[LAU] mx44 softsynth - help!?

[james morris]

On 19/1/2010, "Mark Hadman" <markhadman at googlemail.com> wrote:

>I'm desperately trying to get to grips with the mx44 synth
>(http://hem.passagen.se/ja_linux/). It looks like it's very powerful,
>and crucially it runs with low resources (I'm using a custom Ubuntu 8.10
>   on the OLPC XO laptop). Unfortunately mx44 is very undocumented, to
>the point of several of the widgets in the GUI not even having labels.
>
>Could somebody answer these basic questions?
>
>(1) How are the 4 oscillators enumerated (left->right or top->bottom)?

1 2
3 4

>(2) What do the unlabeled radio buttons and check-boxes do?

which ones?   iirc they all have tool tips which pop up under mouse hover.


>(3) Where are the frequency / pitch key follow controls? If I start a
>patch from scratch I can't get an oscillator to make more than one
>pitch. Perhaps I need to bring a second oscillator into play?

Setting the frequency multiplier is quite an important one, if starting
from scratch (ie silence).

I'm not in a position to be running it right now so can't help much
further than that.

James.


>
>thanks,
>mh.
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