SynthMaker

Oscilators and Midi triggering

Archive · 2005 4 old posts

From the original SynthMaker forum (2004–2014), with its members’ names and dates.

lalo ·

Hi guys! this is a mixture of a question and a ...request 🙂

How the midi trigger (note on / note off) works with the oscillator... i mean does it trigger the osc as 'free run' or when the trigger is received the osc starts at 0 phase?

Having a lot of experience with 'hardware' synthesizers i'd like to have a kind of trigger signal comin' out the midi module so i'd can choose if i want an oscillator to be 'triggered' by midi via a 'sync' or 'gate' inlet...or if i'd want the midi note-on just trigger the adsr through that the osc free running signals will pass... plus for coherence...the (note on/off signals control the amplitude area of the synth and the midi note number the pitch..so it would be nice to have them separate from the midi module...so in my 'ideal' midi module would have 'trigger' 'pitch' 'pitchbend' 'aftertouch' 'pitchbend' 'velocity' outputs.... or maybe the midi module can give as an output a kind of string i.e. Note On 45 , 64 (but maybe this is too much maxmsp-ish 🙂 ) where the first number is note number and the second velocity.... then a kind of string filter can distribute signals where wanted...

does this mess make any sense? 😀

thanx lalo

lalo ·

i'd add a trigger/gate inlet to the ADSR too 🙂 lalo

jorge ·

lalo, I agree with you

The old version of SM had a gate output on the midiToPoly component, that is planned for the new version too. At the moment the ADSR starts when a new note starts playing. The plan it to have an ADSR with a gate input. The gate signal will use a new PolyBool type connector and new And, Or, Xor etc primitives are already planned to operate on PolyBool data.

It will also be possible to use the PolyBool data to hard-sync oscillators.

lalo ·

great 🙂 thanx jorge lalo

Wrote something here? To have a post removed or your name hidden, write to [email protected].

Before your first post

A few rules keep this a friendly place. You agree to them once.

Shown next to what you post, here and in the app. It doesn’t have to be your real name: 3–24 lower-case letters, digits or _ (capitals become lower case, spaces become _).

    Then your post goes up straight away.

    Delete this reply?

    Open it in SynthMaker?

    It goes on the track you’re editing there, in place of that track’s sound, and into My sounds. Your other tracks stay as they are.

    Want to keep that track’s sound? Start a new song in SynthMaker first (Song › New song), then open this.

    Report this reply?

    Only the developer reads reports. The person isn’t told who reported them.

    What’s wrong with it?

    Block this person?

    You won’t see their posts and replies here any more. They aren’t told, and you can unblock them at any time.

    People you’ve blocked

    Their posts and replies are hidden from you. Unblock someone to see them again.

    The community rules

    A few rules keep this a friendly place. Everyone agrees to them once, before their first post.