Hello
I just rediscovered ams. What a nice synth! Actually I started
implementing some of the few things I feel is missing. However it seems
to me that nobody's using, at least the mailing lists are totally dead. So:
1) Anyone using it?
I regulary try it and I am really amazed by the sound. But many parts of
the sound is based on LADSPA plugins and I work now with these in my
preferred environment pd, archieving the same sound.
2) If not, why? Don't need/understand this type of synth? Use something
else (what) instead? Technical reasons/limitations?
Handling is a bit clumsy. Screen estate is wasted by the big objects, no
subpachtes available and I always accidently connect wrong ports. I
think small changes here and there would have great effects in terms of
usability.
3) If you ever tried what did you love about it and what did you hate?
Did you find user friendly? Did it perform well?
4) To rephrase 2): If the project was resurrected, what would it take
for *you* to start using it.
A nice thing would be a separete storage of patch settings. I want to
create a synthesizer (the patch) and store different sound settings like
on a non modular synth since the 80s. So I can recall different sounds
without reloading the whole dsp graph.
I could also look in the code, its a timeproblem at the moment.
Cheers,
Malte
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Malte Steiner
media art + development
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