - much as I love this forum, you have really addressed some of the organisational problems when it comes to finding downloads etc. The WISIWYG wiki editor sounds like a good idea too - the interface for the Wiki here is just not user friendly, and I guess that puts a lot of people off adding to it (me included!)
However, much as I would like to contribute, I am having a lot of trouble with your registration process - it keeps telling me that the "tell us about yourself" box entry is invalid - I have tried short entries and long ones, and it seems to be saying that I have to enter at least 300 characters, but no more than 300 characters! Composing something that is exactly 300 characters is kind of tricky, so hopefully you'll be able to fix that easily - and I shall then meet you there!
CoreStyler ·
😠 ooops.
Im really familiar with the software in use, that i done a mistake.
I corrected the field. 😉
I don't wan't that synthmakers.net give less access here or split the community. Unfortunately, synthmaker official forum does not have RSS or any kind of feed that i can display in real time at synthmakers.
The best things for me are the project software. If the community here will use it, will really improve the collabs.. (and maybe adding a topic on project foum here with links and updates)...
And the best one is the download area. Here is too confusing. And is cool, since synthmaker nature, to have a repository.
aliasant ·
I love the idea and effort. Hope i can contribute with something.
I tried to convince Malc at Outsim to start something like this a couple of years back.
This is the closest to that idea I have seen and I really hope others contribute to this.
If it just grows a little tiny bit it might catch on and draw others to it.
Keep on doing good 🙂
tester ·
Slow/unstable server/loading, difficult/uncomfortable to read (color theme), confusing/unuseful navigational gadgets. It isn't a kind of website that attracts programming or learning; more art and presentation related (like "downloads repository") I would say. It's not criticism, rather a practical observation.
Dell ·
Corestylers,
You can add this link http://ifoundasound.com/index.php?page_id=8 to your list of VST hosts. I've used it for nearly two years and it works well with Synthmaker effects. Credit is given to Tor for bringing it to my attention.
Good luck on your project!
CoreStyler ·
aliasant wrote: I love the idea and effort. Hope i can contribute with something.
I tried to convince Malc at Outsim to start something like this a couple of years back.
This is the closest to that idea I have seen and I really hope others contribute to this.
If it just grows a little tiny bit it might catch on and draw others to it.
Keep on doing good 🙂
Tanks really much hope this website will help!
tester wrote: Slow/unstable server/loading, difficult/uncomfortable to read (color theme), confusing/unuseful navigational gadgets. It isn't a kind of website that attracts programming or learning; more art and presentation related (like "downloads repository") I would say. It's not criticism, rather a practical observation.
Tanks. give me some so i can get started with many ideas. i will introuduce more contents really soon. How kind how navigation you don't think useful?
Also a white theme will be switchable.
Dell wrote: Corestylers,
You can add this link http://ifoundasound.com/index.php?page_id=8 to your list of VST hosts. I've used it for nearly two years and it works well with Synthmaker effects. Credit is given to Tor for bringing it to my attention.
Good luck on your project!
Tanks dell i added it!
If many people here does not have time for posting their old schematics, present in example forum, just say to me or reply the message and i will add them 4 you.. and use the author data from here or your website. 😉
So i can expand the repo. 😀
tester ·
Regarding gui - menu is confusing (this flowing thing plus slow expand), plus - may introduce some slowdowns/instabilities in certain situations. This red and black theme is not readable on my laptop (various LCD screen display differently); maybe it's also a matter of fonts which are used. On the other hand - my preference is towards themes like this forum. It is very common type. I'm not trying to register right now, because from here - server is very slow or hangs (no problems with other websites).
aliasant ·
I have no problems with the gui but my prefs are more towards darker themes.
Having an option to switch to a lighter UI, as you promised, should be enough.
Not saying that it cant be improved of course. Everything can be, almost.
Server being very slow is worse. Especialy if people start actually using it 🙂
I havnt regged either since Im going away in a few days and wont have much time in the near future.
Just keep improving and nagg on us as often as you like 😉
CoreStyler ·
The server is located on Netherlands. But hoster is godaddy, so maybe is slow because of this. i will try to improve. I added for now caching and gzip compression. The host is not so speed, but the uptime is really 100%. and i'm running different websites on it. 🙂
Addedd another template. This one has content background in white. And is less wide, so maybe is good for smartphones.
aliasant ·
The new skin is nice.
One thing that could use a change is the second row under the header.
Were the "Latest Downloads", "Last Updated Downloads" and so on is.
That section takes up a lot of space and is good on a front page but not when we try to go into the downloads section.
If I click on any link in that section Im expecting to se a new page with the information Im looking for.
Instead i still see the same huge section and have to scroll down to see the info.
I have a fairly big 1920*1600 screen and still I need to scroll down.
Maybe only have the Latest..blabla section on a front page?
Another thing.
Maybe the header with the logo is to big as well? It uses a lot of space. I know it looks good 🙂 but space is valuable right?
CoreStyler ·
yeah you rigth.
I removed the last.. top.. from download section and aslo the tree since ad the moments there are not subcats.
About the logo, is not the picture that is big into the ligth template, but is a css table calling an image. so i will see to resize it. 😀
aliasant ·
CoreStyler wrote: yeah you rigth.
I removed the last.. top.. from download section and aslo the tree since ad the moments there are not subcats.
About the logo, is not the picture that is big into the ligth template, but is a css table calling an image. so i will see to resize it. 😀
Yes. You should be able to find the CSS part quickly.
Perhaps you need to rezise or crop the logo.png as well?
CoreStyler ·
aliasant wrote:
CoreStyler wrote: yeah you rigth.
I removed the last.. top.. from download section and aslo the tree since ad the moments there are not subcats.
About the logo, is not the picture that is big into the ligth template, but is a css table calling an image. so i will see to resize it. 😀
Yes. You should be able to find the CSS part quickly.
Perhaps you need to rezise or crop the logo.png as well?
Yes. i should look at logo dimension but shold be small. Logo has been make by Loopey.
The fact is that the template streamline has this big header. 😀
tektoog ·
hey,
In this sentence: "Synthmakers wiki is created by all members, anyone has the rigth to share is knowledge"
I guess "is knowledge" should be replaced by "his knowledge"...
loopeytunes ·
Hey Core, I've noticed quite a few spelling mistakes also on the site. I can PM you the pages that they're on?
Site suggestions:
1 - May'be tone down the red on the words to a paler one like on the logo.
2 - Try to make the outer glow on the words a little subtler (this will make it easier for reading).
3 - May'be the logo (header) could be squeezed more together like the image below?
Just a few suggestions here 😉
Loopey
loopeytunes ·
tektoog wrote: hey,
In this sentence: "Synthmakers wiki is created by all members, anyone has the rigth to share is knowledge"
I guess "is knowledge" should be replaced by "his knowledge"...
or may'be "their knowledge" ?? 😉
tektoog ·
I think anyone is single so it shoud be his I think!?
But I just asked my british girlfriend and she says both can be said.... damn english... 😉
loopeytunes ·
tektoog wrote: I think anyone is single so it shoud be his I think!?
But I just asked my british girlfriend and she says both can be said.... damn english... 😉
"His" will be referring to him and "their" will be referring to either him or her 😉
trogluddite ·
tektoog wrote: both can be said.... damn english
He he, our language is such a "mutant" of Scandinavian, German, French, Latin, Celtic, even languages from India - it is no wonder even the natives find it confusing!
It is a wonder that any of us here are literate, when we have a language with at least ten different ways to speak the four-letter syllable "ough" - though it does have the advantage of not requiring us to remember the gender of inanimate objects (the idea that a chair might be male or female is considered rather bizarre and amusing when we study other languages at school).
Anyhow, as hinted before, "their" is usually used with "anyone", because if you exclude females, it includes only 50% of the people, so is no longer "anyone" (and of course, "i" always precedes "e", except for those strange words like "their" when it doesn't!!)
(small OT aside Re; his/her: In the "developed, emancipated West" the proportion of female IT trainees peaked in the early 1980's and has been dropping ever since (now <10%) - in the "developing Far East" the proportion is near parity. Ironically, an English woman, Ada Lovelace is considered by many to have written the first ever computer program, and had the Ada computer language named after her.)
CoreStyler ·
Sorry for my english mistakes. i will correct them, just say me where you find.
I writed all in few hours without spell checking or any other tool, and i'm not english! 😉
I will make your suggestions loopey. ; )
loopeytunes ·
Don't apologize for your english 🙂
The logo looks like it's been stretched?
Loopey
CoreStyler ·
I changed a color of the forum and also the pictures of cats. I will change the default brith red later when i disable cache.
I've also added 2 docs about file submitting and wiki also.
http://synthmakers.net/wiki/category/15 ... s-wiki-faq
Hope this helps! 😉
trogluddite ·
CoreStyler wrote: I've also added 2 docs about file submitting and wiki also
Cheers - very useful - you now have your first couple of Trog uploads!
Still trouble with the Wiki - I get the message "Create Record not Permitted".
CoreStyler ·
trogluddite wrote:
CoreStyler wrote: I've also added 2 docs about file submitting and wiki also
Cheers - very useful - you now have your first couple of Trog uploads!
Still trouble with the Wiki - I get the message "Create Record not Permitted".
Tanks. i fixed this issue with permissions.. Is a new thing of joomla 2.5 (new); i forgotten 😉
philter5 ·
hey corestyler,
great project, thumbs up !!
i will sign up asap when i am back at home from work....
if you still need a german mod pm me !
RunBeerRun2 ·
I signed up and am waiting approval. Thumbs up!
philter5 ·
....tried to sign up.
there is a bug in the registration.
the security code doesn´t get checked when you enter it and press next.
no matter if you enter a false code or the right - it always goes to the next step when you enter.
but when you have completed all the steps and you want to finish your registration, THEN
it tells you "wrong security code" and i have to start from zero again if you have entered a wrong code....
no big deal, just wanted to let you know 🙂 ....
CoreStyler ·
philter5 wrote: ....tried to sign up.
there is a bug in the registration.
the security code doesn´t get checked when you enter it and press next.
no matter if you enter a false code or the right - it always goes to the next step when you enter.
but when you have completed all the steps and you want to finish your registration, THEN
it tells you "wrong security code" and i have to start from zero again if you have entered a wrong code....
no big deal, just wanted to let you know 🙂 ....
i'll change it with recaptcha. 😉 The problem may appear on your browser.
What's your browser software?
DigitalWhiteByte ·
Registration under way......
Full support to the idea of giving vent to the Italian language
Pieno supporto all'idea di dare sfogo alla lingua italiana 🙂
philter5 ·
CoreStyler wrote:
philter5 wrote: ....tried to sign up.
there is a bug in the registration.
the security code doesn´t get checked when you enter it and press next.
no matter if you enter a false code or the right - it always goes to the next step when you enter.
but when you have completed all the steps and you want to finish your registration, THEN
it tells you "wrong security code" and i have to start from zero again if you have entered a wrong code....
no big deal, just wanted to let you know 🙂 ....
i'll change it with recaptcha. 😉 The problem may appear on your browser.
What's your browser software?
the register-problem was on my pc at work, win7, opera.
and, as i said before, it´´s not a real BUG because it happends only when people like me enter the wrong code hehehehe....
i´lll re-sign-up from my personal computer in some minutes, i am on my way back home.
philter5 ·
but, anyways, FULL SUPPORT to your project . 😀
CoreStyler ·
philter5 wrote: but, anyways, FULL SUPPORT to your project . 😀
Tanks really much.
I've changed the captcha, and addedd recaptcha!
Cyforce ·
Just as suggestion, why not using wordpress for such ressource site for synthmaker?
Easier to handle, you just need normal webspace/domain(~5$ month), can choice a user-friendly design, easy to organise etc 😉
CoreStyler ·
Cyforce wrote: Just as suggestion, why not using wordpress for such ressource site for synthmaker?
Easier to handle, you just need normal webspace/domain(~5$ month), can choice a user-friendly design, easy to organise etc 😉
Im running jooma! and is 10 times better. 😉
Wordpress is for blogs (also if can be expanded). The templates i used are available for wordpress too.
But joomla! has more features, and i'm using it since years. Higly extandable and has forums, downloads systems etc.
And, has the best SEO ever made. 😉
http://www.siteground.com/best_cms_tools.htm
nix ·
hmm,
I tried 3 times to register,
and kept getting the message-
'Your request timed out. Please retry the request.'
after the last step.
The third time I entered my info as quickly as possible.
Thanks for the Core, I'll hang out there 8D
CoreStyler ·
nix wrote: hmm,
I tried 3 times to register,
and kept getting the message-
'Your request timed out. Please retry the request.'
after the last step.
The third time I entered my info as quickly as possible.
Thanks for the Core, I'll hang out there 8D
Sorry, i will call the hoster because suffer timeouts sometimes. 😉
nix ·
OK-
It worked.
I'll edit my profile once I can Core.
Cheers
DigitalWhiteByte ·
@CoreStyler
If you create a temporary section in the forum,
to communicate the various bugs or anomalies, we can give help.
What do you think?
For example, on some form, the writing appears white on white so it is not visible.
loopeytunes ·
I'm with DWB on this one, rather than us post here on the main SM forum it would be much easier to do it through the other site.
Loopey
Dell ·
I just registered. The process was not time consuming. I would imagine your internet connection would play a factor.
My screen name is the same as here.
Hopefully I should be able to participate by Monday. 🙂
CoreStyler ·
I created a forum category for support, and here we will put the topics regarding layouts. 😉
http://synthmakers.net/forum/20-synthma ... t-troubles
Yesterday nitgh i modded the forum template, the text color.. but is really diffuclt to make it higly readable since it is red.
😉
Instead, using the secondary template with white content layout, is more easy.
I don't know. Maybe is better to use the second.. i started a topic for voting about template style, to use one only.
http://synthmakers.net/forum/20-synthma ... e-style#31
tektoog ·
Time out for me 2...
CoreStyler ·
tektoog wrote: Time out for me 2...
We are talking about these problems here:
http://synthmakers.net/forum/20-synthma ... ons-thread
😀
jjs ·
ok registrated!
acg2010 ·
Very nice website, especially liked the tutorials.
Thanks CoreStyler.
RJHollins ·
Well ... I got through the 1st phase of Registering. Now waiting for approval.
First complaint ....
WHY must the 2 words to be typed be SO DIFFICULT to SEE 😠
I had an easier time getting into the 'Secret Service' 😈
Anyway ... the ole 'peeps' are not what they use to be ... actually,
were never really that great without the loan from the Hubble. 😉
CoreStyler ·
acg2010 wrote: Very nice website, especially liked the tutorials.
Thanks CoreStyler.
Tanks! i will improve and hope anyone will contribute to wiki and downloads area!
RJHollins wrote: Well ... I got through the 1st phase of Registering. Now waiting for approval.
First complaint ....
WHY must the 2 words to be typed be SO DIFFICULT to SEE 😠
I had an easier time getting into the 'Secret Service' 😈
Anyway ... the ole 'peeps' are not what they use to be ... actually,
were never really that great without the loan from the Hubble. 😉
The captcha code is actually used by the 70% of websites in the world. is Recaptcha, from google (the same in facebook).
Sometimes words are really uncomprensible though. 😉
Hope you'll like too synthmakers...
I do not understand the last part of your post, my english is too bad. 😉
CoreStyler ·
IMPORTANT
Since we had some great problems about synthmakers.net speed, i decided to move to another server!
Now Synthmakers has a non-overselled host where speed increased a lot, les than 0.20 seconds for opening a page. 😉
Hope synthmaker people here will continues to contribute to Synthmakers Community with OSM, tutorials and wiki docs.
Reply here if you are happy of that! 😍
Cheers,
TC
trogluddite ·
Hi.
Certainly seems much speedier - but I am getting very bad glitching (tried Firefox and Chrome).
Many graphical elements are not displaying correctly (some not at all). Sometimes they do refresh when I click around a lot, othertimes not (Firefox seems worse).
I'm posting here, because I tried to do it at SM.net - but nothing seemed to happen (apart from some graphics sometimes re-appearing). I got a couple of 'duplicate post ignored') messages when I retried, but my post did not seem to be there when I checked back.
I'll try again later in case it is just a bad connection.
CoreStyler ·
trogluddite wrote: Hi.
Certainly seems much speedier - but I am getting very bad glitching (tried Firefox and Chrome).
Many graphical elements are not displaying correctly (some not at all). Sometimes they do refresh when I click around a lot, othertimes not (Firefox seems worse).
I'm posting here, because I tried to do it at SM.net - but nothing seemed to happen (apart from some graphics sometimes re-appearing). I got a couple of 'duplicate post ignored') messages when I retried, but my post did not seem to be there when I checked back.
I'll try again later in case it is just a bad connection.
No the fact is that im working on the live site. Now is fixed. glitches appeared because i was using htaccess hotlink protection. (for preventing brandwidth theft).
😉
Im working on Synthmakers.net these days, so if anyone see something strange.. just wait. 😀
About your post, news sections is moderated. Only moderators can post directly, your post need to be approved from a moderator.
trogluddite ·
Aah, cool - thanks for the clarification. 🙂
I'll bob back on later for a look around; I'm looking forward to getting busy on there again. Your site design and structure etc. is great, but I had to stop because the browser time-outs were getting a bit too annoying.
CoreStyler ·
trogluddite wrote: Aah, cool - thanks for the clarification. 🙂
I'll bob back on later for a look around; I'm looking forward to getting busy on there again. Your site design and structure etc. is great, but I had to stop because the browser time-outs were getting a bit too annoying.
Yes. True. Boring.
ì 😠
Stupid american oversellers. 😈
New host is reallly good, and surprise.. is cheaper. (but with limited GB of disk and brandwidth).
I just waited for the expiration of my host of thecorestylerz.net to move.
Maybe i will change template, and use just one. Make easier to manage and improve aswell. And... new features and design of wiki is coming.
philter5 ·
trogluddite wrote: Your site design and structure etc. is great, but I had to stop because the browser time-outs were getting a bit too annoying.
same here, hope the problems are fixed now. see you there corestyler & trog (&hopefully more of you!) 😀
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