SynthMakerelectrogear ·
I thought I'd just better let you all know, even though probably 99% of members are guys (because lets face it, only guys can be geeky enough to actually enjoy this stuff) I absolutely love you all!
Peace dudes,
Mike
Group Hug
From the original SynthMaker forum (2004–2014), with its members’ names and dates.
Andrew J ·
I love it when you go on a binge Mike 😀
oddson ·
hyou gysh har da besht buch a gysh ina werld - hck 😝
ps... 99% is likely low.
electrogear ·
Huh...? I thought somebody had hijacked my account there for a moment. Jeez I type so well when I'm drunk, and I'm so truthful too 😉 ! What can I say, I'm just a really nice guy....
nix ·
teehee
electrogear ·
The other worrying thing is that I had probably less than 5 hours sleep (I only worked this out just now by looking at the time between my posts). I thought I'd arrived home sometime after 1am, but I didn't realise it was that late. Also, yesterday I had a Romanian taxi driver called Gabriel ringing me up asking me when I would like to go for the drink we arranged on my taxi ride home, and he said thanks for the pizza & £10 tip.... wtf???
Anyway, I'm in the process of moving in with my girlfriend, and I don't think she would allow this sort of behaviour anymore, so this may be the last drunk Mike thread hopefully...
infuzion ·
<group hug>
electrogear wrote: Anyway, I'm in the process of moving in with my girlfriend, and I don't think she would allow this sort of behaviour anymore, so this may be the last drunk Mike thread hopefully...
Good thing she beat it to hating-Mike's-drinking before your liver did! 😉
electrogear ·
infuzion wrote: Good thing she beat it to hating-Mike's-drinking before your liver did! 😉
I've heard there's plenty going spare in Colorado with people selling spare limbs and organs (6th fingers etc) so I'm not too worried. In fact, I'll get one now just in case 😉
Acrobat ·
I gave up smoking one month ago, I feel really fine but nothing special... cheers, Andrea
electrogear ·
Isn't it time for anopther group hug?? I'm happily moved in with my girlfriend. She has to be in bed early because she starts at 8 tomorrow. I'm not at uni tomorrow so I get to go out.... so much for being 'tamed'....
Andrew J ·
Let us know how she feels after you get back tomorrow morning 😈
electrogear ·
Ahhh she was fine 🙂 I crept into bed when she wasn't looking.... I was lying there thinking "yes I'm so bloody clever!" then she says "did you lock the door?"...... Ooops......
electrogear ·
I still totally love everyone! I handed my second to last assignment in today! I made something I've been trying to make with Synthmaker for years, using a different program (which had accurate timers). Don't mean to slag SM off or anything, it's a great program. Has lots of advantages over other software, but some disadvantages too. Anyway, just thought I'd remind you all that you're all loved by electrogear!!!
Do you realise how long it took me to write that message without spelling mistakes... god I'm drunksh.
love love
XXX
philter5 ·
😀 ..hehe you´re really funny... but remember don´t drink and drive electrogear! btw: can you tell me which different program you´re talking about? sounds interesting... but i really won´t miss SM anyway 😉 i love it
infuzion ·
philter5 wrote: btw: can you tell me which different program you´re talking about? sounds interesting...
I am betting on Max/DSP... I'm thinking of going there, or learning C++.
electrogear ·
Yeah it was Max/MSP. I made a Drum Sampler, sounds pretty cool. A really simple project in Max actually - I probably put in the region of 30 hours into it, where I must've spent double hat amount of time trying to get it to work in SM. I found it really easy to pick up, it's quite similar to SM in some ways. Probably not as user-friendly and the GUI isn't particularly intuitive, but as soon as you get used to what does what you can work pretty quickly. It does work in some mysterious ways though - sometimes I find myself thinking "If only this bit worked like Synthmaker", but equally sometimes I come across something which makes a lot of sense and wonder why SM doesn't do that. I think the designers of the two programs could learn a lot from each other. I bet if they paired up we'd have some superb software.
Haven't tried Max/MSP 5 yet, still working with 4.6 but I'll be moving to the new one after Christmas so I'll let you know how it goes. Don't want to scare any potential customers away from Synthmaker though, it is a great little program, and well worth the money. You've got to remember this costs a lot less than most other development tools. I think Max/MSP costs about £600!
kirkagur ·
electrogear wrote: Yeah it was Max/MSP. I made a Drum Sampler, sounds pretty cool. A really simple project in Max actually - I probably put in the region of 30 hours into it, where I must've spent double hat amount of time trying to get it to work in SM. I found it really easy to pick up, it's quite similar to SM in some ways. Probably not as user-friendly and the GUI isn't particularly intuitive, but as soon as you get used to what does what you can work pretty quickly. It does work in some mysterious ways though - sometimes I find myself thinking "If only this bit worked like Synthmaker", but equally sometimes I come across something which makes a lot of sense and wonder why SM doesn't do that. I think the designers of the two programs could learn a lot from each other. I bet if they paired up we'd have some superb software.
Haven't tried Max/MSP 5 yet, still working with 4.6 but I'll be moving to the new one after Christmas so I'll let you know how it goes. Don't want to scare any potential customers away from Synthmaker though, it is a great little program, and well worth the money. You've got to remember this costs a lot less than most other development tools. I think Max/MSP costs about £600!
I really think that if you will have the same amount of "Big Modules" that you have in Max 5/4.6 in Synth Maker, you will never leave It .
Am I Wrong???
infuzion ·
electrogear wrote: Yeah it was Max/MSP. I made a Drum Sampler, sounds pretty cool. A really simple project in Max actually - I probably put in the region of 30 hours into it, where I must've spent double hat amount of time trying to get it to work in SM. I found it really easy to pick up, it's quite similar to SM in some ways.
I'm thinking your SM experience helped shortened your development time in Max.
Max5 seems to be much easier to use than 4, so I think you'll like it even more. Max5 does NOT have VST exporting yet.
kirkagur wrote: I really think that if you will have the same amount of "Big Modules" that you have in Max 5/4.6 in Synth Maker, you will never leave It . Am I Wrong???
Unfortunately, you are wrong I believe. What SM is missing that Max/DSP has: 1) OSX/Mac support 2) event-timing (mostly for sequencers) 3) video control & editing 4) SDK (maybe?) 5) much larger user base, thus you'll never have as many SM modules as you do in Max/DSP 6) longer history, more stable, fewer bugs...
Sure, Max cost much more.
electrogear ·
Yes, Max has a huge user base and a dedicated object database that users can upload objects to and write a description for it. This is something SM could do with in my opinion. I know there's the wiki, but I don't think it's obvious enough for new users - it's not like you can visit the site and instantly know where to get new modules. The event timing seems a lot better - there are lots of pluses.
The main thing is that I don't find myself thinking "where is this crackle coming from?" or, "why is my CPU creeping up?" You can just connect things together in Max and it will do what it says on the tin - so far I have had no need for adding denormal removers, Midi threading workarounds, deZippers, etc.
CPU so far doesn't seem to be a problem in Max. I'm getting 3% CPU with my sampler, and that was without even trying to minimize. In SM it was over 30% after reduction attempts!
bootsy ·
A big christmas group hug to all of you from Frankfurt, Germany. Thanks for all the help and support here!
peace, bootsy
NekroDisko ·
Happy new President to all of you! Oh, sorry, I also meant "year" and so on... I love all of you too...
electrogear ·
I'm going out.... need a break from exam revision.
I'll try my best not to post when I get back but I can't promise anything....
electrogear ·
Just passing on some love, and could do with some back - need a morale boost as the work is getting on top of me! University work plus 3 other big projects outside of uni! 😕
Love love
🙂
electrogear
nix ·
😍 😍 😍
Hang in there man. What you're putting out may very well come back to you!
NekroDisko ·
I usually don´t hug guys, but a deep-throat french kiss has never hurt anyone... 😝
oddson ·
'gear! are you drinking again?... you know it makes you maudlin.
We all love you... even if you are very needy. 😉
electrogear ·
Feeling it sister 🙂 Haven't been on it for a while odds, in fact I may well be stuck to my chair - haven't really left it since some time in April 😀
All my work is done 'til September, now I just need to find some work that pays real good then I'm back at uni in September. In the meantime I'm back working with SM hardcore styleeee so watch this space!!! Going to try and port across my new sequencer from Max to SM so I might need some help! There will surely be something in it for those who want to get involved.
Cheers,
Mike
P.S. No deep throating please Nekro, there's been too much of that going on around here lately 😉
Acrobat ·
Hi Mike, hi people I'M BACK my hand was badly injured for tendinis problems, but its quite ok now and I think I can stay at the mouse for 2-3 hours a day ATM. Been OFF for a LOT of time, something like 8 months, hope you geeks still remember me, for those who love or hate me, well it's the same, cheers! 😀
Andrea "Acrobat" Capanna
Andrew J ·
Welcome back Andrea! I thought you'd gone very quiet for a while - I hope the hand continues to improve 🙂
bootsy ·
Another group hug to all who provide this incredible analyzer gadgets here - wrote about it my blog, they were a lifesaver during the dev of my new comp, thanks, mates!
infuzion ·
Acrobat wrote: I'M BACK my hand was badly injured for tendinis problems...
Glad your back! Have you tried a track ball or tablet instead of using a mouse? My track balls have served me well!
philter5 ·
hey andrea, nice to see you here back again! greetings and i hope you and your hand are on the way up an up... (i hope i translated it right hehe)...
phil
Acrobat ·
philter5 wrote: hey andrea, nice to see you here back again! greetings and i hope you and your hand are on the way up an up... (i hope i translated it right hehe)...
phil
hi thanks phil it's quite ok now! 😉
Acrobat ·
I'm just telling: "Hey! I'm back in Rome from a 5 days travel through Germany, really nice country!" 😀
sunsynth ·
Glad u liked it here in good old germany 🙂
Acrobat ·
sunsynth wrote: Glad u liked it here in good old germany 🙂
I've already been to Berlin some time ago, now I visited the southern part, been thru switzerland to ULM then the Schwartzwald, some small villages inside the forest, then Triberg, then Freiburg for 2 days and then back... 1600 kms by car! 😀
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