29 Jun
2009
29 Jun
'09
8:40 a.m.
Hi,
I've been working on a modular synth builder for a while and I've just
put the first release up on SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=262459&package_id…
(It requires slv2, GooCanvas 0.14, and the ladspa-swh-plugins if you
want to build it.)
There are also some screenshots here (the second one shows the created
synth in use):
https://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=262459
This is all pre-alpha stuff so don't expect it to work that well yet (or
even compile easily!). It can only create fairly basic synths at
present.
I could do with some help checking over the basic architecture and
prioritising future work, so join the mailing list on sourceforge if you
want to get involved.
Damon
29 Jun
29 Jun
11:54 a.m.
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:12 AM, Damon
Chaplin<damon(a)karuna.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
Hi,
I've been working on a modular synth builder for a while and I've just
put the first release up on SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=262459&package_id…
(It requires slv2, GooCanvas 0.14, and the ladspa-swh-plugins if you
want to build it.)
There are also some screenshots here (the second one shows the created
synth in use):
https://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=262459
This is all pre-alpha stuff so don't expect it to work that well yet (or
even compile easily!). It can only create fairly basic synths at
present.
I could do with some help checking over the basic architecture and
prioritising future work, so join the mailing list on sourceforge if you
want to get involved.
Damon
Now, now, that does look like fun.
First, good luck with this. Seems like a cool toy.
Second, thanks for making it available.
Cheers,
Mark
4:23 p.m.
Hi Damon,
thank you for this piece of software. It looks very promising.
It looks a bit like SynthEdit, isn't it ?
I dream about a SynthEdit for linux, wich could export patch into LV2 or
LADSPA plugins. Please tell me that you are doing it !! :D
Well, I tested it a bit, and here are my first impressions :
- no problems to compile
- looks easy and intuitive to use
- perhaps a right click should be an alternative to the menu (add modules /
modules properties ...)
- I got many xruns with Jack when I play a note and move my mouse focusing
differents windows.
- no problem loading VST or LV2
- a left click to select multiples modules
- I didn't find how to delete a preset manager
- I got many : "librdf fatal - Cannot add statement to model" running
Synthforge (I think this is not a synthforge issue)
Thank you again for your work
cheers,
Mysth-R
2009/6/29 Mark Knecht <markknecht(a)gmail.com>
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:12 AM, Damon
Chaplin<damon(a)karuna.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
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Hi,
I've been working on a modular synth builder for a while and I've just
put the first release up on SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=262459&package_id…
(It requires slv2, GooCanvas 0.14, and the ladspa-swh-plugins if you
want to build it.)
There are also some screenshots here (the second one shows the created
synth in use):
https://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=262459
This is all pre-alpha stuff so don't expect it to work that well yet (or
even compile easily!). It can only create fairly basic synths at
present.
I could do with some help checking over the basic architecture and
prioritising future work, so join the mailing list on sourceforge if you
want to get involved.
Damon
Now, now, that does look like fun.
First, good luck with this. Seems like a cool toy.
Second, thanks for making it available.
Cheers,
Mark
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5:24 p.m.
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Mysth-R<mysthr21(a)gmail.com> wrote:
- I got many : "librdf fatal - Cannot add
statement to model" running
Synthforge (I think this is not a synthforge issue)
This is common for programs using a particular back-end in a
particular release of the Raptor RDF datastore (e.g. anything using
the SLV2 library, plus a number of other programs). It's generally
quite benign -- the bug is that the message is printed when it
shouldn't have been.
Chris
5:28 p.m.
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 20:23 +0200, Mysth-R wrote:
Hi Damon,
thank you for this piece of software. It looks very promising.
It looks a bit like SynthEdit, isn't it ?
I dream about a SynthEdit for linux, wich could export patch into LV2
or LADSPA plugins. Please tell me that you are doing it !! :D
Yes, it is very similar to SynthEdit, and Reaktor. (I have Reaktor, and
some of the synths available are excellent. I hope SynthForge can be
used to create lots of synths like those someday.)
I'd like to turn SynthForge into an LV2 plugin with a GUI that can be
used in a DAW like Ardour. I'm not sure about exporting projects as
separate LV2 or LADSPA plugins - the SynthForge engine would still be
needed to run the projects, so I'm not sure you gain much by creating
separate LV2/LADSPA plugins (and it would be a lot of work to support
that). Reaktor doesn't export plugins either - you just load in the
ensemble project files. That seems to work OK.
Well, I tested it a bit, and here are my first
impressions :
- perhaps a right click should be an alternative to
the menu (add
modules / modules properties ...)
Yes.
- I got many xruns with Jack when I play a note and
move my mouse
focusing differents windows.
I don't get many here. But it is easy to overload the CPU if the number
of voices & unison settings are high. Is your CPU usage very high? Try
reducing the number of voices to see if that fixes it.
I'll try to optimise it at some point to bring down the CPU usage.
- a left click to select multiples modules
Yes.
- I didn't find how to delete a preset manager
It's a bit awkward at present. You have to middle-click or Control
+left-click on the buttons on the right of the preset manager to select
it. Then hit the Delete toolbar button. I'll try to make it easier in
future (GTK+ is being awkward!)
- I got many : "librdf fatal - Cannot add
statement to model" running
Synthforge (I think this is not a synthforge issue)
Yes, that sounds like a librdf bug. I think I had that problem with an
old version. Try updating them.
Damon
5:52 p.m.
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Mysth-R<mysthr21(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Damon,
thank you for this piece of software. It looks very promising.
It looks a bit like SynthEdit, isn't it ?
I dream about a SynthEdit for linux, wich could export patch into LV2 or
LADSPA plugins. Please tell me that you are doing it !! :D
CLAM: http://clam-project.org/
don't be fooled by the "C++ library" description. read on and look for
screenshots. CLAM does all this and more.
30 Jun
30 Jun
12:45 p.m.
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 15:52 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:23 PM,
Mysth-R<mysthr21(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think CLAM is more of a general-purpose audio processing toolkit. I'm
not sure it handles things like preset management, or easy MIDI
processing that you'd get from something like SynthEdit or Reaktor.
(Well, I haven't been able to find them.)
Damon
Hi Damon,
thank you for this piece of software. It looks very promising.
It looks a bit like SynthEdit, isn't it ?
I dream about a SynthEdit for linux, wich could export patch into LV2 or
LADSPA plugins. Please tell me that you are doing it !! :D
CLAM: http://clam-project.org/
don't be fooled by the "C++ library" description. read on and look for
screenshots. CLAM does all this and more. 
29 Jun
29 Jun
5:40 p.m.
reminds me a bit on Alsa Modular Synthesizer, but check SynthForge out soon.
Cheers,
Malte
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6:44 p.m.
Hi Damon,
On Monday 29 June 2009 12.12.03 Damon Chaplin wrote:
...
(It requires slv2, GooCanvas 0.14, and the
ladspa-swh-plugins if you
want to build it.)
Looks very cool and promising, thanks! I really want to try it, but have some
trouble:
I'm using CCRMA on Fedora 10 and had to compile never versions of slv2,
rasqal, raptor and redland in another location in order to make it compile.
After installation it won't start and complains with:
[josander@jca-studio rdf]$ synthforge
librdf error URI file:///usr/lib/lv2/synthforge.lv2/manifest.ttl - file
'/usr/lib/lv2/synthforge.lv2/manifest.ttl' open failed - No such file or
directory
Segmentation fault
Can't say I find manifest.ttl for synthforge anywhere. Any idea?
Thanks! :-)
Jostein
7 p.m.
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 22:44 +0200, Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote:
Hi Damon,
On Monday 29 June 2009 12.12.03 Damon Chaplin wrote:
...
I took the .ttl files out of the distribution because the LV2 plugin
doesn't really work yet.
Is there anything in your /usr/lib/lv2/synthforge.lv2 ?
Try removing the directory, if it is empty.
Damon
(It requires slv2, GooCanvas 0.14, and the
ladspa-swh-plugins if you
want to build it.)
Looks very cool and promising, thanks! I really want to try it, but have some
trouble:
I'm using CCRMA on Fedora 10 and had to compile never versions of slv2,
rasqal, raptor and redland in another location in order to make it compile.
After installation it won't start and complains with:
[josander@jca-studio rdf]$ synthforge
librdf error URI file:///usr/lib/lv2/synthforge.lv2/manifest.ttl - file
'/usr/lib/lv2/synthforge.lv2/manifest.ttl' open failed - No such file or
directory
Segmentation fault
Can't say I find manifest.ttl for synthforge anywhere. Any idea?
30 Jun
30 Jun
3:55 a.m.
On Monday 29 June 2009 22.58.39 Damon Chaplin wrote:
I did, and a new error comes up:
$ synthforge
synthforge: error while loading shared libraries: synthforge.so: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
I will try to fix this later this week, but lack of time might delay that
plan. Thanks anyway. :-)
Jostein
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 22:44 +0200, Jostein Chr.
Andersen wrote:
...
Can't say
I find manifest.ttl for synthforge anywhere. Any idea?
I took the .ttl files out of the distribution because the LV2 plugin
doesn't really work yet.
Is there anything in your /usr/lib/lv2/synthforge.lv2 ?
Try removing the directory, if it is empty.
5:40 a.m.
On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 07:55 +0200, Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote:
On Monday 29 June 2009 22.58.39 Damon Chaplin wrote:
I did, and a new error comes up:
$ synthforge
synthforge: error while loading shared libraries: synthforge.so: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
Oh yes, the libraries get installed there as well, so you can't delete
it.
I can reproduce the error you see, but the synth still works OK here.
If you can re-install it and get a stack trace that would be useful.
Otherwise it may be better to wait until it is a bit more stable.
Damon
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 22:44 +0200, Jostein Chr.
Andersen wrote:
...
Can't
say I find manifest.ttl for synthforge anywhere. Any idea?
I took the .ttl files out of the distribution because the LV2 plugin
doesn't really work yet.
Is there anything in your /usr/lib/lv2/synthforge.lv2 ?
Try removing the directory, if it is empty.
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