This is a demonstration of an easily downloaded and useable modular synth construction kit. Great for the creation of sounds to be used in songs, realtime performance or just tinkering.
It supports a lot of different kinds of input and output, and even contains simple electronic component simulation like flip-flops and counters. It seems everything can be controlled by everything else and in no particular order. Just plug and play, lierally!!
BTW, I didn’t have to compress the video, the video file was about 120 megs, even though I got about 25 minutes of screencasting here.. So I decided to just upload the file as is.. Also I found out my Thinkpad T30 has the ability in Ubuntu to record line and mic at the same time, I guess it supports a lot of other outputs as well, I haven’t full experimented with it.. I use Audacity initially to determine if there is a way to record audio from the hardware, when I get the right mixer configuration, I’ll bring up gtk-recordmydesktop, and record my tinkering with the mixer to see what all the controls do.. Once I know what is going on, I’ll do a tutorial with that.. That’s what I did to learn how to do this..
But the modular synth was tinkering of a different sort, fortunately you don’t need a manual, all you need is some sample setups, and you have enough to get started tinkering.. It’s sort of like Buzz Tools, but Buzz Tools is tracker centric, this software is live performance and sequencer/modular centric.. I’d imagine you could make some nicer sounds with this than in Buzz Machines (on windows).. Search my youtube video channel for a demonstration I did of “Buzz Machines” running in wine. It’s amazing there isn’t some better examples on youtube of people using this.
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Abstraction is good …
Abstraction is good. I’ve thought about attacking a video editor with the idea of abstracting video as a 3D volume or something like that. I don’t know why Linux doesn’t have a video editor that really works, I use blender’s sequence editor, but it’s not a perfect solution.
Well, it sounds like you are doing good work, do you have a donation jar?
I like it the way …
I like it the way it is too overall, or I wouldn’t keep working on it. But it has always had stability issues, in the jack plugin, in the file format, in various number crunching issues. So I am streamlining the code, and entirely replacing how the GUI/DSP/FIle Format is abstracted, etc.
Oh, and the idea of packaging SSM patches as LADSPA plugins is one I have had too, I have a test pipeline for an AudioUnit (OSX) plugin using SSM components, and after my rewrite is finished, it will be doable.
It’s a fantastic …
It’s a fantastic program, I love it.. I have a tutorial that I want to do to demonstrate how noise canceling works which can lead to other things like track reconstruction, SSM could be like the logic/synthesis glue that people could use to customize recording setups.. I’m thinking something I heard about in a video how David Bowie recorded “Heros”, he had one mic set to pick him up when he’s singing softly, then one that turned on when he was screaming. That could be done with SSM.
Well I actually …
Well I actually like it the way it is.. I think the only thing it lacks is stability with Jack. It’s quite a lot of fun for hacking sound. It would be nice if you could programm SSM plugins and package them up and put them into other programs as LADSPA plugins, say..
It seems to be rather unstable, at least the one I have, with Jack.. If I do too much, it crashes.. But I think if that was stable, I couldn’t ask for anything more, because I can route stuff then through SSM.
FYI – the main …
FYI – the main reason there isn’t a whole lot out there with SSM is because it was abandoned years ago by most of the developers, to work on other projects.
I have been rewriting it massively off and on for the past few years, but it still needs work to be useful again because (amongst other things) I am replacing the entire GUI.
The last official release was 0.2.2a though many changes were made in cvs, that never hit any debian/ubuntu packages.
es compatible con …
es compatible con lmms? o es aparte y si es compatible como puedo usarlo con lmms….. ta bueno el aporte
21:30 demonstrates …
21:30 demonstrates how to use oscillators to control stereo pan and echo.. Be careful at one point 23:12 I hit some high notes, and probably will ruin someones hearing, watch out!!
Listen toward the …
Listen toward the end I plug an oscillator into the pan control of the mixer, creating interesting stereo effects. I also experiment with the echo plugin.
Another thing to …
Another thing to note is this laptop is not a multi-core, it’s just a Pentium 4 M processor at 2Ghz, and I’m running gtk-recordmydesktop on the same processor, so its doing the screencapture to movie while I’m using this synthesizer. That’s one heck of a juggling act..
BTW I have not …
BTW I have not stopped playing around with this.. It would probably be a pretty good teaching tool because it gives you a scope, basic logic, wave generators, envelope generators and so on..