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Zupiter: A Web-Based Modular Synthesizer

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Re: Zupiter: A Web-Based Modular Synthesizer

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post #11

This is great! Another favorite modular synth is the one that comes with Caustic.

I second this. Caustic 3 is awesome (and free for desktop use). I’m a bit sad that it hasn’t seen any updates recently, since I would love to have it play better with other iOS apps.

Re: Zupiter: A Web-Based Modular Synthesizer

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post #2

OP here. Feedback and questions welcome! Feel free to reply to this comment. I also created a little subreddit to discuss Zupiter: https://www.reddit.com/r/musictools/

It doesn't seem your oscillators are behaving correctly when you vary their frequency input. You seem to be doing something like phase = freq * time, which will break horribly when freq changes. Instead, you need to accumulate the phase over time based on whatever freq happens to be, like phase += freq * timeOfSingleSample.

I implemented this last night, and it solves the problem I was having with portamento: https://z.musictools.live/#95

Re: Zupiter: A Web-Based Modular Synthesizer

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post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks a lot :) The only thing I find a bit unfortunate is that despite many people trying it (wordpress shows over 5000 hits), very few people are using the share feature to share what they've created. I'll have to investigate what stops people. I'm wondering if it's just having to create an account, or if I've done some major UI design error.

I think people are just too afraid too share, as they are effectively doing fun things but... really they then think that it is just crap. We are too much in a society that is telling us that if we made it in less than an hour, it can only be crap. This is one thing the the near futur of the earth must fix ;) If sharing IS important for you, change you design in the way that it becomes the default option.

I myself feel a little embarrassed when I realize how much is missing from Zupiter. There are still bugs, and people are asking for so many extra features, my TODO list is already pages long.

> If sharing IS important for you, change you design in the way that it becomes the default option.

How would you implement that, making it the default option?

Re: Zupiter: A Web-Based Modular Synthesizer

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post #17

It’s totally awesome and so easy to use!!

Thanks a lot :) The only thing I find a bit unfortunate is that despite many people trying it (wordpress shows over 5000 hits), very few people are using the share feature to share what they've created. I'll have to investigate what stops people. I'm wondering if it's just having to create an account, or if I've done some major UI design error.

That seems to be normal... I created a very similar platform (but text-based instead of graphical) and encountered the same problem. Despite the traffic, so far only 3 people shared anything on it: me, the guy who created the underlying language, and one brave soul who submitted cool bytebeat patches.

Maybe that's just the proportion of people willing to share their experiments. Maybe we need to create incentives for people to post (like... challenges?) It might also have to do with advertising to the right crowd.

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