This sounds like a very interesting software for me, but I have no experience with similar software, so I have no clue how I would go about to use this one, and I can't seem to find any tutorial on how to do it?<br><br>
Thanks! Regards,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Devin Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:surfacepatterns@gmail.com">surfacepatterns@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I'm happy to announce the first beta release of `synthclone`!<br>
<br>
`synthclone` is a Qt-based application that can "clone" your<br>
MIDI-capable instruments. It does this by sending out MIDI data that<br>
instructs an instrument to emit sounds for a series of notes,<br>
velocities, controls, and aftertouch values. It then saves this data<br>
as a sample-based instrument that can be loaded by sampler software.<br>
<br>
Features:<br>
<br>
* Supports user-configurable per-zone sample time, release time, MIDI<br>
note, MIDI velocity, MIDI aftertouch, MIDI channel pressure, MIDI<br>
control changes, etc. via a table interface.<br>
* Audition samples and change zone parameters until you're happy with<br>
the data you're acquiring from your MIDI device/software.<br>
* Save and restore sessions.<br>
* Distributed with plugins that support the JACK Audio Connection Kit<br>
(with JACK Session support), PortAudio and PortMidi, trimming of<br>
samples, the creation of patches for Hydrogen and SFZ, and automated<br>
zone generation.<br>
* Can create multiple targets in one session (i.e. a Hydrogen patch<br>
and an SFZ patch) from the same set of samples.<br>
* A well-documented plugin API is available for developers to write<br>
their own plugins to extend synthclone.<br>
<br>
Important Changes Since 0.1.0:<br>
<br>
* Lots of bug fixes.<br>
* Added a "portable" semaphore implementation to the plugin API.<br>
* Added the new PortMedia plugin, which supports sampling via<br>
PortAudio and PortMidi.<br>
* Get `synthclone` to compile on Mac OSX.<br>
* Change build system to use traditional `./configure`, `make`, `make<br>
install` scheme.<br>
* Add new 'debian' target for building Debian packages (`./configure<br>
--prefix=/usr`, `make debian`).<br>
<br>
Future Development:<br>
<br>
* Figure out a good packaging scheme for Mac OSX.<br>
* Support the Non-Session Manager protocol.<br>
* Write a plugin that creates Renoise instruments.<br>
* Write a plugin that loads LADSPA effects.<br>
* Write a plugin that loads LV2 effects.<br>
* Write a plugin that loads samples from the filesystem (expanding on<br>
the plugin created in this tutorial:<br>
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/synthclone/wiki/TutorialWritingASimplePluginPart1" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/synthclone/wiki/TutorialWritingASimplePluginPart1</a>)<br>
* Consider different ways to support the detection and/or creation of loops.<br>
<br>
The new version of `synthclone` is available at:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://synthclone.googlecode.com/" target="_blank">http://synthclone.googlecode.com/</a><br>
<br>
Please report bugs using the issue tracker:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/synthclone/issues/list" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/synthclone/issues/list</a><br>
<br>
If you like `synthclone` and have ideas that can make it better and/or<br>
want to keep up with its progress, join the users group:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/synthclone-users" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/synthclone-users</a><br>
<br>
If you're a developer and want to write plugins for `synthclone` or<br>
contribute to the application itself, join the development group:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/synthclone-development" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/synthclone-development</a><br>
<br>
Thanks, and hope to meet some of you next week at the Linux Audio Conference.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
Devin Anderson<br>
surfacepatterns (at) gmail (dot) com<br>
<br>
blog - <a href="http://surfacepatterns.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://surfacepatterns.blogspot.com/</a><br>
synthclone - <a href="http://synthclone.googlecode.com/" target="_blank">http://synthclone.googlecode.com/</a><br>
_______________________________________________<br>
Linux-audio-user mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org">Linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user" target="_blank">http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user</a><br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br>