@join said in Anyma Phi v1.0 public beta:

I'll add a new global setting, Expr. detect, that allows you to set the condition used by the synth to switch between expression CC and velocity envelope for the synth expression signal, with these options:

Could there be an option to use the CC as an envelope amount, for the velocity envelope?

That would give an extra control while playing with a keyboard, and allow for wind patches like staccato brass, where a fairly short attack and decay at the beginning of the note can be useful. If the CC can control the overall amount of the envelope, then it can still play as a wind controller patch, but have the added response to velocity, which isn't necessarily as easy to get by just tonguing the note.

Most wind controllers have the ability to send velocity, by measuring the breath strength at a fixed interval, shortly after we start blowing. Adding the option of a velocity envelope amount would let us make more use of that - the initial tongued "tuh" would trigger the velocity envelope with a different velocity, depending on how strong it was, then breath strength would control the level of that envelope.

Ideally, Breath should still be able to make the sound as loud as we want, so the envelope shouldn't be a limit... maybe have an option to make Breath add on to the velocity envelope, instead of multiplying it?

I think that's probably two new options :) Having it add would be the most useful of the two, I think.

@bibenu You're welcome :)

@mickglossop said in Email notifications from this forum:

Hi - is it possible to set up email notifications as/when anyone replies to a message one has uploaded?

Click on your profile, at top right, then choose Settings, on the menu that appears.

On the right of the Settings page, you should see some settings for Watch (e.g. tick both boxes and set Default category watch state to "Watching"), then a whole list of options for Notifications. You'll want to set some of them to either Email Only, or Notification & Email,as you prefer - the second one means it will also tell you with a pop up box, or some such, if you're currently looking at the site when it happens.

@mickglossop said in AnimaPhi Editor Import Patches / Bank doesn't work:

• When importing a patch, it seems necessary to manually select a new empty patch slot,. Otherwise the current slot will be overwritten. Please make the import command automatically load into a new empty slot.

Good point. Import Patch has now been added to the context menu for each patch slot, so you can say where to put it. That works for me, but maybe it should now also be taken off the File menu, so you have to specify where you want it to go.

@mickglossop Agreed. Being able to categorise patches by type of sound, and select them on that basis, would be a very useful feature.

Maybe add a favourites tag too, and make that one of the categories that can be chosen. Maybe have a category choice as a global menu option, with ALL, as a way of disabling it, then turning the encoder should select patches within the chosen category when it would normally work to select them from the entire list.

@join I think so, yes. The critical part is linear FM modulation, rather than exponential frequency modulation - which is what happens with VCOs on a volts per octave scale. If they can do that, then we should be able to make 2 or 3 operator FM patches.

@jls said in Feature request - some tips:

• piano/epiano physicall model
• brass physical model

A brass model would be great to have. An electric piano model would be good too.

The DX7 has effectively been done for the Korg Minilogue digital engine, and Korg NTS-1, but it requires a lot of parameters to specify an FM sound, so the real difficulty is in providing a user interface to make use of it properly... plus there might not be room in an anyma phi patch to store them all.

The Yamaha PSS-480/580/680/780 2-op FM is still a lot of fun to play, and can make some interesting sounds. That takes a much smaller number of parameters to define a sound - there's, I think, 10 via the front panel, and maybe 30 to completely describe the patch, in an editor. That's probably closer to what can be done with the anyma phi patch structure, if you separate out the envelopes from the rest of the two operators, and then have two or three linear FM oscillators (not operators, because they wouldn't have their own envelopes), which are able to be modulated by another.

@deepsea said in Anyma Phi v1.0 public beta:

@join said in Anyma Phi v1.0 public beta:
Indeed, my DAW was running in the background. Closing the DAW and hence freeing the MIDI ports let me connect to the Anyma and finally enter the editor. Cool, what an easy solution.

FWIW, in Windows 7 when a MIDI device can't be opened, it's usually because the application that had it before hasn't shut down properly - i.e. even once you know to shut down other things. that doesn't always solve the problem. With USB-MIDI devices, it often helps to unplug the device, wait a moment, then plug it back in. That tends to let the problem program finish shutting down.

If it still doesn't work, you'll probably see the guilty application is still there, showing as a process in Task Manager, or something more user friendly like ProcExp64. Sometimes it's not possible to terminate the process from one of those two, in which case it might be necessary to reboot. If nothing else works, rebooting always gives the MIDI device back so you can use it again.

@mimj44 said in Anyma Phi v1.0 public beta:

Pourrais t-on obtenir des démos et/ou tutos suite à la 1.00, car je suis un peu dépassé, malheureusement. Merci, Jérôme.

Good idea. Demos and tutorials, especially of the new features, would be great.

@join Yes, save on the File menu of the editor, immediately after import, works too.

FWIW, I had one patch that seemed to have imported okay, without needing to save it to get it to play properly, but after clicking a different one then coming back to it, it sounded like the default patch again, so I imported it again.

The Save Patch function would be good to have on the context menu for the patch slot too. It doesn't seem to logically belong on the File menu, because it applies to saving from memory in the editor, to memory on the synth, without involving the computer's filing system... plus, while it needs to be used to make sure an imported patch is saved, it's more convenient to right click on the patch slot, than to reach for the File menu, though hopefully that won't be needed so much, after this version.

Having Import Patch on that context menu for a patch slot would be good, either way.