Re: [Zynaddsubfx-user] Odd request

[Mark D. M. <mar...@gm...>]

On 01-11, Diego Rengifo wrote:
> About the new interface I think is good even there are somethings
> not good as the way the GUI shows values of its parameters.

I agree about the parameter representation.
It would be great to just see 'seconds', '%', or 'dB' associated with
each one of the parameters.
I know what has to be done to resolve this, but it's a slow and error
prone task due to how these values were coded historically.

I'd say fixing the parameter representation would solve the last major
architectural issue I have with ZynAddSubFX.
(well, that and some of the realtime parameter automation, but the
infrastructure has been put into place to solve that particular task
piece-by-piece already)


> no way to reset them.

This is being tracked at
https://github.com/zynaddsubfx/zyn-fusion-issues/issues/14

Another Zyn dev, Johannes, is working on adding default values to the
internal metadata that the user interface uses.
Once that metadata is there it should be added into the zyn-fusion UI
rather quickly.

> I can't save presets and use them later in Zyn-Fusion.
> Cubase 8.5 crashes trying to do it.
> I do load my old presets ZynAddSubFX ver 2.x, but can't save.

That issue was present at the time of the initial 3.0.0 release, but has
been since fixed to the best of my knowledge.
More precisely 3.0.0 and earlier versions assumed that the audio thread
would be called periodically and that assumption wouldn't be true only
in the case of a partial crash.
This assumption was not true in plugin hosts which let plugins go
'offline' when they didn't have any active notes or other activity.
This had previously caused a crash when saving various files as well as
copying presets (paste/loading didn't interact with this issue).

The fix should be in 3.0.1 and 3.0.2rc1.
If you're using 3.0.0, I would recommend upgrading.
If you're using the most recent version and are still experiencing this
issue let me know and I'll reopen it on the bug tracker.

> The days after was launched Zyn-Fusion I couldn't understand
> why only rekkerd.com wrote the new.
> Even in forums this new was not commented as Zyn deserved.

The release was sent to several websites.
In the end it was shown via:
- This mailing list
- The 3.0.0 specific/marketing mailing list
- Linux-Audio-Announce
- kvr-forums (in the zynaddsubfx subforum)
- linuxmusicians forums
- rekkerd
- planet.linuxaudio.org

Overall the number of people that supported the fundraiser was very
limited and while I was actively monitoring the stats I did not see any
sales which could be attributed to rekkerd.


> I think the community that did the buy is also agree and maybe the product
> was not ready and the service and neither were some resources like the manual.

It's part of the unfortunate reality of having a time-limited
development cycle.
The vast majority of work on the user interface was done by myself
during a several month break from my normal day job.
Once that gap in my normal job finished it was difficult to quickly
fix issues, add polish to the interface, and add additional functionality.

I'd say there are plenty of issues with zyn, (both the UI and the
synthesis engine) and solving them is an interesting task.
At the moment my day job consumes a large amount of time and based upon
the numbers from the fundraiser, additional fulltime work on Zyn isn't
practical.
So, development may be somewhat slower, but bugs are still getting fixed
and oversights (like how VST parameters are exposed) are getting
addressed.

--Mark