The screen on the new DMNO looks very nice and I am hopeful that it will be available as an addon to the other FPGA synths! Even if i have to cut a hole in the chassis it would be an upgrade well worth it!
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Would be awesomE yeah!
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Totally agree, I’d be willing to pay over the odds, as this would improve the experience a lot for me.
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Something like this is unfortunately impractical. Frankly, an editor would be preferable at this point. There’s a nice blank spot in the left corner of my Gemini for a phone or tablet running an app. At least we’d be able to name our presets, identify parameter values, and basically see what the bloody hell is going on inside the instrument.
I’ve made my thoughts about a screen on the Gemini very apparent in these threads, but it should’ve been decided (screen or not) during the design process. UDO had a concept for their instruments and followed that to fruition. That, alone is commendable, but common experience dictates that there will always be a divide between the designer and the user; much of that chasm unrealized until the user…uses the thing.
I think UDO simply listened to their customer base.
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I think it would make more sense to make a little FX unit or something, with the screen, that can also integrate with the Supers via USB &or midi. Cutting a hole sounds a little drastic. I personally am surprised it matters that much to people!
When I first got my SG I made a bunch of recordings - taking the advice of an experienced person who said you should always record your first sessions on a new synth because the way that you use it will be totally fresh and without expectations. Recently I listened back to a few of those and it rekindled something for me - there are places you get to when you just play the instrument that you simply don’t find when you are focused on producing and recalling patches. I would definitely advise not forgetting to let the instrument lead you sometimes!
I’ve been in an overly analytic phase recently and was glad to have recorded those reminders for myself…
Anyway, I’ve been working on some plugdata (runs everywhere) patches that will do some of what you ask (writing the names to file will be coming in the next update). It is emphatically not an editor, but it might be a while until you see one of those - I know sunny has run into a bit of a block integrating the program he uses with the Gemini’s layered structure. Uncle Wayback's Ultra Gemini Thread - #7 by unclewayback
Anyway, to me the design is perfect, and I think it’s a bit strange for people who love screens so much to go buying a synth without one, and then to complain about it.
If it were to be done, it would have to be an external box, cutting is really impractical, and I honestly don’t see even this coming, but UDO making an add on that requires cutting is never going to happen.
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