AudioMulch Roadmap 2009-2010

Your plate certainly looks full for the coming year/s!
I look forward to the outcomes of your labour.
All the best.

Great ! It looks so honnest and sincere.
Midi feedback would be very cool ! Same with patcher groups.
What do you mean by "Scala tuning tables" ?

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Nice.
( But, in addition with it, I would love too see everything controllable with a keyboard : 10harmonics, bubbleblower, bassline, file players, and combfilters. )

Thank you very much for sharing this with us Ross! My personal favorites among potential future enhancements are:

- More contraptions
- OSC control (iPod, Wiimote, Lemur)
- Macros/patch groups
- LFOs

Best,

Korhan

Loving your work, Ross. You've certainly got a full plate for the next 18 months!

On the contraptions front, some kind of 'one knob filter' (switchable HPF/BPF/LPF) would be excellent - I love simplicity, me.

Looking forward to a wonderfully well-thought-out relationship with Mulch in the future! My Mac thanks you, too.

For a 'one-knob' low pass filter, check out Ohmforce's Frohmage. It's free, can do spectral stuff and sounds wonderful. Available for PC and Mac.

2nd that about the Ohm force plugin. Also, the plans for the future of AM sounds great. I simply can't wait. New Contraptions will be fun to play with. Keep up the great work Ross.

soundunit

The roadmap looks great Ross! I was more or less hoping to see the LFOs higher up on the list.

If it was possible to use AudioMulch as a VST, it would be so amazing I think my head would explode. =D

"If it was possible to use AudioMulch as a VST, it would be so amazing I think my head would explode. =D"

This.

Keyboard control would also be quite wonderful.

According to me, MIDI feedback would be one of the most important thing to do. I make ambiant sets with a LOT of faders and setting them whan loading the song would be a revolution.

on the yahoo list the question of multi processor support came up. i didn't see that on the road map anywhere.

is this in the master plan someplace?

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on the yahoo list the question of multi processor support came up. i didn't see that on the road map anywhere.
is this in the master plan someplace?
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At the moment its somewhere out on THE HORIZON along with a number of other things which aren't listed on the roadmap. It may come sooner than that, but it's not strictly on the main-line master plan at the moment.

I understand that it's become a standard feature in some other software, but I'm not sure how powerful it will be in AM where it will not always be possible to load-balance contraptions across multiple processors -- that's something which is mulch easier in a track-based DAW where you don't have arbitrary linked networks with feedback etc.

---"but I'm not sure how powerful it will be in AM where it will not always be possible to load-balance contraptions across multiple processors -- that's something which is mulch easier in a track-based DAW where you don't have arbitrary linked networks with feedback etc."----

just to be clear (in my brain anyways) i'm assuming 1 CPU w/multiple cores is different than multiple CPU's in this regard?

thanks for the explanation btw.

ignatius: multiple cores or multiple physical cpus is more or less the same thing in this case.

ok. thanks Ross for making that clear

Hi All. I've revised the expected release date for AudioMulch 2.1 to approximately March next year, with the first beta at the start of February. Please see the following thread for more information:

http://www.audiomulch.com/content/audiomulch-21

Thanks

Ross.

Hello! Je regrette que AM 2 n'ai pas plus de sons disponibles et pas de nouveaux effets non plus. Il y a une barre de défilement sur les drums maintenant, c'est excellent mais il serait extrêmement judicieux de l'avoir aussi sur la bassline et arpeggiator de façon à pouvoir les caler entre eux. Les file players, ont ne peux pas les déclancher juste sur un temps (ou demi-temps), bref, on ne peux pas les caler non plus sur une rythmique. Et lorsqu'on met un morceau en automation on ne peux pas intervenir à volonté sur les file players, on est obligé de jouer avec le loop (qu'on ne peut pas caler). La fonction Rand sur les bassline ne peut être intégré à l'automation, c'est dommage! Voilà, en bon français, je râle... Mais c'est dans un but constructif, merci à toi Ross pour ce bel outil!
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I've attempted to translate lerouge's post. Apologies to all if I've made a mistake! (francophones - please feel free to correct me)

lerouge says:

"I'm disappointed that AM2 doesn't have more sounds available, or new effects either.
There's a scroll bar on the drums now - that's excellent but it'd be extremely useful to also have it on the bassline and arpeggiator in order to be able to link between them.
The file players: you can't trigger them on the beat (or on the half beat), and you can't sync them to a beat track(?) either. And when you put a sample into automation you can't directly control the file players – you have to play with the loop (which you can't sync up).
The randomisation function on the bassline can't be controlled via automation, which is a shame.
There you go, in French, I complain... But I mean to be constructive. Thanks to you Ross for this beautiful tool!"

Hi Kath,

Yes you pretty much nailed it.

Thanks for the questions lerouge, and for the translation Katharine :-)

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I'm disappointed that AM2 doesn't have more sounds available, or new effects either.
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I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "sounds" here. If you mean "samples and soundfiles" this was a concious decision to keep the download size small. I'm a firm believer that the artist should source their own sonic materials (whether with a microphone, a CD ripper, or google) ... although it might make AM more commercially fit as a one-stop-shop, I'm currently in the business of making software, not sample libraries. I plan to write a blog post about this soon but you can check out Resources > Links on this site for a few places to find free sounds/samples to use with AM.

The "no new effects" thing is regrettable but there are only so many hours in the day and I decided to get the core AudioMulch 2 capabilities working and in your hands before I start working on new effects (which are on the roadmap for this year)... otherwise you would still be waiting for AudioMulch 2.

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There's a scroll bar on the drums now - that's excellent but it'd be extremely useful to also have it on the bassline and arpeggiator in order to be able to link between them.
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Yes that's coming.

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The file players: you can't trigger them on the beat (or on the half beat), and you can't sync them to a beat track(?) either. And when you put a sample into automation you can't directly control the file players – you have to play with the loop (which you can't sync up).
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I'm not 100% sure I understand this. Perhaps it would be clearer if you said what you want to be able to do, rather than what AM can't do.

If you need beat-synchronised sample playback the Drums contraption (or perhaps the LoopPlayer) is a better choice. The FilePlayer is intended to be a free running contraption... like having a reel to reel tape deck (sure, I should add reverse and varispeed.. that may happen).

That said, you can automate a FilePlayer's Active property then you can start/stop the file relative to automation whenever you like (aligned to the beat or not). Combine this with checking the Auto Rewind check box and you can retrigger it any time. It is true that you can't do full DAW style soundfile region mixing, but AM is not a DAW :-)

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The randomisation function on the bassline can't be controlled via automation, which is a shame.
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Yeah, that's an interesting suggestion :-)

Best wishes

Ross.