GeneticModification for Synplant Now Available
Wow. it’s been a while since I posted anything on here. Here’s hoping this one is worth the wait.
I recently came across Synplant and have been using it in its three-week testing mode to see if I liked it enough for purchase. Short and sweet, it’s a pretty damned interesting a fun plugin to explore music.
While digging around in the software, I run across the fact that the Synplant patch files (called .synp) are nothing more than text with minimal formatting and settings for the Synplant application itself:
SynplantPatch: {
Version: 10
Implementation: 10
Name: "AZ Quartet"
ModWheel: 88.18897605 %
Rotation: 0.00000000 degrees
Tuning: +0.00000000 ct
Atonality: 7.26197660 %
Effect: 29.45638895 %
Release: 1.23537318 s
WheelScale: 41.46341383 %
VelSens: 50.00000000 %
Volume: -9.32751660 dB
“Well damn,” I thought to myself “I can probably write up a random sound generator with that”. So, with a bit of hacking and some Python, I did.
The resulting application is named GeneticModification for Synplant. It seems to work pretty much 100% with v1.0.1 (154) with no crashes or problems with the synth.
If you want to download and check it out, please get it from [[right here]]. You will need Python 2.6.1. To make it work, run the script by itself. It will create a new, randomly named patch for you in the current directory. Keep running the script over and over to make more patches to play with.
If you just want to check out some of the patches that GeneticModification makes, I’m also making available a set of free randomly generated Synplant patches. You can download the patches from [[download patches]]
That should be enough to get you running. Remember this script is extremely early in its development cycle, so check back to see if and when I get new features for it.
Enjoy the new sounds that it makes! If you end up making some great stuff, send me a copy!
Cheers,
tom
Quick Edit!
Since Python isn’t default on any Windows systems, I’ve lovingly hand crafted up a GM For Windows. This can help you out if that happens to be your OS of choice. MD5 is 67da86bce4841dc028bc48d1199029a1 and I’ve personally tested it on 32 bit XP without any issues.
Enjoy!