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Right, I think we can conclude this app isn't for you. Instead of being extremely insulting to the developer of this particular app, an app that is obviously being liked/loved by many, and which appears to the be an alternative answer to most threads in this forum, and which works on every platform known to man I think you should have just moved on.
The things you write I doubt you would say directly to the face of someone in real life, and yeah, I know you've said you are in a grumpy mood, but that isn't an excuse that holds up for being directly insulting for very long IMHO.
I don't know if you have a hobby pet project or a work product that you have worked on for countless hours over many years, but I do suspect that if someone said the equivalent of your comment to that (possibly fictional) product directly to you, it wouldn't leave you with happy energized feelings, and thus I found your description of this very hard-working and accomodating (solo) developer, who regularly and frequently updates his app(s), unfair and unnecessarily mean. Get a refund, move on, but at least try not to hurt people.
I didn’t say I didn’t like it. It’s quite a useful suite of tools. But yes, of course I’d say that to someone in real life. Design is paramount, and there’s an excess of good designers around to ensure there’s no excuse for putting out what at first appears to be shit even if it turns out to be shit hot.
Thanks , that's a really useful overview
) I've seen a few vids , but frustratingly many have no marration , so are difficult to follow , I'll check the manual and delve further into YouTube .
I've since managed to make a bit of noise with it , but sometimes I'll make a change to a module and the sound disappears , even tough it's still connected to an output . User error I'm sure lol
Personally I think the UI is good , everything's easy to move around and resize . Not keen on the graphics / style of the app , but it's perfectly usable
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@carol & @skiphunt, have you checked out the tutorials from SolarLune?
They are not brand new, but that is ok. Also, he is showing it on a desktop, but again, as the interface is exactly the same on all platforms (including PalmOS, Maemo etc) it shouldn't matter too much.
Thanks, yes I’m also exploring those youtube tutorials. They’re quite essential (otherwise you’re basically playing a lottery). As you can all probably tell, I’m quite intrigued and nearly hooked on this app, hence my quite positive and detailed coverage of my experience with it thus far. If I didn’t get on with it at all, I’d have dropped it after 20 seconds never to return, as was the fate of so many other apps we all accidentally purchase and regret — this one isn’t a regret.
I notice this only links to the first video in a series of 24 tutorials (where he goes through most of the modules).
This is the link to the actual playlist, if you open it on YouTube (lets hope this doesn't turn into an auto-embed link):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJh6yiKPqE4&list=PL62F503E7722DB7CC
That's the channel I watched a vid on to figure out what the "multisynth" module was for. Clear & to the point.
off is off
got the desktop version to check it out (someday, maybe), so I don't mind that much
Great stuff , I'll watch those tonight thanks
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Been watching these tonight , really good - apart from the odd difference in buttons lol ! Managed to put together a very simple sequence though
The more I play with it and figure stuff out, the cooler it gets. There's another video that I think someone here did that shows the process of loading up a synth in AB, then SunVox in the FX slot, then adding a generator, input, output, etc. and using SunVox's tracker and sequencer. Short video, but really helpful. Did that one this morning.
I did run into one weird thing that I can't figure out.. if someone else has a clue, I'd appreciate it.
Added an LFO module in the same scenario I just mentioned above. Somehow, I must've touched something that collapsed the LFO module down to a tiny blue square... that I couldn't expand back out, couldn't select or delete. Had to start over. It still looked like it was linked to my input/output too. Just turned into a little blue square. If I tapped on it, SunVox would just create another module. Baffled, but maybe it's just a weird glitch. I think it happened like this one other time though.
It's a strange one . I've been messing around with it for a couple if hours and come up with a fairly feeble sounding thing , which would sound ten times better in gadget . Funny thing is I really enjoyed doing it tho but maybe the novelty will wear off in a week or two lol !
Be nice to have some preset instruments to play with , as well as the demo tracks
There are some preset instruments! When you click to add a module, instead of selecting one of the synths, effects, keyboards, generators, etc. hit the "Load" button at bottom right, you'll see "instruments". If you don't see them, hit the little house/home button and you'll see "instruments" and "examples", there are several decent instruments in there including strings that sound pretty decent.
You can also import old tracker samples, properly looped and mapped already, can't remember the accepted formats, it'll be on the SunVox wiki. There is a TON of free downloads of these online.
Well, on and off I’ve spent more or less the week learning and using Vnu-Sox. All I can say is, I now understand it, pretty much all of it (that can reasonably be absorbed in a week, including the manual from start to finish).
I’ve never actually used a tracker before but I’ve seen other people use them and now I’ve used them. They’re a piece of piss — i.e. quite easy and very quick to get some sort of data into them (not necessarily related to a melodious idea, but guaranteed to put enough notes into positions of usefulness to sound busy when played). The parameters other than note value are quite straightforward (if you know hexadecimal it’s not a problem at all, if you don’t, then go away and quickly learn it, come back in about 5 or A minutes and you’ll be flying through it) entering plausible values into columns and pretending not to be surprised when you play it all back.
The synths are the let-down. They’re connectable, not modular. I spent most of my time in the spectral generator and the FM generator. The spectral generator is quite limited in scope and ability. It’s an interesting sound by itself, but it’s not really much use for in-depth synthesis. There’s so much I couldn’t do with it but expected to. Similarly the FM offering. A case in point: I wanted to construct an eight operator FM synth to do some decent synthesis. I can connect an FM synth generator to another FM synth generator. Can I make the output of one be the modulator for any of the (only) two operators within the other? It seems not. It seems that they can connect but not use the connection. Thus, the FM will always be limited to 2 operator. Similarly, the filters are all very digital sounding and theoretical in approach (no matter what mode or slope or order), making them not nice to use. Similar for most of the other units. Nowhere near enough parameters, and nowhere near enough interconnect-ability within and between the components of one generator or effect to another, except via the final output of the unit.
But apart from all those aspects, it seems a nice enough fun little program for people who want to make music that sounds like more than video game music. It is self contained enough to spend a whole commute within it alone (if you’re one of those still with a job), and pick it up where you left off next time, and that’s surely a good thing.
By the way, it and Virtual ANS are no longer 50% off anymore (does that mean they’re 100% on again?).
I'm not a seasoned music appaholic quite yet, but the more I learn.. the more I'm impressed with what's possible using only Sunvox.
virtual ans would be awesome if only it was easier to get images in.
I had written these off as chiptune pleep ploop bs initially, but I now know they are capable of so much more.
@u0421793 glad you've got over your initial hysterical feelings about __n___ .
Although it does get some of the traditional synth concepts a little confused there are often other ways to scratch a particular itch. I am attempting to attach a file with a couple of examples for you.
The FM modules are limited in isolation but you can combine them with the modulator module, in phase modulation mode, to get some fairly complex waveforms. Also, the standard generator module has an input for frequency modulation which can take the output of other generators or output from any other module.
https://dropbox.com/s/nc77rndxol9opob/eight%20thingy%20synth.sunvox?dl=0
Note: can anyone tell me how to attach a file rather than having to link to Dropbox?
Took awhile, but once I got that it was the best laugh I've had all day.
Unless I'm misunderstanding, I think you might have missed the Modulator effect.
@u0421793 you can connect as many synths and fx together as you like, to make one big sound is that not modular? Also you can customise the ui to suit so statements like
are just plain arrogance. I'm sorry u0421793, not after a fight but how can you say something is s**t, when you don't know about it !!
SunVox is amazing and it may take more than a week to realise its full potential. You wouldn't pick up a guitar for the first time and say its crap because it won't do 'Stairway to heaven'.
Don’t be so stupid, of course it takes more than a week to realise its potential. However, in this week I’ve demystified it (no thanks to the dreadful UI) and come to realise what it actually is. It’s, as I say, a fairly capable set of little synth units, each with significant limitations, but combined supplying a fairly rich choice of methods. The pattern sequencer is nothing strange (what sequencer isn’t strange (okay, GarageBand, and that’s why I think a lot of GarageBand criticism happens, because Apple have “de-fear”ed the sequencer for the people)) and the timeline hooks together patterns, in a not dissimilar way to a lot of sequencers.
However, my opinion remains that the UI prevents the product from being accessed at first, and for a long time holds back adoption because people simply won’t use it, they open it, prod about at it for half an hour, and put it away again for a year or so. This is simply a design failure. Any normal person would agree.
The notion that “Sunvox is amazing” is the problem here. It is not a fucking religion, it’s just an app — a program — that does a few things in an integrated manner, held back by an idiotic layout and presentation, but once past that, provides a rich technical environment up to certain limits.
If you can connect several discrete synths together, as we all do, then that alone does not make them suddenly a modular synth. I think the problem here is that the people who view Sunvox as some sort of belief system have incorrectly called it a modular synthesiser, which it simply is not. There are discrete modules, but there are also whole synthesisers, in exactly the same sized boxes. There is a tendency to pack too much functionality within each box, in doing so pre-connecting and pre-deciding the routing within each box, so that the notion of a module is no longer true. This is not a modular in the true sense at all. It has an impressive amount of interconnect-ability, and you can draw connecting lines on the graph, but seriously, that is not a modular.
I’ve now made a decision. I simply do not want to be like the sort of fanatic that uses and defends a program such as this. I’m not going to use it again. It’s a good program, and if you can get beyond the tartan swatch upon opening, it’s surprisingly capable, but the people that use it, no thanks. Not for me.
Thanks, much appreciated. I’ve downloaded it and I’ll take a look at it next time I use it. Ta.
That's a learning curve as some might say, but some might say I'm normal ! Like I said the ui can be customised, colours, shadows, size etc.
It's not the be all, end all of apps but it is extremely flexible in many ways. That's partly why it stands out more than most apps to me. Even more so than GarageBand.