Re: [Bluemusic-users] Usability/documentation question for BlueSynthBuilder instruments

[Dave S. <da...@su...>]

Hi Steven,

Thanks for the clarifications.  I like the meta-information idea very 
much and will reply to that message directly.

- Dave

Steven Yi wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> 
> I found the email I posted a while back that I think if implemented
> would address your concerns:
> 
> http://www.nabble.com/Instrument-Meta-Information-tf3583671.html#a10013769
> 
> As for Mode6, I looked and sure enough it doesn't use p6.  I don't
> know why, but I never used Mode6 in a composition as I switched to
> Reson6, so likely Mode6 wasn't completed.  Most of the instrument I
> generally have all pfields dealt with at the top of the instr code.
> 
> For my instruments, I have format:
> 
> p4 - start pch or freq
> p5 - end pch or freq
> p6 - amp in db
> p7 - envelope (0 = ADSR, 1 = Triangle, 2 = Ramp up)
> p8 - space (-1 to 1, left to right)
> 
> then after that, my instruments can have additional fields (and still
> work with my orch composition library which I use).  So for the FOF
> instruments, p9 and p10 are start and end vowel, and I think it's 0-4
> for possible values, 0 being a, 1 being e, 2 being i, 3 being o, and 4
> being u.  So that should hopefully get you started with those
> instruments!
> 
> steven