Swayed v1.0.3 - available now!

[EvilDragon]

Improved: Filter CPU usage

Just because I'm morbidly curious: what exactly was causing extra CPU here?

[glokraw]

@ Caesarg86
'Honestly, SWAYED just came out and there haven’t been many issues overall'

I'm often amazed how new instruments arrive in working order with lots of enjoyable sounds, yet many focus on everything but recording new music with what's at hand.
If I'm lucky, now that Uncle Sam has gotten his cut of the action, I can toss a coin, heads for buying Diva, tails for buying Swayed. Win or win

[tumface]

I'm often amazed how new instruments arrive in working order with lots of enjoyable sounds, yet many focus on everything but recording new music whith what's at hand.

It did not work for me for more than a few minutes before triggering a bug that made the output go silent. It was not usable. I was able to reproduce it and give the reproduction steps to the author, and he fixed it right away, and now it's not a problem anymore. Trying to ignore it would have been a mistake.

[simmo75]

Can you import your own samples?

[sheaf]

Just because I'm morbidly curious: what exactly was causing extra CPU here?

Unnecessary envelope evaluation in LFO mode.

Can you import your own samples?

No, not yet in this version.

[sonictv]

I've tried importing SY77 factory patches by loading a Txx-converted SYX file, but the waveform #'s won't load. I believe the Txx files were intended for SY99, as I've downloaded them here: http://www.bjoern.com/download/factory.zip

Looking forward to 99-compatible fixes.

Yeah, I get some issues too with those files. I'll have to investigate it.

How about recreating waveforms for the missing ones from SY99 just as you did for the SY77, rather than just mapping everything to triangle wave?

The juice is not worth the squeeze for such a huge undertaking I think. If I remember correctly the SY99 has around 160 additional waveforms. It would take me a very long time to recreate them.

Just take your time for them. No rushes.

[soundman007]

How about recreating waveforms for the missing ones from SY99 just as you did for the SY77, rather than just mapping everything to triangle wave?

The juice is not worth the squeeze for such a huge undertaking I think. If I remember correctly the SY99 has around 160 additional waveforms. It would take me a very long time to recreate them.

I understand, so how about another way of working. If we know what a missing waveform is for a particular preset of SY99 then surely among the more that 200 hundred waveforms which you already have there will often be something considerably closer to it than just a triangle wave. So why not use that?

[sheaf]

I understand, so how about another way of working. If we know what a missing waveform is for a particular preset of SY99 then surely among the more that 200 hundred waveforms which you already have there will often be something considerably closer to it than just a triangle wave. So why not use that?

Yeah, I suppose that would be an improvement.

The triangle wave was just a consequence of how the SysEx works. SY99 SysEx patches consist of 2 commands. First there is a command that sends a regular SY77 voice that has a triangle waveform if it uses a waveform that doesn't exist in the SY99. The second command is a SY99 only command that updates the waveform to the correct one, and also adds the parameters for the SY99 effects. This way the SY77 can still load SY99 patches. They simply ignore the second command.

But there is no reason why I should do it this way. I'll work out a complete mapping that uses the closest matching waveform.

[soundman007]

I understand, so how about another way of working. If we know what a missing waveform is for a particular preset of SY99 then surely among the more that 200 hundred waveforms which you already have there will often be something considerably closer to it than just a triangle wave. So why not use that?

Yeah, I suppose that would be an improvement.

The triangle wave was just a consequence of how the SysEx works. SY99 SysEx patches consist of 2 commands. First there is a command that sends a regular SY77 voice that has a triangle waveform if it uses a waveform that doesn't exist in the SY99. The second command is a SY99 only command that updates the waveform to the correct one, and also adds the parameters for the SY99 effects. This way the SY77 can still load SY99 patches. They simply ignore the second command.

But there is no reason why I should do it this way. I'll work out a complete mapping that uses the closest matching waveform.

That is absolutely awesome!

If there is anything we can help with just let us know.

[EvilDragon]

But there is no reason why I should do it this way. I'll work out a complete mapping that uses the closest matching waveform.

Maybe there could be some community effort in attempting to recreate the samples of SY99?

[soundman007]

But there is no reason why I should do it this way. I'll work out a complete mapping that uses the closest matching waveform.

Maybe there could be some community effort in attempting to recreate the samples of SY99?

Exactly, that was what I was thinking, the "we" in my message was not meant as imperial plural

[EvilDragon]

I guess the main issue with that idea is that it's difficult to provide provenance of how the sample was created (or worse, stolen from). So I would understand sheaf's reluctance to go that route.

[tumface]

Personally, I think fresh new sets of pseudo-retro ROMpler-y samples that aren't trying to mirror the original library would be more fun. But both would be cool

[IvyBirds]

Personally, I think fresh new sets of pseudo-retro ROMpler-y samples that aren't trying to mirror the original library would be more fun. But both would be cool

$50 spent here

https://digitalsoundfactory.com/product ... bit-phatt/

Gets you the entire library from the old early 1990s E-mu Proteus 1,2, and 3 units as well as the Proteus Orbit and Phatt.

These are legal and licensed from E-mu/Creative directly and are in the Sound Font format

You can use the free open sourced "Convert with Moss" or something like Chicken Systems Translator to convert them into other forms. I HIGHLY recommend Convert with Moss, you can use it to batch convert a folder of Soundfonts into a folder of SFZ

Sheaf has said before he is adding SFZ support to SWAYED

That's a TON of old Rompler sounds that covers everything from old Synths, to orchestral, to world sounds, to dance and the Proteus library since it came from the E-II and E-III library is far more interesting than the old AWM2 library from Yamaha before the Motif came out

They have a bunch of other old Rompler sounds available also from other Romplers and Samplers

I have it and highly recommend it. If you are looking for a low cost and ethical/legal way to have a great library of some of the best old Rompler sounds that is it

[simmo75]

I took the plunge with this synth, eagerly awaiting user sample import, and hopefully a nice in-depth tutorial.
Congrats to the dev!