Oatmeal (mediocre free VSTi) - 37-4 (fixed Renoise problem)

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... the www.fileodge.comXXXX
data isn't downloadable here ...

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anyhow, thanks alot fußpilz !

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perhaps they had a little downtime for maintenance cause the links do work for me now. try again ;)
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Just wanted to jump on and say that your oatmeal synth is nasty :shock: great job . . . sounds great and even like the original skin - keep up the great work -
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Just bringing this to the front. I've made another bank myself and have put all current banks into one convenient .zip file, but File Lodge is doing something or other to their servers just now, so i'll update this when they've finished that. :tu:
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If someone finds this useful, all the GUIs i found in this topic can be downloaded here, in the same pack. If people ( thanks to you !) who did them don't like this, tell me and i will destroy the link.

http://lesitedeburnie.free.fr/oatmealskins.rar
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Great idea, Burnie. I'm just a user not a dev or anything for OATMEAL, so hopefully it's okay with everyone who has contributed. Maybe someone can start a new thread with the downloads continually listed on the first page? I'm just too busy at work for the next 2 weeks to be able to spare any time for it. Downloads = gui's, patchbanks, mp3's, and code updates - all at the toop of the first page so we don't have to scroll all over 45+ pages (this week.)

It's an amazing synth, isn't it? All the features blow me away. I just wish that the oscillator wave editor windows could be opened to LARRRGE SIZES, so I could get to the harmonic adjustments with a bit more finesse. The bars are so close together that it's difficult to use them with any accuracy.

This thing amazes me, that it's handcoded and free. And you can get some nasty, nasty, nasty sounds with the oscillator wave editors, 2 of them no less. :-o :-o :o :o :D :D :love: :love:

This is probably the last vst or vsti that we'll see out of Fuzzpilz. He'll get swallowed-up by some bigshot vst outfit and make a jillion bucks a year making commercial stuff for them. :hihi: You have to admit, this will look good on a resume'.

Oatmeal on a resume', Whoever thought that would be a plus? :hihi:
RogerPerrin

I'm up to my old hat tricks again.
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This is an incredible synth. Truly fantastic. I'm just blow away over the random patch generator. How is it possible to generate such esthetically appealing sounds through randomness? Technically this is amazing. It kinda reminds me of ES2 but I could be mistaken (it was a while ago I used that synth) and is definitely up there with synth1.

Some questions: How much time did you put into this plugin? For how long have you been developing software synths (not just VSTs)?

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I fully understand if you don't want to give away any information regarding this, but would you like to reveal any of the secrets behind the random generation? What do you take into consideration? Do you use any special kinds of algorithms specialized for sound generation when randomizing (I'm no VST developer myself even though I am a software developer, I'm just interested :))
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I'm playing a lot with this one, I can tell you :). Thank you a million times for all your hard work.

//Tomas
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Looking at the dates on some files I have lying around, it seems I wrote my first crappy synth in 2002, which sounds about right. Oatmeal itself has been in the works for maybe a year, but with some very long breaks - I doubt there's more than two weeks, three at the outside, in it. Thanks again for the kind words, I continue to be befuddled by the reaction. :)
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Metanol wrote:
audiojunkie wrote:I'd have never looked at the synth with a gui like that. No offense. I don't have time to play around with stuff. I need it as functional as possible.

However, that said, it is interesting is a "modern-art looking" kind of way.

--Sean
Oatmeals default gui is very functional. Download it if you havent done it yet. This synth is really good.
Oh, I know. I really like it. I was just commenting on what works for me. I just don't have time to play with skins like Charlie's. It is interesting, and even pretty in its own way. I just personally wouldn't use it. That was all I meant. :-)

--Sean
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Charlie wrote:
audiojunkie wrote:I'd have never looked at the synth with a gui like that. No offense. I don't have time to play around with stuff. I need it as functional as possible.

However, that said, it is interesting is a "modern-art looking" kind of way.

--Sean
:-o :oops:
Attention: Please remember that 'mondrian' is only an experimental skin for Fuzzpilz Oatmeal which ships with a normal fully functional gui in the traditional sense. I wouldn't want anyone to not even try the synth because of my crazy skin. :(
:shock:

Normal default skin:
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My crazy mondrian skin:
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:oops: Wow, I've opened a can of worms. (I tend to do this -- I apologize) I was only commenting that that skin, while interesting looking, wouldn't work for me. I am aware of the default skin. Your skin, I'm sure, is nice for some people who like the experimental type skins. (There really are a lot of people that do -- think of the Cygnus vsti.) :-) I hope I didn't offend you. I didn't mean to. :)

--Sean
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Fuzzpilz wrote:Looking at the dates on some files I have lying around, it seems I wrote my first crappy synth in 2002, which sounds about right. Oatmeal itself has been in the works for maybe a year, but with some very long breaks - I doubt there's more than two weeks, three at the outside, in it. Thanks again for the kind words, I continue to be befuddled by the reaction. :)
Well, I should add myself to the "befuddlement" and thank you as well. I really appreciate all of the work you have put into this really interesting synth. As I've been playing with it, I've found the effects a really nice add-on. My latest attempts are trying to make distorted basses, but I'm having difficulty because I don't know how to program synths very well. I just wanted to point this out, because it is seldom that a synth comes along that makes me spend any time at all with trying to program synths -- I'm a patch junkie, and prefer to use patches that other's have already made for me. :-)

Thanks again,
--Sean

P.S. Is it just me (likely), or is it really difficult to get bass sounds out of this synth? I can't seem to get much on the low end. Any chance you can beef up the ability to do bass patches? Thanks!
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I love the bass, especially with the distortion
Do not lick the fablanky
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funkadil wrote:I love the bass, especially with the distortion
Yeah, I love bass with distortion too. I'm just having a bit of difficulty in programming bass patches on Oatmeal. (Maybe it's just that I haven't figured out how to get the oscillators to oscillate slow enough or something -- I don't know.) I'm not really a sound programmer, so I'm sure I'm doing things wrong. Also, there are parts of Oatmeal that I haven't figured out -- there's a section that looks like it's for tunings or something, but I don't know exactly what it does, and that could be affecting things too. I'd like to see a little more documentation on that. :-) Overall, I'm having a lot of fun with this synth.

--Sean
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audiojunkie wrote:
funkadil wrote:I love the bass, especially with the distortion
Yeah, I love bass with distortion too. I'm just having a bit of difficulty in programming bass patches on Oatmeal. (Maybe it's just that I haven't figured out how to get the oscillators to oscillate slow enough or something -- I don't know.) I'm not really a sound programmer, so I'm sure I'm doing things wrong. Also, there are parts of Oatmeal that I haven't figured out -- there's a section that looks like it's for tunings or something, but I don't know exactly what it does, and that could be affecting things too. I'd like to see a little more documentation on that. :-) Overall, I'm having a lot of fun with this synth.

--Sean
Yeah - without EQ, Oatmeal's oscillators and filters don't particularly lend themselves to bass for some reason. Don't know why, but there just aren't enough low frequencies in there for some reason - probably the reason that it hasn't been impressing people like BONES and Kriminal, who must test for basses before trying for leads and pads, which is what Oatmeal is most suited to!

EQ fixes everything, as always, though :P although Oatmeals on-board EQ isn't very intuitive/ergonomic (non-graphical, non-slider, non-graphical variable frequency/slope), so I generally would just suggest you use something else for bass in general.
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attack envelope can't hit shorter than 20ms: that's part of the problem for basses. Still possible but takes some work. There is some untapped potential in this synth though. It is much deeper than the randomizer :lol: Some more modulation might help with the bass, too (FM?). A "sweet" sounding synth, if you will. Stick to Polyiblit/killerz for basses :lol: :)
..what goes around comes around..
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