Vember Audio Surge is now open-source

[baconpaul]

@future-bit you remove that message by installing the lato font. Without it surge won’t render properly. Unfortunately there is no way to load fonts into vstgui by path on windows so fonts can’t participate in the portable install.

[baconpaul]

@future-bit I suppose in 181 we could make that a one-time-only message though. Let me add that to our issue list. Then you will get it once, and if you ignore it, surge will just mis-render.

https://github.com/surge-synthesizer/surge/issues/3654

Will sweep that into the point release.

[mabian]

Is the skin fix already in the nightly and is the nightly mostly similar to the current release?

Thanks,
Mario

[Teksonik]

Thanks for the latest build.

On the subject of skins how does one edit them to personal taste ? Not having any luck here although I've done it for many other plugins.

[baconpaul]

@mabian - The fixes are not in the nightly yet.
@Teksonik - The skin manual is linked on the surge skins menu and explains how it works.

[EvilDragon]

Unfortunately there is no way to load fonts into vstgui by path on windows

...yet

[EvilDragon]

By the way, the Vel/Gain slider swap is only wrong in Classic/Dark skins, Royal Surge skin is fine.

[mabian]

By the way, the Vel/Gain slider swap is only wrong in Classic/Dark skins, Royal Surge skin is fine.

Thanks (also to baconpaul for the quick reply)

- Mario

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

This probably isn't the right place, but I'll throw it out there anyway: I wouldn't mind seeing a set of audio fx filters added to Surge's insert/send fx dropdowns. I found a patch that sounded nice and was using two notch filters on layer A, and I wanted to just filter out top end with a LPF filter in the insert path. I was surprised to see there were no filters there. Seems like it would be a nice addition to add a compliment of HP/LP filters as insert FX for things like that. They don't need keytracking or modulation or anything, just basic filters for some final shaping of the sound.

[EvilDragon]

You should use Capacitor from Airwindows effects unit, which is both a lowpass and highpass (without resonance)

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

You should use Capacitor from Airwindows effects unit, which is both a lowpass and highpass (without resonance)

Yep, I did find that one but no resonance options. Was just thinking we've got this huge compliment of filters in the filter section with resonance...would be nice to double them up in the effects section too. Anyway, no biggie at all. Just a suggestion.

[The Nerdy Music Guy]

Also, we have the monophonic keytracking modulators now, so you can even key track them and stuff

But yeah, adding the filters as an effect is "on the list" and will probably happen at some point!

[EvilDragon]

Actually, can anyone of you kind people see if the Vel>Gain and Gain sliders in Amp section are in that specific order? By default Vel>Gain should be all the way up and is unipolar (and is on the left), and Gain is bipolar and by default it's in the middle.

The code at head says it should be just fine, which means the internal bug report we had is a false alarm. But 1.8.1 might still happen

[EvilDragon]

Yep, I did find that one but no resonance options. Was just thinking we've got this huge compliment of filters in the filter section with resonance...would be nice to double them up in the effects section too. Anyway, no biggie at all. Just a suggestion.

We do already have an issue to have filters as FX unit. Should hopefully happen in 1.9.

[The Nerdy Music Guy]

Just a basic wavetable pad to celebrate the release

https://soundcloud.com/user-589036812-2 ... -1-x-surge