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jcsquire ·
Hi everyone,
Just bought SM after lurking in the newsgroups for a week...I'm amazed at both the developer's extremely fast responses and the almost rabid following of some of you; glad to join the group 🙂
So, hopefully simple question. I have no trouble getting premade synths to work, but when it comes to designing my own very basic one (following the basic tutorial) I get resounding silence. It's just midi in - midi2poly - sawtooth - poly2mono - ds out. Nothing. After looking into some of the great ones you and the devs made, I added a Hz-to-0-1 converter between the midi2poly and sawtooth oscillator, and now it works.
Am I missing or confusing something basic, or did the tutorial drop this important module? I think I'm doing something wrong because it doesn't make sense to me that the devs would require normalization before every oscillator, or what does a "1" correspond to...the Nyquist freq?
I'd be grateful for any assistance...I'd ask the devs but I know we'd all rather they keep focused on 1.0!
- Jim
oddson ·
There are two midi-to-poly 'things'. One is a module and the other is a primitive.
The module is intended for end users and works with the OSC module with the type selector and is in Hz.
The midi2poly and OSC primitives work with the 0-1 scale (yes 1=Nyquist).
See this post and then look back at the rest of that thread.
Oh yeah... and welcome to the forum! 🙂
sambean ·
Hi jcsquire,
Welcome to the forum, hope I can help clear things up.. Not too long ago there was a feature implemented in SM that allowed you to select whether you worked in hertz or normalized frequency (0-1 -> 0-nyquist I think). This however was implemented after the tutorial and so there is no mention of it there, before only normalised 0-1 frequency was used.
The option to switch between hz/norm can be found on the properties of the midi to poly high level module.. (small (p) bottom right of module)..
Cheers
Sam
jcsquire ·
Thanks oddson and sambeam: you answered both my question and the one I should have asked.
Once again, I'm amazed at the responsiveness of this community, and look forward to returning the favor once I learn enough to answer the next newbie's question.
- Jim
skOre ·
Oh, hi an welcome! Always nice to see new users 🙂
Tom7777 ·
Welcome jcsquire 🙂
Shifrin ·
Tom7777 wrote: Welcome jcsquire 🙂
Yep! 😀
Shif.
skOre ·
And don't think we're humble or anything, we're just post-hungry forum-berzerks.
malc ·
Hi Jim,
I still need to update the tutorial - well spotted! Sorry for the confusion.
Malc.
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