Great initiative!
Comments below...
On 29/09/14 22:37, Jonathan E Brickman wrote:
Greetings, everyone. I am doing some work "in fits and starts" on the
Yoshimi wiki, here:
http://sourceforge.net/p/yoshimi/wiki/Home/
The new page is the Overview:
https://sourceforge.net/p/yoshimi/wiki/an%20Overview
I am also working on an old-school "Links" page. If you have web-facing
recordings with some or all content generated using Yoshimi, please
shoot me some URLs; if you have any web sites discussing Yoshimi I'll
very much want those as well; and if there is a third category you can
think of, please do let me know.
What's the bar for inclusion? My latest two
songs<http://www.amlie.name/music/music-downloads/> use it, but I wouldn't say
they are Yoshimi heavy. It's all mixed in with other instruments and vocals.
Some of the stuff Will has been working on is probably better for demonstration
purposes.
I think you've given me the best way to proceed: We need "demo examples" as
well as "music including", that's two separate categories.
I am interested in building a page to be called something like
"Innovations", which could contain some developer-thoughts of areas in
which Yoshimi shines brightest. I am definitely not the one to generate
or update the list of items, but I'd be very happy to format it for
friendly reading.
One particular true innovation of Yoshimi (well, ZynAddSubFX, but I assume we
count them together) is the
PadSynth<http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/doc/PADsynth/PADsynth.htm>.
Invented by Nasca Octavian Paul himself, this is a type of algorithm I have not
seen anywhere else. And it has even been incorporated in commercial
programs<http://www.renoise.com/tools/padsynth> since (ok, it's an extension,
but still).
One of the issues being gently addressed, is the fact that Yoshimi is not
ZynAddSubFX. You have clearly pointed out a very good set of topics, but I'm
not sure how and where to discuss them yet. Zyn does have a large web site of
its own, and it is a project tremendously alive in its own right.
If we do construct a Yoshimi innovations page, I'd like to see it be
Yoshimi-specific, containing some developer detail, with enough non-devel text
so that all can read and get something out of it.
There are other pages in thought, including one called "Approaches to
Setup". Suggestions on this and all pages are definitely encouraged,
but I am not promising anything in particular except the above :-)
I'm bordering dangerously close to self promotion now, but I will mention it
anyway since I personally find it very useful: An alternative to running
Yoshimi standalone is to use Jack2DSSI<http://jack2dssi.sourceforge.net/> to
turn it into a plugin. It's not quite as smooth as a real dedicated plugin, but
it's still pretty useful, and you avoid all the hassle with custom scripts to
launch Yoshimi instances and connect them together and so on. Certainly not for
everyone, but like I said, it's an alternative.
This I had not heard of. I will have to look into it, I did not know it was
possible.
Jonathan E. Brickman
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