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I’ve been following the Anyma Phi on the synth blogs; great to see you here! Any advice for someone on the product side looking to get into the synth development scene? I’m a designer and have so far partnered with a DSP developer on one project, a plugin for Reason based on Mutable Instruments’ Plaits ( https://soundlabs.presteign.com ), but haven’t really figured out where to go next.
Hi! Would this would be misplaced hope to wish that in a near future there would exist an electronic instrument reproducing physically the clarinet (with the same keys), while simulating finger holes physics and (most importantly!) reed/lips/tongue/breath interaction?
MIDI wind instruments have been around for a while now, including: - Akai EWI (one of the first MIDI wind instrument, and still well known and well used) - Roland Aerophone - Berglund NuRAD Have you tried them and where do you think they fall short?
The problem is that these instruments are not physically similar to the clarinet, for example regarding the system of keys and levers.
I hope that some electronic instrument would make that jump.
That would allow clarinetists to silently practice anywhere, as well as seamlessly engage in electronic music and digital creation without having to change the muscle memory.
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MIDI wind instruments have been around for a while now, including: - Akai EWI (one of the first MIDI wind instrument, and still well known and well used) - Roland Aerophone - Berglund NuRAD Have you tried them and where do you think they fall short?
I've watched a lot of reviews on Youtube. The problem is that these instruments are not physically similar to the clarinet, for example regarding the system of keys and levers. I hope that some electronic instrument would make that jump. That would allow clarinetists to silently practice anywhere, as well as seamlessly engage in electronic music and digital creation without having to change the muscle memory.
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I've watched a lot of reviews on Youtube. The problem is that these instruments are not physically similar to the clarinet, for example regarding the system of keys and levers. I hope that some electronic instrument would make that jump. That would allow clarinetists to silently practice anywhere, as well as seamlessly engage in electronic music and digital creation without having to change the muscle memory.
My son plays the clarinet and uses an EWI with no difficulty? (He doesn't like it much though, and much prefers the real instrument. But he can play it.)
That leaves the first point, which is the major one for me at least (allow to practice clarinet with headphones).
Cool to see you on HN! What do you see as setting your synths and hardware apart from, say, the Osmose and Hydrasynth? If you don't mind me asking, for your hardware, what's running under the hood? Big ARM cores / SOC? RTOS on a Cortex-M? What challenges have you faced working on whichever you're less used to? (The VST if you have more hardware background, the hardware if you have more desktop software background)
The EaganMatrix (inside the Osmose) and the Hydrasynth are both great and each one has its own approach. I think the Anyma synths are less beefy, in terms of computational resources, but the synth engine offers more kinds of modules, more freedom in some way. Not that it's always useful to have 16 LFOs or envelopes, or to be able to modulate the curve of a mapping, but it sometimes makes trying an idea easier during…
Oh my. So, how much processing load are you typically at now?
You know your backers are, from what can be gained from the KS comms, (to put it mildly) not too convinced Aodyo will provide more than enough juice (!=JUCE) this time, for chaining up enough modules while guaranteeing 16 note poly? And this with a multi-timbral design?
(you might refer to your end of 2023 update, regarding the 4+1 core concept which had to be changed creating further delay, and so on)
I dont know crap about music, but can this simulate a vacuum tube amplifier and demolish the market? One internet guy explains the frequency response of a solid state amp getting a 100Hz sine wave shows a peak at 100Hz, and a tube amp shows multiple peaks. People pay a pretty penny for glowing tubes on their desks claiming its got a warmer sound which a solid state device cannot replicate.
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Interesting prespective. I can definitely see how you have the immediacy edge over the pain of the EaganMatrix, and having different engines besides the core wavetabel-y of the Hydra is a win, IMHO - though, yeah, both fit different needs. I'm mostly an embedded guy (Usually much lower power ST parts), so it's neat to hear about how you approached it. Having multiple chips separate so can't underrun as easily if the…
I did a tiny bit of DSP and I've been exposed to the HCI/NIME community in the past, but that's it. Many modules in the Anyma are just reasonable implementations of clever formulae I didn't design but studied from papers :). And for the Mutable stuff, a lot of optimization work and tradeoffs to make. We are lucky to have a sound designer with a good ear. That said, we've been working for a while on our own waveguide…
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The EaganMatrix (inside the Osmose) and the Hydrasynth are both great and each one has its own approach. I think the Anyma synths are less beefy, in terms of computational resources, but the synth engine offers more kinds of modules, more freedom in some way. Not that it's always useful to have 16 LFOs or envelopes, or to be able to modulate the curve of a mapping, but it sometimes makes trying an idea easier during…
> The Omega runs on a mix of Cortex-A7 and STM32. Oh my. So, how much processing load are you typically at now? You know your backers are, from what can be gained from the KS comms, (to put it mildly) not too convinced Aodyo will provide more than enough juice (!=JUCE) this time, for chaining up enough modules while guaranteeing 16 note poly? And this with a multi-timbral design? (you might refer to your end of 2023…
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