If you made a new GUI for ZynAddSubFX with one window, I'd be dancing on the floor the whole week... It's a great synth with a lot of potential (especially the PADsynth) but the workflow with all these windows and the Windows 95 look is terrible...Urs wrote:I never found steeper slopes to be overly useful. However, you can route filter 1 into filter 2. That creates a lot of potential.Tricky-Loops wrote:I'm thinking of creative filters like formant/vocal filters or comb filters (they would fit great to the "Hive" sound quality!). I don't think that there should be steeper slopes like 48 or 96 dB (nobody is using them, except surgeons), just some different filter types to add different flavors.
As for formant/vocal and comb filters - if we do these then as part of waveforms / synthesis methods added to the oscillator section.
In the grand scheme I think Hive would be very suited for some sort of pad synthesis. In fact I've experimented a lot with the infamous PADsynth algorithm by Nasca Octavian Paul. I just haven't found a sufficient way to keep memory and CPU down while maintaining a no-brainer interface. Experiments with realtime synthesis were great, but not yet fully convincing.
But hands up for (the idea of) integrating a pad synthesis into Hive!
Enjoy!
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It is pretty good the way it is already. Reasonable limitations are productive as sound programming takes less time, so there is more time for actually using that thing in one's music. 
