Re: [linux-audio-user] Your synth wishlist? - Linux-audio-user

4 Aug 2004

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  -----Original Message-----
 From: Dave Robillard [mailto:drobilla@connect.carleton.ca] 
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    Snap in
modules... Maybe a full screen version of Reactor that could scroll vertically
  or horizontally... A visual means of patching back and forth... Maybe not as literal 
 as Moog Modular but clear and easy to read.  
 Sorry, I don't really know what you mean by any of this.  Screenshots,
 better explanation?  The planned GUI will be something like ams, is that
 similar to what you're thinking? 
Snap-in... just means modules that are easy to plug and unplug. Probably visually.

Actually, Reason's probably closer. If it would work with virtual desktops and  there
were some planning put into placement of gui stuff {omnipresent, floating toolbars,etc.}
that might be nice. 

http://www.propellerheads.se/

Moog modular uses realistic patch cables to interconnect modules. I'm thinking that
uses way too many resources. Something simpler would be better.

http://www.arturia.com/en/mmscreenshots.html

Jahshaka does things in screens.

http://www.jahshaka.com/

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  > A nice simple gui like Vokator. Possibly with
screens like Jahshaka/Blender so you could
 > page rather than scroll and still keep the screen uncluttered. {I hate clutter}.

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  I havn't used those apps but I'll scourge the
net for screenshots..  
 http://www.nativeinstruments.de/index.php?vokator_us

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    VST is
essential. ...LADSPA.  
 Personally not into proprietary plugins very much at all.  I'm not
 against the idea of VST support, I just don't care.  I might get around
 to it sometime. 
 Many people are though. There are a huge number of vst plugins. It would vastly increase
your user base very quickly:

http://www.kvr-vst.com/

If you look through the Kvr database... you might pay attention to how many are written
with Synthedit.

http://www.synthedit.com/

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    A timeline
like the one in http://openvip.sourceforge.net/ would rock... either to actually do video
or to set up samples.  
 Hmm.. that's sequencer stuff, not really in the domain of this prog. 
 Unless it's integrated with the below-mentioned "OSC sequencer". 
 hmmmm.. 
 I was just thinking of it in terms of a module. Osc does make it very modular already
though. I'd not actually considered that. I was thinking of it in terms of a large
internal thing.

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    Automation
would be nice  
 Actually I'm thinking about writing an 'OSC sequencer' to do
 automation-like things.  Not sure about the feasibility of that though. 
 :} Maybe with a timeline?

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    PVM? That way
you could stretch it across a cluster. Mosix? Maybe peer2peer midi {Freshmeat}?
 Eyesweb compatibility {should they ever happen to port it}?  
 aaaand yet again OSC. :) 
 How's that? Code optimized for Parallel virtual machines and Mosix clusters... lots
of processing power cheap. Peer2peer midi synchs it netwide. You could potentially have an
orchestra that spanned the globe and have it operate within the same framework. {Though
this does place a twist into the idea of virtual patch cords. :}}

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    FM? {See
Lollapalooza} Additive functions? {Cube, Cameleon}  
 Being a modular, methods of synthesis are the users problem, not mine.
 :)

 Thanks for the input. 
 Alrighty...