Re: [Om-synth] performance questions

[Dave Robillard]

On Wed, 2005-09-11 at 12:26 +0100, Atte André Jensen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 1) I have three usb keyboards (simple evolutions, no split stuff) that I 
> use to trigger live. But often I need to use more than three sounds in a 
> song. Before om/lash I routed midi from a keyboard into the python 
> script midisplit.py, but I suppose that wouldn't be session-able with 
> lash. What are my options if I want to save/restore all songs with 
> splits from lash?

Very soon you will be able to just just load a midi splitting plugin in
Om.  See below.

> 2) I often need to adjust volume of individual patches per song. So if I 
> use the same patch in more songs, changing the volume in one song 
> affects another song. A way (and what I do) is to save different 
> versions of the same patch, one for each song it's used in. But this 
> means that improvements to one version of the patch isn't propagated to 
> other songs that use it. Is there a way to be able to adjust volume on 
> loaded patches and save/restore this with lash?

"Presets" are something I've been meaning to add to patches for a while.

> 3) It would be nice to be able to a) assign the knobs on the evolution 
> to some parameter in a patch, b) load the patch, tweak the knob, save 
> the patch and c) the change is still there when the patch is loaded 
> again. Is that possible? Something like accessing the values of nodes 
> from a midi-controller, I guess.

Anything and everything MIDI has been completely gutted and overhauled.
Yes, this will be possible, when I get around to it.

I'm extremely busy with Life In General right now, so polishing end user
things like this isn't going to get done at the usual pace.  Everything
you mentioned is definitely on the list though (and bumped accordingly).

As a taste of what's to come, so things don't sound so dead, the next
release of Om will be drastically more efficient in almost every
respect.  CVS is already significantly better, but there's more to come.

-DR-