Thanks for reminding me about audiogl. I kindof forgot about it after the kickstarter hype. Looks like it’s really coming along
The open canvas kind of feel reminds me a bit of audiomulch, but one thing it seems to do better is abstracting the control data as music. Instead of being one long timeline, there are various ways to modulate and loop control data. I think I compose in AM in a similar way - e.g. making kicks out of automating sines and melodies out of oscillator frequencies, but I have trouble building up layers of complexity. This is partially because of the lack of automation abstraction (and partially because of my own limitations).
It’s also really cool to see something break out of the common frameworks like juce and qt and have an interface built from the ground up.
You get into that? Not tried it myself but thought it looked very interesting, then most the comments I’ve seen from people who have given it some time was it turned out to be more eye candy than really usable…
You can do quite nifty things with the module builder already… The parameters of the devices and objects are controllable by midi commands.
i’m currently just patching in a few instruments through ReWire Midi:
The output is currently limited to one pair, but so is the output for the generic audio sequencer itself.
I hope this gets expanded quite soon, because if you have multiple outputs, then ReWire does make it usable for sequencing multiple instruments.
Code preparations for the Mac port were also announced.
AXS really doesn’t get the props it deserves for pioneering the modern era of realtime softsynths.
This was back in the days when sample playback was the norm and polyphony with “new note actions” was cutting edge. All of a sudden - oscillators and filters!? a JP-8000 clone in the box!? I could hardly believe that I could control the filter cutoff in realtime.
Seems tame now, but at the time, sound design amounted to collecting sample libraries and trying to find the right combination of Korg X50 samples or whatever that would approximate what you wanted to hear.
Renoise these days (obviously) but NewTracker will always have a special place in my heart for introducing me to a world of ethereal sounds and endless noise.
That, and MusicLine’s freeform pattern sequencer (hint hint).
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