[LAD] Yoshimi Midi Learn: 1st testing release

Renato rennabh at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 20:53:18 UTC 2011


On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 02:17:12 +0200
louis cherel <cherel.louis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> Every one knows Yoshimi, the fork of ZynAddSubFx.
> One thing was lacking to yoshimi to be perfect: to be nearly fully
> controlled by midi controls ( no OSC, sorry ).
> ZynAddSubFx had possibilities to control a few parameters with
> complicated NRPN, Yoshimi recently had ( in the test versions ) some
> features too.
> But now I'm proud to announce you the work of licnep ( not me, I'm
> just a bug reporter ) who made the "midiLearn" function for yoshimi.
> It's not stable for now because it's recent, and not full, but here
> are the present features:
> 
> * Control System effects, Part Insert Effects
> * Master/Part Volume, Pan, System Effect Sends
> * Most of ADsynth parameters
> * Add/Remove controller
> * detect the channel and the number
> * reset the knob ( its position )
> I think it's a feature that's very useful and could help many
> yoshimi/zyn users.
> 
> To use it, that's simple: connect your controller to yoshimi,
> right-click on a blue knob ( yellow are ones which are not supported
> for now ) and click "midi Learn" move your controller, it detects
> automatically the controller.
> To see and modify controllers, go to the Yoshimi> MIDI controllers
> menu. To erase midi control of a knob, simply right click on it and
> click on "remove midi control"
> 
> Here is the gitHub repository: https://github.com/licnep/yoshimi
> 
> To download and install it, follow the explications link ( gitHub ):
> https://github.com/licnep/yoshimi/wiki/How-to
> 
> A light page to understand how to control others not implemented
> controllers:
> https://github.com/licnep/yoshimi/wiki/Source-code
> 
> Pages to follow the news of the project:
> Facebook:
> https://www.facebook.com/pages/Yoshimi-midi-learn/224823617534934
> Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/YoshimiMIDI
> 
> So if you're interrested, all bug requests are deeply recommended.
> 

finally got around testing this. what to say, it took me a while to
figure out how to edit a patch (there's no "Edit" button, you have to
right click on the name of the patch (like "4:Noise2") in the main
window) and I'm suffering from a bug to Adsynth that I think was
present in older versions of yoshimi - the scale is kind of messed up,
i.e. white keys in sequence don't produce a C major scale, BUT the midi
learn feature *really* adds to this synth, it makes new
automation universes possible. and we're talking about
yoshimi/zynaddsubfx which allready has quite a range of sounds.

So hooray for licnep :) Why doesn't he join the list and the
discussion (you could forward this mail to him, [un]fortunately I don't
use facebook/twitter)? has he proposed to merge his code with the main
branch? I'm not sure everyone would like the GUI changes, but the midi
learn feature I think really should find its way in the main branch.

cheers
renato



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