[linux-audio-user] status of ams

[Malte Steiner]

Hello
> I just rediscovered ams. What a nice synth! Actually I started 
> implementing some of the few things I feel is missing. However it seems 
> to me that nobody's using, at least the mailing lists are totally dead. So:
> 
> 1) Anyone using it?
I regulary try it and I am really amazed by the sound. But many parts of 
the sound is based on LADSPA plugins and I work now with these in my 
preferred environment pd, archieving the same sound.
> 
> 2) If not, why? Don't need/understand this type of synth? Use something 
> else (what) instead? Technical reasons/limitations?
Handling is a bit clumsy. Screen estate is wasted by the big objects, no 
subpachtes available and I always accidently connect wrong ports. I 
think small changes here and there would have great effects in terms of 
usability.
> 
> 3) If you ever tried what did you love about it and what did you hate? 
> Did you find user friendly? Did it perform well?
> 
> 4) To rephrase 2): If the project was resurrected, what would it take 
> for *you* to start using it.
> 
A nice thing would be a separete storage of patch settings. I want to 
create a synthesizer (the patch) and store different sound settings like 
on a non modular synth since the 80s. So I can recall different sounds 
without reloading the whole dsp graph.

I could also look in the code, its a timeproblem at the moment.

Cheers,

Malte

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Malte Steiner
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