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There is a new, very nice sounding open hardware FM synth running on a Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA chip that I really want to build (by René Ceballos, creator of z3ta+)
by dharma1 6y ago
There is a new, very nice sounding open hardware FM synth running on a Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA chip that I really want to build (by René Ceballos, creator of z3ta+) - https://www.futur3soundz.com/ https://www.futur3soundz.com/
But yes - it has 400 parameters, programming the sounds isn't going to be easy!
I wonder if you could use a neural network to map many parameters into a reduced set of useful controls. Advanced physical modelling synths can have the same issue - too many parameters to meaningfully control while playing.
- kmill 6y agoI'm vaguely remembering a talk I saw at Microsoft Research in 2013 by someone who studies psychoacoustics at a university I can't recall. They created an acoustic model that predicted certain qualities of a sound (wetness, harshness, brilliance, etc.), trained with data where subjects assigned such qualities on a scale for many example sounds. They used this to create 2D synth controls using the salient parameters. I believe this ended up being a somewhat popular VST plugin.