23 Sep
2007
23 Sep
'07
12:24 p.m.
Hartmut Noack wrote:
Great, that's sort of what I'm looking for, but how in the world do I
use it? Most of the examples I load want LADSPA plugins that I don't
have, and all the modules have lots of letters in their names with
nothing to tell me what they actually do. And I don't know enough to
create a piano sounding waveform from a bunch of oscillators.
Parameter-Knobs/Sliders in synth-apps capable to react
to
MIDI-control-messages.
Would you care to name some of these synth-apps?
So I can alter the subharmonics of the second
oscillator of a synth-patch
Sounds good, but I'm yet to find a synth which actually responds to midi
controls.
while playing by comfortably turning a handy
knob on my MIDI-Keyb.(instead fiddeling around with the mousecursor)
That's exactly why I want to get mine to do things.
3. Is there
any Linux software which will make use of them?
YES:
Alsa Modular Synth: Ardour:
I can't actually work out how to use Ardour. It's way too complicated
for what I currently need. Does it even have a synth?
23 Sep
23 Sep
12:27 p.m.
New subject: Programs which use midi control knobs/sliders
On 9/23/07, Simon Williams <simon(a)systemparadox.co.uk> wrote:
Hartmut Noack wrote:
Great, that's sort of what I'm looking for, but how in the world do I
use it? Most of the examples I load want LADSPA plugins that I don't
have, and all the modules have lots of letters in their names with
nothing to tell me what they actually do. And I don't know enough to
create a piano sounding waveform from a bunch of oscillators.
Get ingen and follow some of the examples on the website. Many other
LV2 or dssi hosts do midi binding i think.
Loki
Parameter-Knobs/Sliders in synth-apps capable to
react to
MIDI-control-messages.
Would you care to name some of these synth-apps?
So I can alter the subharmonics of the second
oscillator of a synth-patch
Sounds good, but I'm yet to find a synth which actually responds to midi
controls.
while playing by comfortably turning a handy
knob on my MIDI-Keyb.(instead fiddeling around with the mousecursor)
That's exactly why I want to get mine to do things.
3. Is
there any Linux software which will make use of them?
YES:
Alsa Modular Synth: Ardour:
I can't actually work out how to use Ardour. It's way too complicated
for what I currently need. Does it even have a synth?
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5:15 p.m.
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On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 03:18:39PM +0100, Simon Williams wrote:
Again, 10 minutes with PHASEX and you'll be happily twiddling knobs like a madman.
Mmmmmmm... knobs.... http://www.umop.com/art/kb008.jpg
Great, that's sort of what I'm looking for, but how in the world do I
use it? Most of the examples I load want LADSPA plugins that I don't
have, and all the modules have lots of letters in their names with
nothing to tell me what they actually do. And I don't know enough to
create a piano sounding waveform from a bunch of oscillators.
Dude, you're whining ;-)
AMS was abandoned before being quite finished. A couple people on this list have recently
picked it up and done some very useful bug-fixes and optimisations on it, but really it
needs to be rewritten to do things like dynamic voicings and to have a modern, friendly
GUI.
However, the "missing LADSPA plugins" problem is well-known. I think those
patches require the blvco plugins, and the g2verb plugins, for which no Debian package
exists. A long time ago I talked about creating packages for those but haven't yet got
around to doing it. Google will turn up the source for them; IIRC they compiled easily.
AMS is a great synth once you get it set up and get used to it; I am going to go play it
live about 3 hours from now.
Heh. No, it's a DAW. It also hosts LADSPA effects plugins, but I can't imagine
trying to use it as a synth. Although I'm sure that someone will try. How do I know
this? Because someone already made a whole CD by using ProTools as a synth:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/googleplex . I'm told that all the sine waves on that CD are test
tones in ProTools, which were pitch-shifted and hand-placed in the tracks. It's not
made with linux, sadly, but it's some great music anyway.
- -ken
Hartmut Noack wrote:
I suggest getting started with PHASEX. I find it among the easiest linux synths to use and
understand, and just about everthing in it is easily assigned to MIDI controllers. It
might be more fun to play with that for a while before trying to tackle AMS and Om/Ingen.
So I can alter the subharmonics of the second
oscillator of a synth-patch
Sounds good, but I'm yet to find a synth which actually responds to midi
controls. while playing by comfortably turning a handy
knob on my MIDI-Keyb.(instead fiddeling around with the mousecursor)
That's exactly why I want to get mine to do things. 
3. Is
there any Linux software which will make use of them?
YES:
Alsa Modular Synth: Ardour:
I can't actually work out how to use Ardour. It's way too complicated
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5:53 p.m.
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On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:15:06 -0700
Ken Restivo <ken(a)restivo.org> wrote:
<snippety snip>
Heh. No, it's a DAW. It also hosts LADSPA effects
plugins, but I can't imagine trying to use it as a synth. Although I'm sure that
someone will try. How do I know this? Because someone already made a whole CD by using
ProTools as a synth: http://cdbaby.com/cd/googleplex . I'm told that all the sine
waves on that CD are test tones in ProTools, which were pitch-shifted and hand-placed in
the tracks. It's not made with linux, sadly, but it's some great music anyway.
anything with an audio input, output, gain & the most rudimetary filter
can be used as a synth :)
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
24 Sep
24 Sep
7:22 a.m.
New subject: Programs which use midi control knobs/sliders
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:52:59 +0100> From:
folderol(a)ukfsn.org> To: linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org> Subject: Re: [LAU]
Programs which use midi control knobs/sliders> > On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:15:06
-0700> Ken Restivo <ken(a)restivo.org> wrote:> > <snippety snip>>
> > Heh. No, it's a DAW. It also hosts LADSPA effects plugins, but I can't
imagine trying to use it as a synth. Although I'm sure that someone will try. How do I
know this? Because someone already made a whole CD by using ProTools as a synth:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/googleplex . I'm told that all the sine waves on that CD are test
tones in ProTools, which were pitch-shifted and hand-placed in the tracks. It's not
made with linux, sadly, but it's some great music anyway.>
Bristol can tie
any midi controller to a movable device, including buttons and all that good stuff. It
does ship with a set of GM2 controller mappings however these are not installed by
default, that may change in the next release. Anything else can be tied with
middle-mouse/move-controller.
Settings are saved when you write a memory.
Only downside is that you have to connect both the audio engine, bristol, and the gui
brighton to the MIDI device to get it to work. Midi controls can also be remapped and have
curve remapping, all that stuff that a synth should do.
Nick.
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25 Sep
2:04 p.m.
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Ken Restivo wrote:
Heh. No, it's a DAW. It also hosts LADSPA effects plugins, but I
can't imagine trying to use it as a synth. Although I'm sure that
someone will try. How do I know this? Because someone already made
a whole CD by using ProTools as a synth:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/googleplex . I'm told that all the sine waves
on that CD are test tones in ProTools, which were pitch-shifted and
hand-placed in the tracks. It's not made with linux, sadly, but
it's some great music anyway.
I once heard a piece of by someone in Japan by plugging a mixing desk
into itself. A surprisingly versatile instrument as it turned out.
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On Sunday 23 September 2007 15:18:39 Simon Williams wrote:
Hartmut Noack wrote:
You can control all of nekobee's controls with MIDI. You might need to dig a
little into the source code to alter the parameters that you need to send.
They're defined in nekobee_synth.h at the bottom.
The defaults are:
Tuning: 0x4b
Square/Saw: 0x46
Cutoff: 0x4a
Resonance: 0x47
Env Mod: 0x01 (modwheel)
Decay: 0x48
Accent: 0x4c
Volume: 0x07
Gordon
Parameter-Knobs/Sliders in synth-apps capable to
react to
MIDI-control-messages.
Would you care to name some of these synth-apps?
So I can alter the subharmonics of the second
oscillator of a synth-patch
Sounds good, but I'm yet to find a synth which actually responds to midi
controls.
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