I've just finished a first version of my new synth. It's called WOPI (don't know why though)...

It's meant to be played with the computer keyboard, the implementation still lacks something, but it's functional...

Thanks for trying this one out.

Cheers,

Domien

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/WOPISynth.zip

Cool synth Domien. I got some really crispy and hard sounding noises from it, great clav or hapsichord like tones, possibly even a good e-pno if you made it poly.

Here's a few thoughts

Nice modularity - it's really easy for me to read your code and understand your architecture with a moment glancing at it.

One missing abstraction - you forgot 8TapDelay~

Use log curves for some of the sliders and play with the ranges, most of the good sounds are in a tiny range and much of the sliders ranges are redundant, especially the envelopes. I am coming to the opinion that horizontal sliders now - just so you can write more than a one letter description of the parameter name.

A bunch of presets are always nice on a synth as starting points and to demonstrate the range of the device - feel free to grab code from the "six simple synthesisers" tutorial that does this (inelegantly but simply) with lists.

Thanks for sharing mate.

Very strange that you got a missing abstraction (8TapPDelay~). Just to ensure myself i'm not going completely bonkers, I've downloaded the zip and checked it. The delay seems to be in there... A pitty you missed it, because it adds a lot of atmosphere...

I know that the osc-sliders do crazy stuff in the lower regions, but when they go all the way up they generate a very smooth oscillator (with some fm-like sparkle). That's mainly the sound i've created it for. Was already thinking of making it 4-voice polyphonic (just to keep cpu usage reasonable).

UI-wise, I try to keep things rather small (e.g. by just using one character) not with the purpose to make things cryptic, but because i want things to be as compact as possible. That way i can open around 6 patches (2 of these, a beat machine, my enhanced laala sampler, and a few others) and play them all together.

The preset thing is certainly something i'm going to look at.

Thanks for checking it out,

Domien