On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 10:13:19AM +0100, W.Boeke wrote: > Yoshimi is a neat repacking of ZynAddSubFX. It offers all kinds of > interesting sound, but I call it musician-hostile. What you see is a bunch > of controls that you have to manipulate with the mouse while playing, trying > to read and understand the very small labels (on a modern high-DPI monitor) > and try to get the sound, attack etc. that you want. It is next to > impossible to perform this, so you will only try some of the 510 build-in > patches, but you can't modify them easily. And modifying the sound while > playing is essential for a good performance. In other words: Yoshimi is way > too complicated. It would be more useful to supply only 10 patches that are > easy to modify.
There are efforts under way to separate yoshimi's DSP from the GUI so that alternative GUIs are possible. A long term goal, so don't expect this to happen all too soon. Also hovering around is the idea (and a branch[1]) to add MIDI-learn functionality to the knobs to replace/expand the existing hard-coded MIDI bindings[2] [1] https://github.com/licnep/yoshimi [2] http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/doc_3.html > Take for instance an ADSR envelope generator. In Yoshimi (and in most other > software synths) there are 4 knobs that you must control. This is replicated > from old hardware synths. Why not show a small diagram of the envelope, that > you can modify directly with the mouse or with your fingers? In both zyn and yoshimi, the buttons labelled 'E' next to the envelope controls will open a window containing a mouse-editable diagram of the envelopes. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
