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Some hopefully useful features (requests)

sudiosudio
edited December 2013 in Feature requests and bug reports
Some Ideas for the already great firmware:

1. Ring modulation: There are currently "FM" and "Mix" selectable as Oscillator Mode in FM Page. Can simple ring modulation be added ? Should be great for metallic sounds

2. Mod Env routing exclusively to FM: As I understand Mod Env is hardwired to pitch AND FM amount. I think it could be useful to influence the env modulation seperately for Pitch and FM Amount. On other gear I created a lot of interesting drum sounds by modulating
FM amount only with an Mod env while keeping pitch constant.... I think of two solutions: A) The user selects the mod env to modulate FM Amt OR Pitch OR Both. B) There are two controlable values one for FM and one for pitch.

3. Voice prelistening: In Voice Mode, is it possible that sequencer buttons 1-7 trigger the individual voices when the sequencer is NOT running. I think thats very helpful when editing sounds...

I am very curious for a new firmware version.
Will the branches (user samples, rudeog improvements) be merged in the new version?
Any Idea when it comes out?

Comments

  • tsvtsv
    Excellent ideas!
  • rudeogrudeog
    I like the mod env -> fm idea as well. +1
    Right now you can do this using an lfo that retriggers, but would be cool to have it dedicated.
  • julianjulian
    a very dirty ringmod should be possible, but to do it propperly without aliasing one would have to oversample the ringmod and there are no processor cycles left for that.

    maybe i'll try it out and if it sounds ok i'll include it.
    But somehow I remember non oversampled ringmod to sound very noisy :-/

    2 and 3 are possible. But I think the prelisten feature would be another case for the config file.
    Sometimes I like programming patterns without a playing sequencer ;)

  • rudeogrudeog
    Hey Julian, how are you figuring out how many processor cycles you have left? Do you have some kind of mechanism in place that dumps out CPU utilization?

  • sudiosudio
    Yes absolutely true, ringmod will be noisy - however I got useful results in my own ringmod drumsound DSP experients based on the "naive" implementation: I think it is somewhat comparable to FM. If both waves are sine, nice clean spectra are obtained. In case of waves with more overtones you will obtain clean spectra if the frequency ratio is  like 1:2, 1:3 etc. It's metallic sound is quite useful for bells etc... Considering noise, it is not different from what you get from FM anyway.

     I like the config file idea...
     
  • julianjulian
    The problem is not that I don't like Ringmod, it's great!

    But it can double the frequency content of the signal, hence 2x oversampling is needed to prevent aliasing ;-)

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