Hey guys, I’m just an ordinary dev looking for something to work on. While messing around with my hobby projects, I couldn’t help but notice that under the surface, there are a lot of places that the libre desktop can be improved. I’d like to take on your suggestions on what I should seriously consider working on and...
Hey guys, I’m writing a user manual for some software I’m publishing. It’s a software synthesizer design toolkit, for making your own software synthesizer in your programming language of choice. Of course, in order to make your own synthesizer, you must know how one works....
Thank you so much for the offer! I’ll mostly stick to soft synths, but I don’t mind going into the history a little bit to explain terminology and whatnot. There’s a surprising amount of overlap between analog subtractive synths and software subtractive synths anyways.
Fantastic question! A synthesizer is a device that generates audio signals. I remember reading somewhere that they were sometimes referred to as “noise machines”, in regards to I think the Minimoog specifically. A drum machine is a type of synthesizer, as were the electronic-keyboard-having synths of the past.
I think immediately of libao for the C programming language. Imagine a while loop that completes itself at least 44100 times in a second. If the synth cannot write to the buffer that quickly, the sound card runs out of samples, and can’t do anything, so it stops playing. Hence that clicky mess sound. This is for realtime synthesis though. If you can produce audio at your own pace, you have the opportunity to sound good every time.
Hey guys, forgive me if I’m posting in the wrong place, but I have a talent for understanding audio very well. I just finished implementing a sequencer and a synthesizer in C, just for fun. Now that I’m done, I feel pretty good about this project, and I feel like there’s no reason not to keep going, but I don’t know what...
LibreWands has been added to the ArchLinux AUR! (aur.archlinux.org)
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I’ve made a tonne of videos showcasing myself playing Minetest and SuperTuxKart, as well as a good variety of other fully libre games....
What Would You Like To See Improved in GNU/Linux?
Hey guys, I’m just an ordinary dev looking for something to work on. While messing around with my hobby projects, I couldn’t help but notice that under the surface, there are a lot of places that the libre desktop can be improved. I’d like to take on your suggestions on what I should seriously consider working on and...
What Do You Want To Know About Synthesizers? (lemmy.ca)
Hey guys, I’m writing a user manual for some software I’m publishing. It’s a software synthesizer design toolkit, for making your own software synthesizer in your programming language of choice. Of course, in order to make your own synthesizer, you must know how one works....
What Improvements Would You Like To See In Free/Libre, Open Source Music Software?
Hey guys, forgive me if I’m posting in the wrong place, but I have a talent for understanding audio very well. I just finished implementing a sequencer and a synthesizer in C, just for fun. Now that I’m done, I feel pretty good about this project, and I feel like there’s no reason not to keep going, but I don’t know what...