Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] WhySynth DSSI softsynth

2005-10-28 Thread Lars Luthman
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 18:35 -0600, Garett Shulman wrote: > WOW. Whysynth is very cool. For subtractive synthesis on linux it seems > very frugal on cpu cycles. Nice. I haven't fooled much with the other > osciliator types but look forward to. I followed the suggestion (I think > :) ) at the bot

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] WhySynth DSSI softsynth

2005-10-28 Thread Garett Shulman
WOW. Whysynth is very cool. For subtractive synthesis on linux it seems very frugal on cpu cycles. Nice. I haven't fooled much with the other osciliator types but look forward to. I followed the suggestion (I think :) ) at the bottum of this email regarding assigning various midi controllers t

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] WhySynth DSSI softsynth

2005-10-10 Thread Sean Bolton
On Oct 9, 2005, at 11:18 AM, Jens M Andreasen wrote: Let Bolton speak for himself, please. Gentlemen please ... Bolton speaks for himself, thusly: On Oct 8, 2005, at 10:30 PM, Jens M Andreasen wrote: Whoaa! Some really impressive specs. Are you trying to corner the market as in "the only sof

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] WhySynth DSSI softsynth

2005-10-09 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 13:22 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 19:01 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 16:59 +0200, Lars Luthman wrote: > > > > > > I reckon this as 'no' > > > > > > Why? > > > > > > jack-dssi-host whysynth.so > > > > > > ...and you will h

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] WhySynth DSSI softsynth

2005-10-09 Thread Paul Davis
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 19:01 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: > On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 16:59 +0200, Lars Luthman wrote: > > > > I reckon this as 'no' > > > > Why? > > > > jack-dssi-host whysynth.so > > > > ...and you will have a stand-alone process with an ALSA MIDI port and > > JACK audio outpu

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] WhySynth DSSI softsynth

2005-10-09 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 16:59 +0200, Lars Luthman wrote: > > I reckon this as 'no' > > Why? > > jack-dssi-host whysynth.so > > ...and you will have a stand-alone process with an ALSA MIDI port and > JACK audio output that will quit when you close the WhySynth GUI > window. OK OK, I buy that

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] WhySynth DSSI softsynth

2005-10-09 Thread Steve Harris
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 05:45:33PM +0200, derek holzer wrote: > Very nice, hours of fun in there to be sure. But how can you handle MIDI > bindings? For example, to control one of the filter resonance knobs > rather than just the MIDI note/pitchwheel in? Plugins can specify default CC and NRPN b

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] WhySynth DSSI softsynth

2005-10-09 Thread Lars Luthman
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 17:45 +0200, derek holzer wrote: > Very nice, hours of fun in there to be sure. But how can you handle MIDI > bindings? For example, to control one of the filter resonance knobs > rather than just the MIDI note/pitchwheel in? DSSI plugins map MIDI CCs to control inputs (or

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] WhySynth DSSI softsynth

2005-10-09 Thread derek holzer
Very nice, hours of fun in there to be sure. But how can you handle MIDI bindings? For example, to control one of the filter resonance knobs rather than just the MIDI note/pitchwheel in? d. -- derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl ---Oblique Strategy # 124: "Once the search is in progress, som

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] WhySynth DSSI softsynth

2005-10-09 Thread Chris Cannam
On Sunday 09 Oct 2005 15:59, Lars Luthman wrote: > jack-dssi-host whysynth.so Simpler still, start with this (or make the synth's installer do this): # ln -s jack-dssi-host /usr/bin/whysynth Then you can just run $ whysynth for the same thing (a standalone GUI program with ALSA sequencer

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] WhySynth DSSI softsynth

2005-10-09 Thread Lars Luthman
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 16:40 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: > On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 14:44 +0100, James McDermott wrote: > > On 10/9/05, Jens M Andreasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Can it run 'stand alone'? > > > > There are two fairly minimal DSSI hosts, ghostess and jack-dssi-host, > >

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] WhySynth DSSI softsynth

2005-10-09 Thread Jens M Andreasen
I reckon this as 'no' On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 14:44 +0100, James McDermott wrote: > On 10/9/05, Jens M Andreasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can it run 'stand alone'? > > There are two fairly minimal DSSI hosts, ghostess and jack-dssi-host, > which receive MIDI and output to Jack, so the stan

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] WhySynth DSSI softsynth

2005-10-09 Thread James McDermott
On 10/9/05, Jens M Andreasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can it run 'stand alone'? There are two fairly minimal DSSI hosts, ghostess and jack-dssi-host, which receive MIDI and output to Jack, so the stand-alone feature always comes for free... James

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] WhySynth DSSI softsynth

2005-10-09 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 16:05 -0700, Sean Bolton wrote: > WhySynth, as in (I sometimes ask), "_why_ am I working on another > softsynth instead of on paying gigs?" (Following my bliss? > Addiction? One last shot at misspent youth?) Heh :) Once you have done one, you are addicted. This is not nesc

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] WhySynth DSSI softsynth

2005-10-08 Thread Jens M Andreasen
Whoaa! Some really impressive specs. Are you trying to corner the market as in "the only soffsynth you'll ever, ever need!!" :) Can it run 'stand alone'? Do you have some rough statistics on number of voices/gigahertz? /jens On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 16:05 -0700, Sean Bolton wrote: > Introducing Wh

[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] WhySynth DSSI softsynth

2005-10-05 Thread Sean Bolton
Introducing WhySynth, a DSSI softsynth plugin. WhySynth, as in 'Y'-synth, the super-sized, frankensteinized, evolved and mutated, still rather dorky younger sibling of Xsynth-DSSI. WhySynth, as in (I sometimes ask), "_why_ am I working on another softsynth instead of on paying gigs?" (Following