On 7/12/06, tim hall <tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Friday 07 July 2006 15:23, John Anderson was like: > ONe of the things that I find somewhat grating about certain soundfonts > is that the vibrato on strings is always exactly the same. Some way to > give that some variation would also be nice. Absolutely. The range and shape of the variations could be programmed into the instrument definition and linked to a spare MIDI controller. I can forsee us deprecating MIDI in favour of something like OSC for serious work, eventually. Obviously the format will have to remain negotiable for backwards compatibility reasons, but by and large I find MIDI and soundfonts so horrendously limited as to be only really useful for demos. I'd like to see proper microtonal support in all sound-producing applications, currently only ZynAddSubFX handles this nicely. For me 12Tet@A=440Hz always sounds out of tune. YMMV. Not being a confident programmer I'm finding Csound, supercollider and even Pd et al., rather complicated to get into and I have taxi'd up the runway many times, great for experimenting, but I haven't made the time to learn how to produce quality results - I suspect most ordinary musicians won't either. In general, I'm finding the process of creating new instrument sounds to be less straightforward than I would like it to be, be that editing soundfonts, csound orchestras, ZynAddSubFX patches or whatever. Really I'm yearning for analog synths, I have fond memories of playing with MS10s, SH101s and my old Pro1 and the kind of resonant filter sweeps that are possible with analog filters. Is the sound I am looking for simply not possible digitally? Would anyone with the appropriate skills consider modelling VCS3 or Prophet filters in software? The closest application is probably Alsa Modular Synth for what I want (as I'd like to be able to filter samples too), but it does appear to have limitations. I shall persevere, obviously. -- cheers,
ARRG you used the bad words!!!! AMS? I prefer a program that has a release in the last 2 years, i find it edging to impossible to do anything useful in AMS at all. Get the svn version of om/ingen http://www.nongnu.org/om-synth/ You can do a lot of nice analog style stuff with it. Many of the smack patches are analog style. Loki
