Now in the theatre: Snapshots revisited

[Dag2pauwoog]

Hi,

Really, I'm pleased that my suggestion to make snapshots possible made it into the "things-to-do" list. Feels like being part of a developers-team, only did I not know I was that talented! I also thought about morphing between snapshots, but thought this would be too much for that time, but now see this crossfade option in "things-to-do" list. Ok. sounds like the same thing to me.

But my next question to me is then: could there be more then one way to trigger a crossfade or morph between two snapshots? Does it need to go the complete length or could you do it gradually and stop the crossfade at some point with for instance a slider asigned as a modwheel? Or could the crossfade be synced to the BPM of a song? Could there be more then one crossfade curve? For instance linear, or a sinus-shape, or logarithmic. Could the shape which a crossfade takes be different for each and every slider or xy-pad? For the waldorf XT synthesizer, for instance, I know that some parameters behave in a linear fashion, others logarithmecally. Something like attack-time logarithmcally, and velocity linear (just as an example, I am not sure about these ones). It would be nice if this software could emulate this same behaviour. To make some bottom-lines:

FR #1: Crossfades following BPM of a song.
FR #2: Crossfades triggered by modwheel-slider. Modwheel dictates tempo and length of crossfade.
FR #3: Different crossfade shapes, definable at slider or xy-pad level.

I read a review somewhere here at KVR describing a software synthesizer having those features, so I think this should be possible. Glad though that I don't have to program all that!

Keep the good spirit,

Alwin.

[Dag2pauwoog]

I felt I could be more specific about the morphing feature using a modwheel. I mentioned another review of a softsynth. This softsynth is the Discovery from DiscoDSP. The following excerpt from a review describes the morphing feature:

As mentioned in the GUI section , the morphing feature is thing that makes this synth really stand out. Without it, Discovery would be an excellent VA synth. With morphing, this synth moves to a whole new level. Each and every knob can have two settings applied. One main setting and a second "ghost" setting. You can then morph between these using the mod wheel or (my favourite) velocity. Since you can set the synth to ignore velocity on the VCA (ie no volume changes no matter what the note velo) this feature makes this synth come alive. Imagine filter cutoff, resonance, envelope level, oscillator sync depth and vibrato lfo amount all varying with velocity. Set up a sequence in your host, then play around with those little velocity bars underneath the piano roll that you normally just set flat (or ignore) and you can achieve some incredibly complex effects.

See if you like it

[ohm]

Thanks for the comments - Just to let you know that I'm in LiveSlice mode again today - version 1.3 is almost ready, so I'll comment on your ideas tomorrow