On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 02:17:12 +0200
louis cherel <cherel.louis(a)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