Vember Audio Surge is now open-source

[martiu]

OK, here is the direct download link for the 28 "Landosonic" Surge patches

Thank you.

I'll check them out tomorrow when i can do loud things without waking up my family.

use your AKG headphones homie

[stoopicus]

SQ8L is dead I think. Dev is completely AWOL and yeah IIRC there was never a chance for the code to be open-sourced.

There's Arturia's which is also decent IIRC but holy shit it's way more CPU.

You know, that said, SQ-80 V really is quite good. All the old voice crystal SYSEX dumps sound just like I remember them. Way better than the (in my opinion) lackluster sampled thing UVI did with USQ-1, at any rate.

[Andreya_Autumn]

OK, here is the direct download link for the 28 "Landosonic" Surge patches (no registration required):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/190XjoS ... sp=sharing
Does the link work?
Please, by all means give me some feedback...
And I will contemplate whether I would want to join Discord... perhaps sooner or later...

Hello! We've listened to your patches. They sound quite nice ("Washing the Podium" is my fave I think) and the levels are indeed even.

Since you ask for feedback: A few of them that have residue from prior tweaking. At least I think that's what it is. I'm talking about a delay FX that's loaded, but with the Mix all the way down. Or a waveshaper with a shape selected and then disabled. That kinda thing.

If those are in fact intentional resources you intend to accompany the patch, perhaps you can set up macros for them? Like for waveshaper volume (compensating level at output) or for the delay Mix. Else, maybe you can just empty the FX slots, enable the WS but turn the shape off. Gives a cleaner slate for the user to jump off from if they wanna keep editing.

Let us know if you wanna do that. Or alternatively, if you're ok with us making those edits. If either option seems good to you, we can get these into the next point release, which is fairly likely releasing within the next month.

[UnderwaterSunlight]

Hello Andreya, thanks for evaluating my patches. I do feel comfortable with the idea of yourself adjusting these as far as seems necessary. You may gladly include them in the upcoming Surge release!

Please keep the reference to my "Landosonic" Youtube channel in the comments field in those patches...

[Andreya_Autumn]

Ok, let's do it that way then. And yeah I'll keep that link. Thanks for contributing!

[UncleWayback]

Hello, I was searching for info about controlling Surge with OSC and pleased to see this is something you've freshly implemented! Great work and thanks so much! (I'm fiddling around with my Linnstrument and this would open a few doors to maybe running headless on a raspberry pi or something, with patch editing probably still done via gui but some more performance-orientated stuff (including the all important preset switching) perhaps accessible in a more bespoke/user-callibrated fashion.)

Anyway, is there any discussion on this front in this thread? I went back a few pages but couldn't see anything.

Is it still beta/pre-release, the OSC integration? If so I suppose I would have to try compiling/building myself... if anyone can confirm/clarify that would be great! (i.e. does the code currently available on github permit OSC integration, and/or is there a ready built binary available? (I'm on Linux, but still not very experienced with building and such.))

[baconpaul]

Hi!

Well first it’s pre release but probably becomes release on Friday if we stay on track so the nightky is what we will ship. No more osc issues to resolve before we release.

There’s always a nightky available including for Linux x86_64 but if you want Linux arm you need to self build

Best way to learn about this stuff is our discord. Most of us are either inactive or very low activity on kvr. If you are running surge there’s a link to our discord on the about screen

[UncleWayback]

Thanks very much, I shall wait for the full release as no mad rush, and try to join you all on discord at some point when I'm getting into trying to do something with the OSC integration. Cheers for making such a great and open synth!

[EvilDragon]

We released Surge XT 1.3.0 on December 8, 2023. This release contains a wide variety of performance-focused enhancements, new effects, expanded DSP, and many bug fixes and small improvements.

You can now gain complete control of the synth using OSC, use MIDI Program Changes to load patches (except in VST3), and have access to a command-line only version of the synth for embedded and headless applications. The new effect, Bonsai, is an exciting tape and saturation model. Expanded ring modulation options in the mixer allow for a myriad of growls, squeals, boosts, and signal combinations. The expanded Tuning Editor gives a variety of realtime visualizations for your scales and tunings. Plus, we have added some new patches and modulator presets. And these are just the headlines! You can always see the full change set in our changelog.

As always, please feel free to share any problems you experience on our Discord or GitHub, and we hope you enjoy making music with Surge XT!

[mabian]

This is awesome, and it's getting better and better, thanks a lot

I have a question about something that I think has been requested already, and if I remember well it has been scheduled for XT2 though I think it's quite an important missing functionality IMO - unless I'm missing something of course... currently you can't define pan separately for every oscillator, right? I think XT2 is not quite behind the corner, so we will have to wait for the feature to be available, confirmed?

- Mario

[EvilDragon]

Correct, that is slated for XT2, as it's a very deep change. XT2 is practically gonna end up a half-rewrite, anyways.

[tonycore]

Thank you to the team! I'm particularly happy about MIDI program changes. But everyone's work here is tremendous.

[HOTF]

1.3 out : https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/changelog/

oops looks like im late to the party

[Danilo Villanova]

The beast is back! Thanks a lot for this magnificent instrument.

[LFO8]

Very happy seeing this activity in development! I like Surge’s sound pallet a lot. I am hoping for a full screen preset browser on the next release.