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Helm – a free polyphonic synth with lots of modulation
- erikb 9y agoHave you ever heard of Kubernetes, a tool that is so much in the upswing that it dominated the last Amazon announcements, that Docker decided to integrate with it despite being its competitor in some regards, that hundreds of thousands of engineers suffer to use for some time now because our bosses heard it would be a cool thing at some conference (and bosses don't really care if such a software is finished or not)? If so, you might want to reconsider the name of your tool/framework/whatever, because the name Helm is basically taken in many engineers' head.
- yborg 9y agoThis may surprise you, but DevOps engineers are probably not the primary intended audience of this project.
- sicher 9y agoAnd another pretty big, and probably different, audience: https://emacs-helm.github.io/helm/ https://emacs-helm.github.io/helm/
- k_bx 9y agoI thought it's a fuzzy matching plugin in Emacs.
- rainbowmverse 9y agoI've never heard of this Helm. Meanwhile, Helm the synth has been around for a couple of years and seems to do fine among its intended audience (which I'm in). There's a reason trademarks tend to be constrained to specific markets.
- khedoros1 9y agoFirst commit for Helm: early November 2015. First commit for the synth: Mid-August 2013. First commit for the Emacs plugin: Mid-July 2007. If any of them should change, it's the ones that came after. But they aren't even remotely the same kind of software, so I don't see that it matters much. There isn't much room for confusion.
- rainbowmverse 9y agoI've been using this for a while (and occasionally post a preset on Patreon). This synth has some of the easiest to use built-in automation I've seen.
- figurehe4d 9y agoIt also works on linux! Which is typically slim pickins' for plugins.
- thecrumb 9y ago+1 for supporting Linux
- alifbae 9y agoopen source synths are always welcome! Great job
- fit2rule 9y agoThey sure are! Another great open source synth that is currently tearing up a storm in the music-making world is VCV Rack: https://vcvrack.com https://vcvrack.com This app allows one to create - quite reliably - a modular synth system of your dreams, with many emulations of existing hardware modules being produced by the designers of those modules, themselves! And .. there are more modules released every day. So many modules its hard to keep track of, actually. So, if you're a synth nerd, get a look at VCV Rack .. seriously with this and Helm, not really much point in running other soft synths, at this point! :)
- jolmg 9y agoThis is the third project that I've known with this name. The other two are an emacs incremental completion plugin: https://emacs-helm.github.io/helm/ https://emacs-helm.github.io/helm/ and a haskell functionally reactive game engine: http://helm-engine.org/ http://helm-engine.org/
- pgt 9y agoWould be awesome I could easily send it patches and MIDI messages from the browser via websockets to offload some of the heavier synth generation that the Web Audio API can't handle.
- stuaxo 9y agoThis might be juvenile, but is it only in British English that this name is funny ?
- stuaxo 9y agoI guess, much like GIMP the name will stick.
- martyvis 9y agoI'm guess I will have to look up the alternative definition, but to me, a helm is the facility full of the controls from which you drive a ship
- jm547ster 9y agoYep don’t get it either and British English is my native tongue. Maybe mistook for the phallic implication of “helmet”?