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rachMiel ·
well, after lengthy deliberation, i've finally decided to learn how to use synthmaker to create windows plugins. i'm also "apprenticed" to a c++ slavedriver who i'm hoping will whip me into cross-platform shape. ;-) it's the double-prong approach to plugin creationism. :-)
just wanted to introduce myself to this distinguished crowd: i'm rachMiel, aka rick, aka "the guy who builds all those strange reaktor monstrums."
and to ask for advice/tips/tricks to help this newbie ascend to synthmaker fluency.
thanks!
Shifrin ·
Hey Rick 🙂
Shif.
rachMiel ·
shifrin. :-)
hey i've been in newcastle ... ;-)
skOre ·
welcome to the forums 🙂
rachMiel ·
thanks skOre. :-)
just read a long thread about audiooak in the kvr forum. how's it going?
dreamkeeper ·
Hey Rick 🙂 I'm glad you decided this way!
Well, you know I'm a SM noob myself - anyway, here goes:
The best advice I can think of is, take your time to understand Synthmaker's paradigm. Imho it's important to understand that SM goes seamlessly from high-level modules to the absolute lowest stuff you can think of. Once you get it, everything is logical in SM.
Some things you should keep an eye on:
Wireless links - while they do help prevent clutter, they tend to make the schematics difficult to understand. There are often connections, that aren't obvious at first sight.
Busses - apparently not often used in the examples I've seen so far, but a powerful feature to prevent clutter. Same advice of caution as for wireless links though.
GUI - there's no sharp line between GUI and DSP programming in SM. Interfaces can be programmed using the same basic primitives (plus some specialised ones of course).
Use data type components for debugging often. For streams there are special poly/mono readouts in the "Control" toolbox.
If you need a special module that cannot be done with primitives, most likely someone has already made it with the code/assembler primitive.
Hope these are not too obvious to you - in this case simply ignore 😀
Looking forward to your creations,
werner
rachMiel ·
dream: thanks!
at this point nothing is too obvious to me. ;-)
Tom7777 ·
Welcome 🙂
rachMiel ·
thanks tom. :-)
Tom7777 ·
Maybe we can work on a project or something at some point, i make a lot of abstract/strange sound devices myself 😀 Also just wondering do you write for CM magazine also? Theres a section called Rachmiel's off the dial which i like reading 😀
rachMiel ·
collaboration sounds cool. :-)
yes: i'm *that* rachMiel. ;-)
Tom7777 ·
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