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@Conquistador wrote:

Would Synthmaker also simplify the development of zplugs for you?

No, although Synthmaker is equally suited to create effect plugins. One problem with Synthmaker plugins is that the plugins take a relatively long time to initialize when loaded. Having maybe more than one hundred Synthmaker effect plugins in an arrangement could lock up Podium for a long time when enabling power.

Synthmaker is ideal for me to create synth plugins, since they often require a large editor window which would not fit as an embedded zPlugin editor in the Podium track inspector anyway.

Are you considering selling Nucleum as standalone too? Perhaps this would shed some light on Zynewave too.

Maybe. That depends on what you guys think about the sound. If it is good, I could try to set it up as donationware, and with a separate download. Synthmaker also has the option to create a standalone exe of the plugin. I’ve tried this, and the feature of zooming the entire UI to full-screen looks sweet on a 1600×1200 20″ display 😀

It’s certainly also on my mind that the plugin could be a good way to draw attention to zynewave.com and Podium.

@jpleong wrote:

It doesn’t look “Zynewaveish” enough! There’s a charm to gain/pan knobs you designed for Podium and I would much prefer those to the “brushed aluminum” look you have here.

The knobs I’m using so far in Nucleum are the default knobs that comes with Synthmaker. I could spend some time trying to customize these, but I don’t want this project to steal away too much time from Podium development. I can always refine the knobs later on.

@Podianer wrote:

I would like to see a random button that randomly creates a sound..

I hope to add such a button in the center of the feedback orbs 😉

I have yet to figure out how to do this in Synthmaker.

@rinxai wrote:

Usually with FM synthesis, one can define some kind of algorithmic relationship between operators such as A+B+C or A*B+C etc, providing for more possibilities in sound shaping (Hexter has choice of 32 algos). Perhaps something like this is already in Nucleum?

No such algorithm selector in Nucleum. My design goal was to keep the synthesis parameters to a minimum, and to try to avoid “type selector” parameters.

In Nucleum you have three operators/oscillators which produce sine waves. That’s what you set up in the left side of the operator section. The middle orbs tries to visualize how each operator feeds its output signal back as a phase modulation, either as self-modulation or to the neighboring operators. The volume knobs on the right side sets how much each operator is routed to the two filters. It’s a simple setup. Only you can get very nasty sounds if you overdo the phase modulation feedback.