20100312 Breakpoint demolog, day 37: device automation goodness

Today’s been quite productive and I feel I have implemented the remaining “bare minimum” feature I [realistically] wanted to achieve for this demo: pattern automation! So now I can draw curves for any parameter in my synth, in any pattern, with them associated to an instance of Renoise’s Automation Device, and they will be replayed [...]

20100310 Breakpoint demolog, day 35: some pattern dynamics

Things have improved a lot compared with yesterday’s status. I have fixed several sound bugs and whatnot’s, and have added support for volume changes and note offs in the patterns. Silly as they might look, they actually are quite important :-) In fact, in what regards to volume (the volume column, more specifically) my player [...]

20100216 Breakpoint demolog, day 14: BASS… drum!

I finally decided to have a go and try updating the envelopes per sample and not per buffer, and what a difference it makes! Before, the transitions were quite rough. Now they are so smooth that sometimes I still can’t believe what I hear is my very own synth and not a sample :-P And [...]

20100215 Breakpoint demolog, days 12 and 13: more envelopes

Aha!! So you thought I was already abandoning, huh!? You couldn’t be more wrong! Although this has been quite a busy week-end, coming back home really late and too sleepy to type a word here, I still have dedicated few hours every day to the synth (before going out!). I have implemented the variable value [...]

20100213 Breakpoint demolog, day 11: Envelopes!

I finally got round to fix the timing issues I wrote about yesterday. So I can proudly say that the envelopes are back into shape! _o\ \o/ /o_ However, I’m not totally happy with these envelopes. Since I want to keep things simple –and editable with a simple GUI such as the one that Renoise [...]