KVR Audio

John [Humanoid Sound Sys] · Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:33 pm

Hello everyone,

I'm the developer of Scanned Synth VST. I've not been at my PC all weekend so I'm just now getting a chance to read through all the feedback I've been getting. Thanks for this everyone, I really appreciate it.

I will have a look at the problems that people are having in FLStudio. I haven't actually tested it in FL yet so I'll need to download the demo version. I'm afaraid development is quite slow at the moment as I have quite a few other committments but I will do my best to answer people's queries and provide reasonably frequent updates.

What does "bump" mean?

John.

gold · Post by **gold** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:49 pm

"To bump a thread on an internet forum is to post a reply in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads."

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:57 pm

Welcome John!

Thanks for this wicked thing.
Are there any chances it could be optimized a bit?
I mean, ok, I don't have that much of a powerful machine (I'm going all mobile, currently using a Pentium M 1.86), but it's not all that weak either, and scanned synth certainly can't be used in realtime (along other things that is) on this machine. Yeah, sure, still a kickass source to create some samples, but it'd be just great if one could use it in an actual song as well.

Oh well, a GUI wouldn't be the worst thing to have either. You can find some great UI designers around these parts, and most likely it won't even cost you a dime.

Ben [Camel Audio] · Post by **Ben [Camel Audio]** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:34 pm

Oh well, a GUI wouldn't be the worst thing to have either. You can find some great UI designers around these parts, and most likely it won't even cost you a dime.

I guess you could just place all the controls out without any particular regard to their function, but surely it would be better to hone the parameter set down/find meaning and relationships between the parameters. When John asked me about it 6 months or so back, that was my advice - to find some sound designers who could figure it out, and provide feedback on how to develop the parameter set/GUI. Has anyone managed to program a sound with it yet, rather than just hitting the random button a lot?

Thanks
Ben

Sickle · Post by **Sickle** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:01 pm

Ben [Camel Audio] wrote:Has anyone managed to program a sound with it yet, rather than just hitting the random button a lot?

This is problematic as there's over a hundred parameters to access. A signal flow chart would help a great deal, I'd imagine.

I'm working on finding a GUI designer.

John [Humanoid Sound Sys] · Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:06 pm

Sickle wrote:This is problematic as there's over a hundred parameters to access. A signal flow chart would help a great deal, I'd imagine.

That's a good idea. I'll add one to the site.

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:11 pm

If you need any help with docs I do copyreading, LaTeX coding, publication graphics (original or clean-up), and the like.

mistertoast · Post by **mistertoast** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:15 pm

From my reading of the news item, I gathered that the real fun starts when you control a few of the parameters real-time. So---any idea which parameters are most useful to tweak real time? I get the feeling we're missing the boat on this synth. Most of the everything I tried sounded like a bubbly game machine. I have the feeling this synth can probably do more straight-up sounds with real-time control of timbre. I just don't know where to start.

John [Humanoid Sound Sys] · Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:22 pm

mistertoast wrote:I just don't know where to start.

I could replace one of the existing presets with a "vanilla" setting with all modulation and that sort of thing turned off. Would that be useful?

mistertoast · Post by **mistertoast** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:26 pm

>>I could replace one of the existing presets with a "vanilla" setting with all modulation and that sort of thing turned off. Would that be useful?

Yes!

AdmiralQuality · Post by **AdmiralQuality** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:49 pm

Interesting!!! A lot of aliasing though. Very DX sounding. How are you interpolating the 128 sample dynamic wave table? Is 128 samples enough?

Thanks for this John! Hope you can find time to keep at it, you just might be on to something.

John [Humanoid Sound Sys] · Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:58 pm

AdmiralQuality wrote:Interesting!!! A lot of aliasing though. Very DX sounding. How are you interpolating the 128 sample dynamic wave table? Is 128 samples enough?

I tried increasing the table size but it was just too slow. I also tried implementing an oversampling filter but that also really taxed the processor so I'm using cubic interpolation instead.

John [Humanoid Sound Sys] · Mon Mar 13, 2006 4:13 pm

I'm off now. I might not be back until tomorrow.