Hey guys, forgive me if I’m posting in the wrong place, but I have a talent for understanding audio very well. I just finished implementing a sequencer and a synthesizer in C, just for fun. Now that I’m done, I feel pretty good about this project, and I feel like there’s no reason not to keep going, but I don’t know what to work on next. I love free software, so I’d love to fill in the gaps that may cause a person to prefer to buy a proprietary synthesizer over downloading a free one. Do you have any ideas?

Thanks.

  • AstralPath@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 years ago

    If you are a guitar enthusiast, TuxGuitar could use some features to help it catch up to where guitar pro was at version 4. Not sure how feasible that is.

    Arobas has essentially rendered old .gp# tabs obsolete as their playback on new versions of GP is broken AF. Vibrato is weird, markers are bugged, its a bummer. I’ve been on GP5 since it was released and I refuse to update regardless of how “good” the new versions are.

  • mPony@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    well, as far as “proprietary vs free” software needs, there are very few free vocal tuning (“Auto-tune”) VSTs out there. It turns out fixing vocals is pretty important to all kinds of production, it’s not just for turning vocalists into robotic auditory paste.

    Tuners are just super useful tools to begin with. The math behind recognizing pitch is, evidently, rather tricky. (I have more than one guitar tuner that will take about a half-second to decide that my E string is tuned a little bit low.) So the first step would be writing a pitch detector and getting it to work on a guitar, and a bass guitar, and then a voice.

    Once you’ve got an algorithm for pitch detection working, then you’d need to get it to respond VERY quickly (which would take some next-level cleverness to do.) After that you’d have it analyze an input signal to graph what frequency the signal is at, and then choose which notes those frequencies correspond to. Those notes could probably be stored as MIDI data. By this point you’ve already achieved a “sing your own MIDI notes” VST, which I’ve already seen people asking for.

    Lastly you’d need editable parameters for each note (or group of notes) to describe how to adjust the pitch from the detected frequency to the desired frequency. One parameter is how quickly it changes the note (which gives that characteristic “robotic” feel that is just pervasive in pop music these days.)

    I think this could be a fantastically useful plug-in; it’d certainly be nice to have a useful free alternative for people who can’t afford hundreds of dollars of software.

  • AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I love the spectral view in Adobe Audition and would be happy to leave it if Audacity (or whichever fork people like) would implement something similar.

  • StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    For my needs, the music creation side has been fine, at least on Linux. Playback side… Yea, I miss WinAmp. Haven’t found anything even remotely close in Linux or Windows. Wasn’t quite the answer you were looking for though.

  • StorageB@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I can’t seem to find a decent simple open source guitar tuner app for Android