russell rants rambunctiously: only a small matter of programming

June 17, 2002

only a small matter of programming

I got Nooner and Renoon out to the mulch-discuss community, finally. I'm still not happy with the MIDI-out device management, but I'm not quite ready to add UI to Renoon to support a better solution.

One of the mulch-discuss guys is putting a track which uses Edge and Pegger onto a compilation CD for a fledgling record company. Above and beyond the letter of the license agreement, he's sending me a CDR copy of the whole comp. Some day I hope to have a big stack of CDs that I can point to and say "those use my tools".

I got Facade sort of working — the timing-based expressions aren't working yet, but the tone- and velocity- based ones more or less are, though it needs a little work — it should be more reluctant to declare a change of key, for instance. What isn't clear yet is how useful it's going to be. Because Facade outputs VCV, and most of my soft-synths want MIDI, and because Renoon is clunky, I didn't test it much with soft-synths; mostly I tested it with Femme because that was easy to hook up for a quick smoke test. Unfortunately, that meant I was listening to all the expressions as pitch changes, which conflicted with what I expected to hear as I hit different notes on the keyboard.

While working on Facade, I figured there'd be some fiddly bits where it wouldn't be putting out quite the right data, and I'd want to see the actual numbers coming off the outputs. This collided in my mind with the various cross-plugin network communication schemes I had, and I figured I should implement a simple UDP socket messaging system and use it to collate debug messages from multiple plugins into a single log. The logger would be a standalone app that just waited for these messages to appear. However, I got on a roll working on Facade, and wound up just opening a console window from the plugin, directly, to output the debuggery. When I'm feeling a bit better maybe I'll try building the logger system again.

One of the other mulch-discussors asked when Animal was gonna be done. I said I didn't really know, then went to revisit the beast. I built a new project workspace for it with my new, improved, nearly sane directory structure, and rewrote half the drum sample synthesis engine to use my filter and waveshaper class objects. That was actually fixing something that wasn't broken, mostly, but hey, whatever. Then I started casting about the web, looking for tips on cymbal synthesis, because I've just about decided that Animal's existing synthesis model just isn't gonna cut it for crash/ride cymbals. (Short summary of existing synthesis technique: one enveloped noise source with a low-or-high-or-band-pass filter, "noise", one damped sinewave oscillator, "tone"; noise and tone are modulated and/or mixed together in one of four modes; output is that mod-mix put through a soft-clipping waveshaper. Sounds like an analog drum machine, pretty passable for a lot of the sounds, though I am learning I have a pretty crappy ear for drums.) No one seems to know how to synthesize good cymbals. Best lead I have so far is a description of the TR808 cymbal-synth circuit; I might try to softwareize that.

I did finally decide that I'm going to allow user-supplied samples to work with Animal, which I had previously rejected due to my UI aversion — I'm gonna do it without a UI! Animal, on startup, is just going to look in its current directory for files named Animal00*.wav-Animal31*.wav; those will fill the drum sample slots, and the * parts will be the names presented by Animal. If one or more of those files are not found, it'll synthesize them on the fly and write them out. So the first time you run it, it'll take a couple of seconds and write out the whole set; then you just go in and replace my sucky cymbals with a good sampled cymbal. My laziness is satisfied, my Animal remains a pure synthesis thang, and the end-user can have whatever sounds he wants. Yes, it's a hack...

Posted by russell at June 17, 2002 11:31 PM

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