Awesome!jinxtigr wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 11:47 pm I can also add, as someone with a bunch of code in Surge (I revised my VST builds specifically to make it easier for baconpaul to import anything he likes, and I hang out with the Surge folks, they're my favorite music devs)
Feel free to experiment with the Airwindows stuff existing in Surge as part of the sound design. The Surge folks liked Galactic lots, which made me very happy, but there's plenty else and some of it is not what you typically see in effects. The Surge folks asked me nicely first before beginning to import stuff: saying, "you're using an MIT license. This would mean we are able to use anything we want, and we might use a lot. Are you sure you're okay with that?"
Of course I was, that's why I'd chosen that license (compatible with their GPL, too). In turn, Surge's needs as a project are very much that if you make your OWN fork of Surge, it has to honor the license. But making preset banks? That doesn't hurt the GPL license any more than you making a bunch of music using the synth. (or my plugins)
I feel like the community approach is a separate thing. I've got the occasional super-huge celebrity name using my stuff, not wishing to be outed, treating it as a 'secret weapon'. That's fine. It doesn't help me or any 'community', but there are those who work with their fellow musicians differently. Takes all kinds. I feel like community oriented folks can come up with their own energy and do their own, free, show-your-work presets and patches by which everyone can learn a little and it can be all cooperative.
But patches can be nearly as complicated as songs. When you get into the full range of it, even though I'm not aware of hiding what's inside a patch (doesn't it just show what you did, on the synth?) opportunity arises for someone with really good taste and a really good ear to curate a set of patches and sell 'em (or at least first access to them). I would even say it'd be damn rude to pirate such a package since there's plenty of free patches available. Let the person with the ear, who's trying to put in the work and curate something really special, do it the way he wants.
If I did such a preset bank it'd probably lean on deeper analog tones and more direct voices, it'd all sound pretty consistently 'Airwindows', and I wouldn't charge a dime… because I'm Patreon-supported, so I never do. And if people wanted more, they could ask. That's really the trick: will people want it so much they would pay?
I think it sounds nice, but it is a bit limited. Plus, the included presets were really solid too. Not much to improve on there imo. 
But thanks for consideration!
