Appel à Eric Novaflash et Xavier KX77free....

kx77free a écrit:C'est des modules payants, il y un pack dispo pour l'ensemble?

Hi,

thank you very much for your answer.

In fact, when I speak about UI, it is not in order to loose the EMS look... On the contrary, I think that your synths must keep the EMS "wonderful crappiness", and look as close as possible to the original hardware machines, because they are true emulations of these great machines... But the style of drawing could be much improved, to give them a professional UI, as precise and well finished as the so expensive Rehberg's emulation (and, why not, more ?!).

Eric Langou spoke to you yesterday on SE forum, and this very kind man is "Novaflash" who did all the work there :
http://www.numerisson.com/novaflash/
As you can see, he is able to make really beautiful flash interfaces, and he is not a newbie in SE (look at Oxytocin and Phasm, for example). I am in touch with him via the french forum, and I asked him yesterday, after receiving your kind answer, if he would like to help, and he agreed...
It is true, he does make some pretty interfaces! :-)


There is also another good SEist, Xavier Kalensky, alias KX77free, who made some complex and amazing SE synths, adding his own modules, there :
http://kx77free.free.fr/English-page.html
Look at his Kx-Modulad and KX-Omni... I know that he would help, even if he works now on a project of a new synth to come, and he knows C++.

I do not know exactly what is possible or not, because i never tried to convince someone to develop a software further, and I am not able to do anything in programming, but I will do all I can to help, if you agree with the idea about improving Synthi AKS and vcs5...
As to the VCS5 that was just using the ARP2500 switch routing type system due to size contstraints at that time.

I'm surprised that not too many people had come up with a proper EMS type oscillator. The secret is in Jeff's Phase Distortion Oscillator which gives the true duty cycle but sadly only at audio frequencies!

For example, you said : " As to the stability, if it's the AKS, most of the CPU take-up is with that damned switch array patchboard, which someone could probably reduce if there was a C++ programmer around who could build it as a specific module."
Each switch node is just a Level Adjust and the pin connect is just a graphic for switch on and off on Input 2 of that Level Adjust. If you multiply that to 8*8 that's 64 of those Level Adjusts that Synthedit is monitoring! Phew!

You are welcome to the source of those creations but as they are like the Ardennes forest, good luck unpicking them! I have no problem in releasing the source for that as most of my creations were to help Jeff display some of the things that Synthedit could do by showing examples, and to keep some of them as SE1s so that others could come along and pick the things apart and get an understanding of how it all works.

Eric Langou thinks that he can do something, and he would like to see the SE sources... Idem for the "256 event sequencer"... Would you like to colaborate with him ?
I can give him the processes involved which I remember were published in an ancient Studio Sound magazine, of the EMS Sequencer. Now it could go well beyond 256 events but just to have 256 events is like a repeat of the olden days when that sequencer just put those old 8-stage manual devices into the shadows.

Another example : it would be very useful to see number values on both synths to adjust them precisely. This improvment is very important for such sensible machines.
I still have the vernier source animations and can adjust the numbers accordingly if needed. The EMS synths used a Cermet 10-turn pot but due to constraints in (if I remember it well) Windows, that made a vertical bitmap strip which was too long, so some compressing of numbers had to happen.

Another one : the window where man can draw the lfo "curve" on vcs5 could be a bit larger and more precise...

The graphics capabilities of Synthedit have expanded much since I played with it, so that would be easily implemented.

So, we have two programmers, and i know also another man, Didier Debril, (Deb76 on our forum) who used a real Synthi A during more than ten years, and I am waiting for his remarks about your synths... I know that he was impressed by them, and he is rather excited by the idea of some improvments... He is not a programmer, but I think that he can help for the comparision with the original thing (behaviour of controls, routing etc...), because he has a real knowledge in synthesis.

This is all what I can say today...

Tell me what you think about that...

Best regards

I admire your enthusiasm in these matters and I wish you all the best in your endeavours. I would have continued with Synthedit and may well play with it again - there is a chrome Rock distorting Minimoog that I have ready to upload but I still don't have the time for that even. My other workload has taken me to setting up my virtual aircraft industry (hence the domain name which I own of the old real British aircraft industry of the 30s and later) for the possibility of a DVD airshow of aircraft which are either now in museums or have long since been lost. This takes me to beyond 6am sometimes so I don't have time for other stuff outside my Synthedit Planes unit which has expanded far beyond the one on the site.

Some of "Suppon" Tochy's work and the sort of thing I am working towards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEuOw5yrLO4

More downloads here.
http://www.k4.dion.ne.jp/~suppon/index.htm

P.S. : these two synths were unstable on the computers available when they were made, but today, with an up-to-date computer, they work much better...

Heheheh! I do remember that pushing the AKS too much sent the CPU meter into the top end of the red but then again, if it hasn't crashed all was well. Maybe I was a little spoiled as I did use them on a dual processor Pentium III at that time.

Tu peux pas lui proposer dans ton excellent Anglais ?

Ce serait sympa que Richard Brooks rejoigne notre Dream Team non ?

La suite devrait se jouer dans la nouvelle rubrique du forum.

Est les niveaux des modulations s'additionnent tel quels, sans limiteur ?

Est-ce que Nova et Brook sont d'accords pour un éventuel open source ?

kx77free a écrit:

*ps: je ne peux pas poster des messages dans la rubrique "le coin des développeurs"

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patrice a écrit:Super... C'est quoi un oscillo tweaké ?!

kx77free a écrit:Et ce n'est pas évident que cela plaise car le son vintage n'est pas spécialement adapté à la musique électro actuelle.

kx77free a écrit:C'est sans doute la raison pour laquelle les autres devs ne le font pas...