Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 602 from 2010/10/27
The author of HD-Rec has made a post in Amigaworld.net that I think some of you might find to be of particular interest:
http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=27401&forum=15
Wanderer:
"I am currently planing a new softsynth for HD-Rec (or other CAMD oriented apps).
Because I am in planning phase, everything is still open. I was wondering, what features people really like in synthesizers.
I will do a graphic to explain my so-far-plan, but here quickly in text form:
* 4 waveform generators that can be connected by various alogrithms
* algorithms: FM, AM (multiply), wave shaping (lookup), mix (add)
* waveform generator can be sample, noise, saw, triangle, square, free-hand
(wheras interally they are all the same, just looped samples)
* all generators have a wave sample (or multisample), an LFO and Envelope that are freely assignable to pitch, volume and others.
* wavesamples can be pitched in harmonic intervalls
* at the end of the wave generator chain is a filter with various HighPass/BandPass/LowPass/Distorsion implementations, including LFO and Envelope
* Appregiator (e.g. for C64 blurb sounds)
The whole thing makes a "layer". An instrument can consist of 1 to 4 layers.
What do you think? Is this a good and flexible synth, or is something missing?
Such a synth can do old-school C64 sound, but also mature synth sounds and acoustic instuments via samples."
"I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it." - Jack Handey
Registered MorphOS user, Amiga user, and Atari 8-bit user.
