[linux-audio-user] Re: SpiralSynthModular help

Nigel Henry cave.dnb at tiscali.fr
Sun Mar 12 15:37:37 EST 2006


On Sunday 12 March 2006 21:04, Joseph Jones wrote:
> On 3/12/06, Loki Davison <loki.davison at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > this does not explain, what he needs to do, to get a non constant tone,
> > >
> > > a "tone" consists of a frequency, and some dynamics such as attack and
> > > release. you add these properties by multiplying the output of the
> > > oscilator, with an adsr envelope.
> > >
> > >  /\___
> > > /     \
> > > a d s r
> > >
> > > attack, decay, sustain, release
> > >
> > > the sustain, is obviously controlled by how long you hold your key
> > > down, so you will need to hook up the midi in to the adsr as well.
> > >
> > > please ommers, point him to somewhere, where that is explained, a
> > > little better...
> >
> > Well, for a start open up the demo patches in om and the smack patches
> > if you want to do some percussive stuff. Look at the om wiki that
> > explains stuff quite nicely. http://atte.dk/om-wiki Then read synth
> > secrets online on the sound on sound website.
> > http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may99/articles/synthsec.htm
> >
> > Really great stuff there and it will help you to understand the basic
> > of modular synthesis. That with the example patches should have you
> > creating nice stuff. Add to the wiki as well so someone can learn from
> > your mistakes too! ;-)
> >
> > Loki
>
> That's great! Thanks peeps. I was also looking at omsynth, but I've
> been trying to avoid installing stuff not in the DeMuDi distro, as
> that's always a slippery slide for me to apt-nightmares :) But it
> looks like I'm gonna give it a try, if only so I've got  some support
> ie. the wiki.
>
> The synth 101 stuff was pretty useful too :) Thanks.
>
> Now, is anyone aware of an apt repo or deb package for omsynth? ;)

Hi Joseph. http://willem.engens.nl/debian . there are instructions for the URL 
to be added to /etc/apt/aources.list there. Nigel.

BTW. I got the DSSI stuff for my Sarge install from there.
>
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> Joe Jones
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