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piranha XT ·
The interface is extremely nice! It is very comfortable & very intuitive!
I have never tried Synth|Maker till now, but I very quickly figured out how to put things together. The component filter is soooo user friendly!!! Finding what I need is much easier than I would have ever imagined.
I like the drag-n-drop feature along with the auto-connect functionality!
My only gripe at the moment...
I was looking through the tutorials for earlier versions (0.8...) & it appears that some of the components are no longer available (i.e. audio input). I realize that this is an early beta & that the components were kept to a minimum. However, audio ins & MIDI outs are pretty basic features I would think. I do look forward to seeing them!
In a nutshell, S|M looks fabulous & I will certainly follow S|M's progress! It feels much more comfortable than SE & is better looking to boot!
When S|M reaches maturity, what price range are you shooting for?
malc ·
Hi piranha XT,
Thanks very much for your comments. We set out to make SynthMaker as fun and easy to use as possible so it's great to hear that your first experience has been a good one.
As you've seen, SynthMaker has been around for some time and in the past there have been many more components in the toolbox. However, we realised back in July that the codebase as it stood was not capable of being pushed further without a major overhaul.
So we decided to start from scratch and, using the knowledge we had accumulated, build a completely new framework and sound engine. In doing so we had to keep the toolbox small as changes to the framework often impact on the components and we couldn't handle the overhead of updating 500 components every time we wanted to make a change.
I agree with you, audio ins and MIDI outs are very basic features. There are probably many more for which you could say the same. The problem was we had to pick a subset of these to start with and we decided to go for the minimum needed to make an exportable VSTi.
Fear not though. The framework is stabilising so more components will come soon including the ones you've mentioned.
You're not the first to ask about price. The truth is that it will depend a great deal on what's in the 1.0 release. It'll be affordable though - certainly not Reaktor level.
Thanks again.
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