Why not a librarian/editor?:
- displays real time parameter values of the connected synth
- name/store/organize/backup and transfer patches, patterns and waves to and from the unit
- edit/convert user single cycle waves to supported format
nice! how good and useful is the integration?
I rarely use software, but Omnishphere looks really interesting.
What does the software integration mean in this case? Might be enough to make me go for it.
This. Please. For the love of god. A UDO MPE synth. If you could bring this to the Super 8 / SG somehow, itād be a literal dream come true.
@hman @sparth In general, it maps the controls from any featured hardware synth to equivalent controls within Omnisphere, providing a more familiar, hands-on route into sound design on Omnisphere itself. There are some additions to the new v3 libraries where sounds have been created only using a specific featured hardware synth and are thus completely tweakable from the control surface, which is really neat. However, Iām so used to using the mouse with Omnisphere that itās not really a feature Iāve used to any great extent.
The Super 6 already responds to MPE, and so will the rest of the Super line when someone finally gets around to it. (Hopefully without the forced zeroing of the pitchbend at noteon so that we can use pitchbend to retune notes until microtuning is implemented.) The Supers also have very lovely polyphonic aftertouch keyboards (available as an upgrade on the 6). The benefit to traditional aftertouch for me being that you have a clear distinction between velocity and aftertouch, which this other design appears to blur. It would make quite a difference to patch design. As regards MPE I am more familiar with the different dimensions approach, x/y/z. There you have timbre as y/vertical movement, on the osmose it is more like an extension of z/depth (i.e. aftertouch, though on things like the linnstrument there is no after about it: it is there as soon as you touch)ā¦ anyway, osmose appears to have been designed with that in mind, so patches and such probably work quite well with it, which would not be the case with the Supers. Both very expressive instruments, but quite different playing styles/designs.
BUT:
1.can you read ALL mod routings in Sunny Synths?
2. is there progress supporting Sunny Synth author @goodweather by providing missing pieces to make the editor / librarian work better?
- UDO MIDI controller might be fun to get with the ribbon, joystick and no screens but quick switching of channels, program changes, etc. I imagine just having a rack backstage and having the MIDI controller do everything on the fly with some programming necessary. Maybe a 3 digit (to display number 128) screen might be required.
- UDO Super Drum Machine. Monophonic or Duophonic voices all DDS1 + Filter + VCA + Modulation to get drum sounds. Maybe a compliment to a Perkons or Vermona DRM1, where each āvoiceā is fully editable in panel and then you have the sequencer section.
- UDO Super Gemini / 8 Firmware updates! MPE seems to still be pending, thereās some QoL issues here and there. If the team has the time it would maybe be low hanging fruit.
- UDO synth:
- Based on Prophet 6, Super is based on the Rolandās biggest legendary hits, the DMNO has the looks of a SEM Two Voice. Now we need a UDO synth based on what Dave Smith once called his best Prophet Synth yet (even though he later gave in to a P5/P10 reissue).
- Based on a Minimoog, make it monophonic, cheaper but with great design. Give it the same love as the Super 6 and Iām sure a lot of people will use it. Forums and social media seem to bash the Moog Messenger but if you look at reviews from actual customers youāll see it is doing quite well. A UDO approach might fit the bill!
I would love to have a stereo FPGA DDS1 oscillator out of the Super 8 in a eurorack moduleā¦ with the user-definable waveforms; a wave morphing CV input; dual modulation CV inputs for FM, SUPER detune, and PWMā¦ and all under 14HP in a UDO white panel finish.
And follow that up with a eurorack filter module using the DMNO filter and a smaller VFD display.
Of course, once I get my DMNO, Iāll be patching my euro gear into it to get the same effect. But Iād still love to see UDO eurorack modules.
Tempest-ish drum machine/sampler, with a mostly reused voice architecture from DMNO but with a longer sample format for transients.
FPGAs are really nice for additive synthesis, like the Xaoc Odessa, which is so beautiful but paraphonic and hard to unlock in its format. Iād love more control over the UDO oscillators in general, especially in this direction. I feel like this is a future superpower of UDO when more future investment in software happens.
BBD-per-voice for poly karplus strong synthesis.
Why does everyone want UDO to produce a copy of some historic synth / drum machine etc when it is all available either in software or mega cheap from a well known German company who re-design ācopies ā of collectable synths ā .
UDO being UK (Bristol, a very expensive city to live in) based simply cannot compete in that mass consumer market .
UDO need to be making something for the future not trying to recreating the past, also they need to do all they can to make their existing synths the absolute best they can be, the completion is very fierce at all price points so a reputation of continues product support and development will always win market share from the many companies who just dump / abandon synths.