Hey folks
As we head into the holiday weekend, we got a few of the new 2.1 modules in pretty good shape in the beta, if you happen to want to play around with some software. A few things
We’re tagging new modules “Alpha” or “Beta” on their faceplate for now.
- “Alpha” means we have some substantial DSP we may want to work on still or may need to change parameters or so forth. if you use it your patches might break with a future version.
- “Beta” means we have the DSP wrapped up we think, and the parameters and so forth correct. If you use it your patches may break with a future version, but we would feel really really badly about it and say something.
- In both cases, we have UI and Panel work to do which may change labels and displays but not DSP or routing. And in both cases we don’t have anything in the manual about them yet.
The four new modules we have are
- “Quad AD” - a set of four independent AD or AR envelopes which you can use as you see fit, complete with polyphony, modulation etc… There’s also a little fun secret sauce of inter-triggering you can use for fun if you want, with the lights between the triggers; or you can do subsequent envelope sums with the lights between the outputs
- “Quad LFO” - a set of four simple LFOs with a variety of shapes. The real fun here is the LFOS can be independent but we also have a set of modes where you set phase, amplitude, rate offsets and so on. The LFO modes contain all the expected shapes, but also include smooth and S&H random and a random trigger which triggers with density based on deform.
- “Tuned Delay +” - this came from a conversation with @DaveVenom in the original massive Surge XT thread. It takes the tuned delay from 2.0 (which is still in the module set) and expands it in a variety of ways, including having modulatable offsets, offsets per channel, an attenuated feedback input so you can make KS models without a separate mixer, an excitation source, and an inline pair of filters on the feedback path. You can do a lot with this - build physical modeling synths, flangers and choruses, and more.
- “EGxVCA” - (This one is still alpha since I need to do some performance profiling especially on the pan implementation). Basically this one does what it says on the tin. It has an EG. And a VCA. The EG has an ADSR gated and a DAHD triggered mode and various other fun features.
We are still figuring out a release cycle and have a few other unstated modules in the 2.1 milestone, but these four I think are ready for folks who want to beta test.
To beta test is pretty simple. Just download the nightly here and put it in your plugins dir. If you want to go back to 2.0.3 just delete plugins/Surge XT and redownload from the library. And the changelog is reasonably up to date here