I'm not expecting rapid results but hopefully some/most will appear in a v5.x.x update?After Andreas' exceptional help in creating some Mux presets upon my request, I've come up with this list of features I'd like to see added to the Mux to allow more control.
It's possible that some are already in the wishlist or may be currently possible and the module requests may be submitted by Andreas at some point, but I just wanted to add all of them as it then adds to the number of users requests, ie popularity of a particular FR.
If anyone likes a particular FR(s) below it may be a good idea to post that number(s) as a +1 so Jo can get an idea of the popularity of these FR's.
Perhaps not all are good ideas but they're things I'd like to see and I think would make the Mux much more configurable. If I think of any more I'll add them to this post.
MUX Requests:
1. Buttons for on/off switching of parameters, even knobs so you can designate a certain instant on to a certain percentage/value.
2. Ability to create a front panel knob/button and assign to any parameter within a Mux/VST even if it has no knob and is only an adjustable value. For example: LFO wave type.
3. Resizable knobs + buttons. The current buttons are re-sizable but the 'new' buttons above should be too.
4. Change text colours for buttons, knobs and header.
5. Add module for even harmonic distortion, I believe that's what Andreas said when discussing the Distortion Module, currently there isn't one.
6. Add necessary module(s) to create Lo-Fi FX. I don't just mean Bit Reduction but genuine Lo-Fidelity equipment. The only thing I've ever come across that could do this was Rolands SP-808 sampler and it was a great sounding effect.
7. Add a Parent/Child setup for Synth/FX so the Synth/FX can have presets without resorting to having long lists of the same Mux setups of the same Synth/FX with different 'patches' saved.
8. Allow buttons to have two or more selectable preset states, for example:
a. OscEdit/Properties/StartPhase could have two states - 0 and Random.
b. switch between different Filter Types.
But rather than a button being confined like the Knobs are to the parameter 'display' Have something like 'LED's' to indicate which Filter Type is selected.
9. Add sequencing into the Mux where buttons or keyboard could control On/Off state of steps perhaps, as well as notes. I know this is on the wishlist and you yourself want this one Jo, or at least the sequencing bit, I just added it as a +1 with a bit of 'how to' detail.
10. Multitimbrality. Add maybe a limit of just 3 or 4 parts, more preferably, to a Mux to allow layering of a sequence, or creating standalone groovebox. Very useful for the standalone Mux, maybe not so for MuLab's Mux. Would like to see it added to MuLab though as some of us prefer working this way. Again, just a +1.
11. When a module is disabled the 'button' added to the front panel is greyed out, but I'd also like the knobs/meta param's for that module to be greyed out as well.
12. Add ability to assign H/ware controller button to enable/disable module.
13. In order to make the front panel more 'condensed' and stop it getting to large while adding more function, I'd like buttons to 'swap' between parameters. For example: Suppose you design a synth with 7FX, all the knobs required for quick control are going to take a lot of space. But if a button could switch between the types of FX and the functions the knobs control, you'd need a whole lot less space.
Or, Several Osc's. Rather than having a load of knobs for each Osc each set performing the same functions, have just one set for them all with a button/LED configuration to switch between them.
14. A few additional parameters for the synth:
a. Monosynth, in case the terminology's wrong, I want one note playable at a time. With the second note cancelling the first. Apparently this isn't possible yet?
b. Osc sync, cross modulation, unison, VPM(Variable Phase Modulation)
c. Add ability to Modulate the waveforms themselves via LFO's.
15. Knob improvements:
a. Allow all knobs to be renamed, not just the Meta-Parameters.
b. Asymmetric adjustments of knobs. The best way to describe is by example. On the Korg Electribes there's a Pitch Offset knob which has a centre value of '0' and a -ve value of 1 octave and a +ve value of 4 octaves. I'd like to emulate that behaviour.
c. Add start and end points to define when a knob 'Starts' to take effect and when its range 'Ends.' EG: Imagine combining two knobs to a Meta-Param, call them simply A and B. Knob A works as normal, but I don't want knob B to start taking effect til knob A is at say 45% and when knob A reaches say 70% knob B stops. Knob B will of course still have its current value range setting applied. There may be a better way of implementing this, but this is the best a modest novice can come up with.
16. Mux Group Frames.
I'd like to be able to have a Group Frame laid on top of another Group Frame. If you look at Rainmeter, you see that anything you add can have a 'Position' setting. Basically this means if it's shown lowest, ie on desktop, bottom, normal, topmost, stay on top.
I'd like to have say an Osc Group Frame and allow other Group Frames to be added but stay on top of the main one. This could allow groups within groups and each could still have it's own size and colour etc. Not sure how far you would want this to go but probably 3 positions would be more than sufficient. So you could have one main Group with Osc, Filter, Amp Groups, and say Osc might have another Group for a Sample section or whatever.
17. Group select.
Not sure if this is possible can't find it anywhere. But when moving stuff on the Front Panel and Deep Editor sometimes I need to move several items but can't do so all at once. Instead I'm having to move one at a time, so some way of selecting several items at once then dragging them as a group would be great help.
Thanks for reading
Scott
