KV331 Audio

Cyforce · Post by **Cyforce** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 8:03 pm

Short suggestion for this online-libary/overview of the presets...

Would it be not cool, if there would be to every preset a mini-preview(mp3) for example one note over 1-2 bars?
Basses everytime on c2, pads on c3, plucks on c4 you know?

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 8:12 pm

Cyforce wrote:Short suggestion for this online-libary/overview of the presets...

Would it be not cool, if there would be to every preset a mini-preview(mp3) for example one note over 1-2 bars?
Basses everytime on c2, pads on c3, plucks on c4 you know?

Why would you need previews? For paid "pro" presets?

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 7:42 am

Well, I finally got the thing working in SynthMaster

Now here's the flow I'm gonna implement:

On the browser page, I'm gonna add two buttons: Online & Local.

By default Local is selected. When user clicks on Online, SM connects to the web service and downloads the online presets list. SM also filters the list so that only presets that dont exist on the user's local machine are displayed.

When the user clicks on an online preset SM downloads it and saves under presets folder.

I can also put a Sync button that downloads all online presets.

bobbybland · Post by **bobbybland** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 7:53 am

Sounds like a smart addon,good stuff.

Now I'm excused to not even dig for sounds,they will already be right there!!

keep up the great work

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 8:04 am

bobbybland wrote:Sounds like a smart addon,good stuff. Now I'm excused to not even dig for sounds,they will already be right there!! keep up the great work

I hope this feature will just encourage people to share their sounds

bobbybland · Post by **bobbybland** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 8:11 am

Oh and so am i

btw what's considered FALL? I'm about to have a nervous breakdown after I heard those new filters,and saw the new skins.2.5 is gonna smash,please say septemberish..

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 8:13 am

bobbybland wrote:Oh and so am i btw what's considered FALL? I'm about to have a nervous breakdown after I heard those new filters,and saw the new skins.2.5 is gonna smash,please say septemberish..

Yes, September is the month of the official release.

EDIT: In 2 weeks I have to finalize the feature set, and also we can have at least one skin ready. At that time we can release the official "beta"

This weekend I'll make a crossplatform alpha9 release!

Cyforce · Post by **Cyforce** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 9:03 am

kv331 wrote:
Cyforce wrote:Short suggestion for this online-libary/overview of the presets...

Would it be not cool, if there would be to every preset a mini-preview(mp3) for example one note over 1-2 bars?
Basses everytime on c2, pads on c3, plucks on c4 you know?
Why would you need previews? For paid "pro" presets?

I think i missunderstand the topic, i have thinked it was meaned like the online-soundbrowser like camel-audio/alchemy.

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 9:17 am

Cyforce wrote:
I think i missunderstand the topic, i have thinked it was meaned like the online-soundbrowser like camel-audio/alchemy.

This is right inside the plug-in

I dont want to put extra burden on the user by requiring to login to my web site, navigate to the preset browser page, download presets, install presets, etc

It can be done right inside the plug-in and that's how I implemented it

TheSteven · Post by **TheSteven** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 10:34 am

Sounds like a cool idea.

My concerns would be that we would end up being overwhelmed with tons of patches with only minor variations - like what happened to a lot of DX7 libraries. So a user rating system and the ability to filter based on ratings would be highly valuable.

Also you might want to consider implementing a way so that sound designers could protect their works and prevent them from being uploaded (or modified then uploaded) to the online library. Maybe a flag within the patch that would indicate that it was protected content.

...Steven

S-N-S · Post by **S-N-S** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 10:38 am

well let it be a user definable option,not all have their music computers on the internet

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 12:10 pm

S-N-S wrote:well let it be a user definable option,not all have their music computers on the internet

Of course it'll be like that.

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 12:13 pm

TheSteven wrote:Sounds like a cool idea.

My concerns would be that we would end up being overwhelmed with tons of patches with only minor variations - like what happened to a lot of DX7 libraries. So a user rating system and the ability to filter based on ratings would be highly valuable.

+1

TheSteven wrote: Also you might want to consider implementing a way so that sound designers could protect their works and prevent them from being uploaded (or modified then uploaded) to the online library. Maybe a flag within the patch that would indicate that it was protected content.

...Steven

Yes that makes sense. So protected patches can not be uploaded for instance.

TheSteven · Post by **TheSteven** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 12:28 pm

kv331 wrote:
TheSteven wrote: Also you might want to consider implementing a way so that sound designers could protect their works and prevent them from being uploaded (or modified then uploaded) to the online library. Maybe a flag within the patch that would indicate that it was protected content.

...Steven
Yes that makes sense. So protected patches can not be uploaded for instance.

Exactly. Don't want sound designers avoiding this synth because they're afraid someone will upload their work to the online library making it instant freeware.

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 12:55 pm

TheSteven wrote: Exactly. Don't want sound designers avoiding this synth because they're afraid someone will upload their work to the online library making it instant freeware.

No worries. We'll figure out a "process" that's a win-win for everyone

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Online Preset Browser in SynthMaster 2.5, what do you think?