7 Apr
2012
7 Apr
'12
9:30 a.m.
I'm happy to announce the first beta release of `synthclone`!
`synthclone` is a Qt-based application that can "clone" your
MIDI-capable instruments. It does this by sending out MIDI data that
instructs an instrument to emit sounds for a series of notes,
velocities, controls, and aftertouch values. It then saves this data
as a sample-based instrument that can be loaded by sampler software.
Features:
* Supports user-configurable per-zone sample time, release time, MIDI
note, MIDI velocity, MIDI aftertouch, MIDI channel pressure, MIDI
control changes, etc. via a table interface.
* Audition samples and change zone parameters until you're happy with
the data you're acquiring from your MIDI device/software.
* Save and restore sessions.
* Distributed with plugins that support the JACK Audio Connection Kit
(with JACK Session support), PortAudio and PortMidi, trimming of
samples, the creation of patches for Hydrogen and SFZ, and automated
zone generation.
* Can create multiple targets in one session (i.e. a Hydrogen patch
and an SFZ patch) from the same set of samples.
* A well-documented plugin API is available for developers to write
their own plugins to extend synthclone.
Important Changes Since 0.1.0:
* Lots of bug fixes.
* Added a "portable" semaphore implementation to the plugin API.
* Added the new PortMedia plugin, which supports sampling via
PortAudio and PortMidi.
* Get `synthclone` to compile on Mac OSX.
* Change build system to use traditional `./configure`, `make`, `make
install` scheme.
* Add new 'debian' target for building Debian packages (`./configure
--prefix=/usr`, `make debian`).
Future Development:
* Figure out a good packaging scheme for Mac OSX.
* Support the Non-Session Manager protocol.
* Write a plugin that creates Renoise instruments.
* Write a plugin that loads LADSPA effects.
* Write a plugin that loads LV2 effects.
* Write a plugin that loads samples from the filesystem (expanding on
the plugin created in this tutorial:
http://code.google.com/p/synthclone/wiki/TutorialWritingASimplePluginPart1)
* Consider different ways to support the detection and/or creation of loops.
The new version of `synthclone` is available at:
http://synthclone.googlecode.com/
Please report bugs using the issue tracker:
http://code.google.com/p/synthclone/issues/list
If you like `synthclone` and have ideas that can make it better and/or
want to keep up with its progress, join the users group:
http://groups.google.com/group/synthclone-users
If you're a developer and want to write plugins for `synthclone` or
contribute to the application itself, join the development group:
http://groups.google.com/group/synthclone-development
Thanks, and hope to meet some of you next week at the Linux Audio Conference.
--
Devin Anderson
surfacepatterns (at) gmail (dot) com
blog - http://surfacepatterns.blogspot.com/
synthclone - http://synthclone.googlecode.com/
8 Apr
8 Apr
3:44 p.m.
This sounds like a very interesting software for me, but I have no
experience with similar software, so I have no clue how I would go about to
use this one, and I can't seem to find any tutorial on how to do it?
Thanks! Regards,
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Devin Anderson
<surfacepatterns(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
I'm happy to announce the first beta release of
`synthclone`!
`synthclone` is a Qt-based application that can "clone" your
MIDI-capable instruments. It does this by sending out MIDI data that
instructs an instrument to emit sounds for a series of notes,
velocities, controls, and aftertouch values. It then saves this data
as a sample-based instrument that can be loaded by sampler software.
Features:
* Supports user-configurable per-zone sample time, release time, MIDI
note, MIDI velocity, MIDI aftertouch, MIDI channel pressure, MIDI
control changes, etc. via a table interface.
* Audition samples and change zone parameters until you're happy with
the data you're acquiring from your MIDI device/software.
* Save and restore sessions.
* Distributed with plugins that support the JACK Audio Connection Kit
(with JACK Session support), PortAudio and PortMidi, trimming of
samples, the creation of patches for Hydrogen and SFZ, and automated
zone generation.
* Can create multiple targets in one session (i.e. a Hydrogen patch
and an SFZ patch) from the same set of samples.
* A well-documented plugin API is available for developers to write
their own plugins to extend synthclone.
Important Changes Since 0.1.0:
* Lots of bug fixes.
* Added a "portable" semaphore implementation to the plugin API.
* Added the new PortMedia plugin, which supports sampling via
PortAudio and PortMidi.
* Get `synthclone` to compile on Mac OSX.
* Change build system to use traditional `./configure`, `make`, `make
install` scheme.
* Add new 'debian' target for building Debian packages (`./configure
--prefix=/usr`, `make debian`).
Future Development:
* Figure out a good packaging scheme for Mac OSX.
* Support the Non-Session Manager protocol.
* Write a plugin that creates Renoise instruments.
* Write a plugin that loads LADSPA effects.
* Write a plugin that loads LV2 effects.
* Write a plugin that loads samples from the filesystem (expanding on
the plugin created in this tutorial:
http://code.google.com/p/synthclone/wiki/TutorialWritingASimplePluginPart1
)
* Consider different ways to support the detection and/or creation of
loops.
The new version of `synthclone` is available at:
http://synthclone.googlecode.com/
Please report bugs using the issue tracker:
http://code.google.com/p/synthclone/issues/list
If you like `synthclone` and have ideas that can make it better and/or
want to keep up with its progress, join the users group:
http://groups.google.com/group/synthclone-users
If you're a developer and want to write plugins for `synthclone` or
contribute to the application itself, join the development group:
http://groups.google.com/group/synthclone-development
Thanks, and hope to meet some of you next week at the Linux Audio
Conference.
--
Devin Anderson
surfacepatterns (at) gmail (dot) com
blog - http://surfacepatterns.blogspot.com/
synthclone - http://synthclone.googlecode.com/
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6:15 p.m.
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Gabbe Nord <gabbe.nord(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This sounds like a very interesting software for me,
but I have no
experience with similar software, so I have no clue how I would go about to
use this one, and I can't seem to find any tutorial on how to do it?
You're not the only person to bring up this problem. There is very
little documentation on how to use synthclone, and synthclone could
benefit from input from user-experience experts to make the software
more intuitive. Unfortunately, synthclone has been a one-person
operation up until now, and I'm not a user experience expert or
particularly good at writing documentation.
I would like to take some steps to rectify this problem. Here are
some ideas I have:
1.) Make a video tutorial on how to use synthclone.
I'm considering submitting a drum kit to the Hydrogen Spring Drum Kit
Contest by sampling kits I've made on my external drum synth using
synthclone. If and when I do, I'll create a video tutorial on how I
use synthclone to create the Hydrogen drum kit.
2.) Find some time to write documentation.
It might not be the greatest documentation ever, but it would be
something. The problem is that I wrote the software, and probably
make some bad assumptions about what the user does and doesn't know
that someone with a fresh perspective might not make.
3.) Get other people involved.
I would love to have other people join me in helping to make
synthclone better for everyone! So, if you are (or anyone out there
is) interested in contributing to synthclone, please let me know!
What do you think about these ideas? Do you have additional ideas
that might help?
I'll be at the Linux Audio Conference this week, so if you're going to
be at LAC and have some ideas you'd like to discuss, please let me
know.
--
Devin Anderson
surfacepatterns (at) gmail (dot) com
blog - http://surfacepatterns.blogspot.com/
synthclone - http://synthclone.googlecode.com/
6:41 p.m.
Hello Devin!
Your ideas all sound good, and I think a combination of video-tutorials and
writing documentation is the way to go. I would gladly volounteer to do a
basic tutorial if you teach me how to sample a synth through synthclone.
For example, I have a synth inside LMMS (TripleOscillator) that I would
love to sample and use in other apps. How would I go about doing that
inside synthclone? (I guess the explanation would suffice for any synth
connectable via a jack-midi port, right?). That could probably generate a
simple tutorial of basic synth-cloning from me. I do however have to say
that I within the next maybe two weeks have a pretty packed schedual, so I
cannot promise anything timewise.
Another idea would be a forum, or a thread in an existing forum well
populated by LAU's, making it easy to post instructions and/or tutorials
for synthclone. Make it a community effort!
I will not be around LAC unfortunately.
Cheers!
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Devin Anderson <surfacepatterns(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Gabbe Nord
<gabbe.nord(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This sounds like a very interesting software for
me, but I have no
experience with similar software, so I have no clue how I would go about
to
use this one, and I can't seem to find any
tutorial on how to do it?
You're not the only person to bring up this problem. There is very
little documentation on how to use synthclone, and synthclone could
benefit from input from user-experience experts to make the software
more intuitive. Unfortunately, synthclone has been a one-person
operation up until now, and I'm not a user experience expert or
particularly good at writing documentation.
I would like to take some steps to rectify this problem. Here are
some ideas I have:
1.) Make a video tutorial on how to use synthclone.
I'm considering submitting a drum kit to the Hydrogen Spring Drum Kit
Contest by sampling kits I've made on my external drum synth using
synthclone. If and when I do, I'll create a video tutorial on how I
use synthclone to create the Hydrogen drum kit.
2.) Find some time to write documentation.
It might not be the greatest documentation ever, but it would be
something. The problem is that I wrote the software, and probably
make some bad assumptions about what the user does and doesn't know
that someone with a fresh perspective might not make.
3.) Get other people involved.
I would love to have other people join me in helping to make
synthclone better for everyone! So, if you are (or anyone out there
is) interested in contributing to synthclone, please let me know!
What do you think about these ideas? Do you have additional ideas
that might help?
I'll be at the Linux Audio Conference this week, so if you're going to
be at LAC and have some ideas you'd like to discuss, please let me
know.
--
Devin Anderson
surfacepatterns (at) gmail (dot) com
blog - http://surfacepatterns.blogspot.com/
synthclone - http://synthclone.googlecode.com/
9 Apr
9 Apr
1:55 a.m.
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Gabbe Nord <gabbe.nord(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Your ideas all sound good, and I think a combination
of video-tutorials and
writing documentation is the way to go. I would gladly volounteer to do a
basic tutorial if you teach me how to sample a synth through synthclone. For
example, I have a synth inside LMMS (TripleOscillator) that I would love to
sample and use in other apps. How would I go about doing that inside
synthclone? (I guess the explanation would suffice for any synth connectable
via a jack-midi port, right?). That could probably generate a simple
tutorial of basic synth-cloning from me. I do however have to say that I
within the next maybe two weeks have a pretty packed schedual, so I cannot
promise anything timewise.
I'd love to take you up on that offer. Let me know when you have more
time. In the meantime, I'll try to find time to write some
documentation.
--
Devin Anderson
surfacepatterns (at) gmail (dot) com
blog - http://surfacepatterns.blogspot.com/
synthclone - http://synthclone.googlecode.com/
10 Apr
10 Apr
9:16 p.m.
2012/4/8 Devin Anderson <surfacepatterns(a)gmail.com>
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Gabbe Nord
<gabbe.nord(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yes good idea :-) dont hesitate !
This sounds like a very interesting software for
me, but I have no
experience with similar software, so I have no clue how I would go about
to
use this one, and I can't seem to find any
tutorial on how to do it?
You're not the only person to bring up this problem. There is very
little documentation on how to use synthclone, and synthclone could
benefit from input from user-experience experts to make the software
more intuitive. Unfortunately, synthclone has been a one-person
operation up until now, and I'm not a user experience expert or
particularly good at writing documentation.
I would like to take some steps to rectify this problem. Here are
some ideas I have:
1.) Make a video tutorial on how to use synthclone.
I'm considering submitting a drum kit to the Hydrogen Spring Drum Kit
Contest by sampling kits I've made on my external drum synth using
synthclone. If and when I do, I'll create a video tutorial on
how I
use synthclone to create the Hydrogen drum kit.
if you make this video i'll add it to the hydrogen tutorial videos page
right away
as you probably know, Wolke (one of the H2 devs) has already created a
number of kits using
synthclone<http://www.hydrogen-music.org/hcms/node/2022>so maybe he
has some input ?
2.) Find some time to write documentation.
It might not be the greatest documentation ever, but it would be
something. The problem is that I wrote the software, and probably
make some bad assumptions about what the user does and doesn't know
that someone with a fresh perspective might not make.
3.) Get other people involved.
I would love to have other people join me in helping to make
synthclone better for everyone! So, if you are (or anyone out there
is) interested in contributing to synthclone, please let me know!
What do you think about these ideas? Do you have additional ideas
that might help?
I'll be at the Linux Audio Conference this week, so if you're going to
be at LAC and have some ideas you'd like to discuss, please let me
know.
--
Devin Anderson
surfacepatterns (at) gmail (dot) com
blog - http://surfacepatterns.blogspot.com/
synthclone - http://synthclone.googlecode.com/
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