Hey,

I have tons of instruments I'd like to present. Really, a shame that they are hidden on my HDD On the other hand, I really miss professional sounds. My idea was to make a wiki, instead of just uploading the songs. Some reasons/ideas for a wiki:

• A detailed description:
  
  • What steps did you use to get this sound from the default preset?
    
  • What do each of the steps do?
    
  • What optional effects might be applied to this sound?
• References: In which genres/songs can I find this sound?
  
• A one click player for testing the sound (starts zynaddsubfx)
  
• A one click player to start an LMMS demo (or maybe a WAV file)
  
• Social aspects
  
  • like-button
    
  • favorite-button
    
  • feedback possibility
    
  • (donate button)

I thinks this could increase productivity with Zyn a lot. Does someone agree? I could make one on my own, but I think it should actually be hosted "official"...

Kind regards,
Johannes

PS.: Sorry if that should already exist I found nothing...

There used to be an instance running on sf.net when Harald Hvaal was active.
I did not see much usage of it overall and something on the sf site made it horrifically slow (my guess is between mysql performance or php execution speed).
Oh, and there was spam EVERYWHERE.

The demoboard of patches does strike me as an interesting idea overall.
I personally don't care much for the social/wiki aspects, but that could be attributed to taste and some past experience.

PS Don't forget to get me that C++ patch before spreading yourself too thin :p

How about creating a manual to ZynAdd on that Wiki then? I'm pretty sure many people are literally overwhelmed (like me) when they open ZynAdd for the first time, and can't figure out how to get a damn tone out of it. It's just that complex that it desperately needs a good manual imo, the one on the dev's website is just not good enough as it doesn't really cover much of the synth's capabilities, and it's pretty much an engineers work to handle it.

I also don't see the social aspects that useful, though they could help finding the "best" sounds. (btw: The exams currently rob my weekend but in the next weeks I'll have way more time for C++)

A wiki does not need to be restricted to some example sounds. I agree, a general manual would be awesome. However, my post was more about the problem of closed source in music. There's a cool song, and you want to get exactly that sound with Zyn. But even if you know where to find what in Zyn, it seems hard to know how to create that sound you like...

You're right. There could be more tutorials on how to create specific sounds for sure.

Are y'all implying that there is some other way to patch Zyn besides "poke at it till ya like it"?

... and more to the point, when you hear something that sounds good, save it immediately!!

Precisely why I haven't just zipped up all my patches and posted them - I have hundreds of those intermediate results and serendipitous discoveries scattered throughout my collection, and I need to either filter them out or at least give them more meaningful names.