>The typical audio synthesizer has large number of parameters which are difficult to tweak.
Really? If you know about synths then it isn’t really that difficult. You have one or more sound generators, sine wave, saw tooth, etc. You have attack (how fast the sound reaches full potential), decay (how long that sound is played before it drops to sustain), sustain (how long the sound lingers), release (how long until the sound fades away to nothing).
You have filters for the sound, low pass, high pass, distortion, etc. that process the audio into output audio.
It’s basic sound engineering. However, using a neural net to find interesting combinations and be able to label them would be really fun to build a catalog of dreamscapes or tones.
If you’re interested in doing the tweaking, sculpting your own set of tones traversable by one or a few sliders is doable with Rebecca Fiebrink’s “wekinator” , which gives you a GUI for “recording” that catalogue. Not sure if a similar M4L device has come out since.
OPs project looks like a cool way for plugin devs to make a demo slider.
Reminiscent of Aphex Twins' AI patch generator:
https://magazine.raspberrypi.com/articles/aphex-twin-midimut...
Wondering if its as fun to listen to the generation process as I imagine ..
This is cool! I'm unfortunately not skilled enough to be a user, but enjoyed poking around the repo and seeing how things worked.
>The typical audio synthesizer has large number of parameters which are difficult to tweak.
Really? If you know about synths then it isn’t really that difficult. You have one or more sound generators, sine wave, saw tooth, etc. You have attack (how fast the sound reaches full potential), decay (how long that sound is played before it drops to sustain), sustain (how long the sound lingers), release (how long until the sound fades away to nothing).
You have filters for the sound, low pass, high pass, distortion, etc. that process the audio into output audio.
It’s basic sound engineering. However, using a neural net to find interesting combinations and be able to label them would be really fun to build a catalog of dreamscapes or tones.
There are enough synthesizers that work in a rather different way. E.g., FM is notable for being hard to grasp.
Sustain is not time, but level. How long the sound lingers before hitting release portion of the envelope is determined by how long you "hold the key"
If you’re interested in doing the tweaking, sculpting your own set of tones traversable by one or a few sliders is doable with Rebecca Fiebrink’s “wekinator” , which gives you a GUI for “recording” that catalogue. Not sure if a similar M4L device has come out since.
OPs project looks like a cool way for plugin devs to make a demo slider.