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| psch | well, fluidsynth is really powerful, if someone unintuitive | 07:34 | |
| timotimo | oh? | 08:31 | |
| psch | oh, wait, no | ||
| i was thinking of synaddsubfx | 08:32 | ||
| fluidsynth is just a sampler :S | |||
| i mean, as a sampler it's also pretty powerful, but that always depends on the soundfonts you find | |||
| timotimo | hehe | ||
| yeah, synaddsubfx is *really* powerful | 08:33 | ||
| and i have no idea to work it | |||
| so yeah | |||
| psch | i have like 1.5 gb of soundfonts lying around locally | ||
| timotimo | the description checks out | ||
| psch | although i forget where i got them from :| | ||
| probably aggregated by some random person on the internet and offered for download | |||
| i'm pretty sure i didn't torrent it | |||
| looks like it was this pack: archive.org/details/sf2soundfonts | 08:34 | ||
| well, at least a few of the names match vOv | 08:35 | ||
| idk, the hardest part about synaddsubfx is the interface to me | 08:53 | ||
| i mean, functionally it's just a subtractive/additive synthesizer | 08:54 | ||
| and those are actually pretty simple - just route different oscillators with potentially different waveforms together (that's the additive part) and take things away with filters (that's the subtractive part) | 08:55 | ||
| not like those bonker FM synths, which really seems like lots of math to even have an idea what it could sound like :P | |||
| +s | |||
| timotimo | mhm | 08:59 | |
| how do you drive synthesizers like that? | |||
| like, what program gives you an interface for that and also routes midi in and audio out? | 09:00 | ||
| psch | i use qjackctl | 09:01 | |
| and i think zynaddsubfx (yeah, it has a z, i just googled :S ) brings a GUI? | |||
| timotimo | heh. | 09:02 | |
| ok | |||
| psch | getting a clean jackd setup is a bit fiddly though, depending on what you want to route through it and if you want to always run and so on... | ||
| also whether pulseaudio is around or not | |||
| en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZynAddSubFX#...dsubfx.png yeah, looks about how i remember it | 09:03 | ||
| timotimo | i've done it in the past | ||
| i've also used zynaddsubfx through lmms | |||
| psch | it's such a mess, that synth >_> | ||
| timotimo | lmms comes with a bunch of presets | ||
| psch | zynaddsubfx itself too iirc, and they're pretty great afair | 09:04 | |
| i have somewhat of an aversion to using presets though | 09:05 | ||
| feels too effortless | |||
| and, like, i've been to this one goa festival | |||
| and one of the songs literally used the set-at-startup preset of a pretty famous synth for its hook | |||
| and i almost just left again, 'cause that's just terrible | |||
| timotimo | hahaha | 09:06 | |
| i would never make music for others to listen to :) | |||
| psch | heh, idk | 09:09 | |
| i mean, i've written exactly one song for someone else | |||
| but i can't help wanting to show off things i really like | 09:10 | ||
| although i don't really get off my ass and actually make anything recently | 09:11 | ||
| partly also because something is apparently broken with the hdd that holds my linux install, which is why there's no development on Music::Helpers for example :/ | |||
| timotimo | uh oh | 10:05 | |
| psch | i *think* it's on sda0, so not too bad for my data at least, but yeah :S | 10:07 | |
| timotimo | you probably tried the obvious already, right? smart self-check and such? | ||
| psch | yeah | ||
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