[Jsynthlib-devel] synth support that's not made it into SVN!!

[frankster <jsy...@te...>]

Looking on google there is a guy who has generated drivers for two of 
his own synths, yet this is not part of the code in SVN. He's written 
quite a lot of info about it here 
http://sites.google.com/site/experimentalfrush/jsynthlib and apparently 
started the WIKI that was linked to this list yesterday. What a waste!!

He's been updating his driver for the SPD11 as recently as July this 
year judging by his github ( 
https://github.com/freqrush/RolandSPD11_JSynthLib/ and 
https://github.com/freqrush/YamahaCS2x_JSynthLib ), so its a waste that 
he's going to all this effort and its not getting incorporated into the 
SVN repository.

Google also reveals that there is also some refactoring effort or 
something that someone was doing a couple of years ago: 
https://github.com/jpcaruana/jsynthlib - dunno if this is the same 
refactoring effort that Joe Emenaker was talking about earlier or if its 
a different attempt.

My general feeling is that all this work should be taking part on the 
developer list, and all this work (the good stuff at least) should be 
getting brought into the main jsynthlib repository. So the project seems 
to have in recent times failed to engage with the developers that 
obviously want to help it advance! which is a shame really.

And as there are more synths in SVN than appear on 
http://www.jsynthlib.org/synths.html, I wonder if there should at some 
point be a release to make these drivers available to more people - if 
they're not getting used they're not going to get improved! Or at least 
update this web page so that it reflects the current state of the 
development branch.

This is what I think anyway.

Regards,
Frankie