Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] two ideas for jsynthlib

[Frankie F. <jsy...@te...>]

On 19/09/2011 21:34, Maciej Łoziński wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have two ideas that could improve jsynthlib.
>
> One, easier to do is implementing randomization of patches. It would be 
> not much work, as we already have all parameter ranges for patches where 
> there are PatchEditors present. There could be two options - randomize 
> all parameters, or only parameters designated by programmer (because 
> some parameters should not be randomized). I think it would be great 
> editing patches starting from some weird sounds and polish them to be 
> "listenable" ;-) I have such option in my Waldotf MicroQ and I think it 
> would be great to have this on any of my synths :-) What do you think? 
> Could it be implemented as a part of ongoing code refactoring?

I thought there already was a randomise option, but regardless something
like this is totally on my list of things to do. These are things that I
think could be interesting:
* totally random parameters
* starting with an existing patch, randomise only a few parameters, or
change their values slightly from their existing settings
* merge two patches - e.g. take average of all parameters, or by take
parameters randomly from one of the initial patches

This is something I might look at some time after I've done my Proteus
2000 family driver.

>
> Second idea is more complicated and to be honest I have no idea how to 
> realize it :-D But It would be great to be able to translate patches 
> between synths, at least to some extent.

You're right, this is ridiculously complicated!

frankie