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My first sort of mess around synth - Additive synthesis

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Acolmiztli ·

Well this was inspired by a tutorial in the Max/MSP documentation. I wanted to take the method from it and apply it to Synth Maker. Overall it worked well.

The schematic is very messy, GUI elements are all over the place and the synth is illogically split. This is due to this schematic being the very first one I've ever done, so don't be too critical!

Hope you can learn something. I've had to upload it at Audioshots:

http://audioshots.com/auditorium/viewto ... 1026#11026

Acolmiztli ·

Oh yeah, any tips on how to organise things in a more coherent manner would be appreciated! 😉

jorge ·

Acolmiztli wrote: Oh yeah, any tips on how to organise things in a more coherent manner would be appreciated! 😉

🙂 good, I'll post a few then. Very good first schematic by the way, and you were quite quick creating it. I think you will be pleased to find out about a few features that I'll show you in my following replies in this thread. Most of them are explained in the documentation at: [old link]

jorge ·

Instead of this:

you can do the following with the same result:

poly links get automatically Added when connected to the same input connector.

jorge ·

Instead of this:

you can do the following with the same result:

and split the links inside the module although even there you can avoid having so many links by using the same technique

jorge ·

I think you're using the following Envelope Alignment module to position stuff in the front panel:

There is a much easier way of doing that, just go to the front panel and unlock it:

then just move the different elements around to wherever you want them to be:

when you're finished, dont forget to lock the front panel again

Acolmiztli ·

jorge wrote: dont forget to lock the front panel again

LMAO!! I can't believe I missed that!!! hahaha!

Thanks Jorge 🙂

jorge ·

There's many other user interface features that you might not be aware of, most of them are described in the documentation. There's many keyboard shortcuts and often there's many ways of doing the same thing.

If you have any further questions I'll be happy to help. Also if you have any other schematics that you'd like me to have a look, it would be the quickest way for you to learn as I could tell you ways of improving them.

If at any stage you get stuck or frustrated because of some feature missing or some awckward non-logical way in which SM works, please let us know too as it will help us improve it.

Tom7777 ·

Thanks 🙂

Acolmiztli ·

no problem

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