10 Oct
2005
10 Oct
'05
7:46 p.m.
On Oct 9, 2005, at 11:18 AM, Jens M Andreasen wrote:
Yeah, addicted is right. I code in a very experimental, improvisational
way. If I could manage only a _few_ cycles of scrapping and
reinventing,
I would be much more efficient!
On Oct 9, 2005, at 8:45 AM, derek holzer wrote:
Let Bolton speak for himself, please. Gentlemen please
...
Bolton speaks for himself, thusly:
On Oct 8, 2005, at 10:30 PM, Jens M Andreasen wrote:
Whoaa!
Some really impressive specs. Are you trying to corner the market as in
"the only soffsynth you'll ever, ever need!!" :)
Right-o, as in Guinness is the only beer you'll ever, ever need,
and Gentoo is the only distro you'll ever, ever need!!
Do you have some rough statistics on number of
voices/gigahertz?
That depends on the patch. With a simple two-oscillator, single filter
patch playing 16 voices, my 933MHz Pentium 3 barely breaks a sweat
(17% CPU according to top, 22% according to qjackctl). One the other
hand, with the most expensive patch I can think of, it maxes out at
only two voices.
On Oct 9, 2005, at 3:33 AM, Jens M Andreasen wrote:
WhySynth, as
in (I sometimes ask), "_why_ am I working on another
softsynth instead of on paying gigs?" (Following my bliss?
Addiction? One last shot at misspent youth?)
Heh :) Once you have done one, you are addicted.
This is not nescessarily a bad thing. Laying out a synthesizer
requires
as much consideration as laying out say; the main theme for film-score.
A few cycles of scrapping and reinventing is expected, perhaps even
required. Very nice, hours of fun in there to be sure. But how
can you handle
MIDI bindings? For example, to control one of the filter resonance
knobs rather than just the MIDI note/pitchwheel in?
That's one of the things I haven't done yet, and one of the awkward
parts of DSSI. Several people (two?) have pointed out that DSSI
provides for binding MIDI CCs/NRPNs to ports ('knobs'), but the plugin
must declare these bindings to the host before the GUI gets a chance
to run. So you either have to make them hard-coded, or require
the user to exit-and-restart in order to implement custom bindings.
If you wanna hard-code your own bindings, I'll tell you how....
(Just look in src/dssp_synth.c for the Y_PORT_GLIDE_TIME binding
to the MIDI portamento time CC, follow the example, and recompile :-/)
Thanks, everyone, for your comments and questions,
-Sean