[sdiy] For you FM synthesis fans

[Andrew Simper]

On 18 November 2014 06:50, Ben Lincoln <blincoln at eventualdecline.com> wrote:
> It's too bad Sound Diver disappeared after Apple bought it. It was much
> nicer to work with than the hardware controls on a lot of 80s/90s synths,
> and sometimes even enabled functionality that wasn't possible otherwise,
> like giving full control over the Juno 106 engine hidden in the MKS-7.
> Obviously there are individual software editors for a lot of synths, but
> having one application that supported all of them in a common format was
> really great.

Sound diver has now been replaced by things like Ctrlr, which is a
plugin written in Juce that you hard wire to a dedicated midi port to
control hardware via midi sysex. Here is a module my friend Jase wrote
for the MKS-80 http://ctrlr.org/author/jasefos/

This offers a much neater workflow since all settings are saved with
your project and automation is done via regular host automation.

Andy