Black Corporation Kijimi TouchOSC Bidirectional Editor v5.0

via https://synthnyc.com/


GENERIC FEATURES:

- Display parameter Name and Value

- Double click a slider or button to reset it to a default value

- MIDI data rate efficient: only sends a MIDI message if the parameter value is incremented or decremented by 1

SPECIFIC FEATURES (FW v2.0.0):

- 1 Editor Page for main, LFO and ADSR2 Common Program parameters (some Global parameters are also on that page)

- 2 Editor Pages for LFO and ADSR2 Individual Program parameters (and duplication of key LFO and ADSR2 parameters for a better workflow)

- 1 Editor Page for ARP and Microtuning Global parameters

- All 240 Program + Global parameters implemented in the editor. Program and Global parameters are bidirectional using CC and SYSEX

- MIDI Channel selection slider (this is the Kijimi MIDI Receive Global parameter)

- Bank (change) + Program (change) selection slider + buttons

- Buffer Request, Buffer Init, Buffer Write and Program Write buttons using SYSEX

- Hide / unhide specific LFO and ADSR2 features based on Common / Individual parameters selection (see video for a demonstration)

WORKFLOW 1 EDITING FROM PATCH (starting at 00:06 in the video above):

- Select a Bank & Program

- Press Buffer Request to load it to the editor

- Start editing (the loaded patch) on the editor (the Patch is edited in the synth buffer)

- Select a Bank & Program (Optional)

- Press Program Write to save it in the synth

WORKFLOW 2 EDITING FROM SCRATCH (starting at 03:56 in the video above):

- Press Buffer Init to send an init patch to the synth buffer

- Start editing (the init patch) on the editor (the Patch is edited in the synth buffer)

- Press Buffer Request to record it in your DAW / SYSEX librarian; or save it manually in the synth

- Press Program Write to save it to the synth

FEATURE REQUESTS / BUG FIXES:

- Go to the video Description on Vimeo

https://vimeo.com/1102655869

MOTIVATION:

- Consistent User Experience (no skeuomorphism): Color coding of synth blocks (VCO1 in blue, VCO2 in green, VCF in orange, etc..) which makes it extremely efficient and consistent across synths (rather than using different synth UI or dedicated editors).


- No 'Shift' Button: All parameters are laid out in one page if possible, on the editors.

- Parameter Name and Value: To precisely compare parameter values across synth blocks.

- Better Workflow: If possible, identical synth features are laid out one below each other or in the same order (if one next to another) e.g. VCO 1 and 2 Waves or ADSR VCF and VCA envelops enabling a faster editing / comparing workflow.

- WYSIWYH: What You See Is What You Hear. It’s utmost important that when a value is incremented / decremented by 1 (or next / previous value on a list) on the editor, the editor display changes the parameter value accordingly, so is the edited synth UI (if available and / or in the SYSEX patch if the synth has no UI) and the synth sound changes by this 1 increment / decrement. This is far from trivial, there are often many rounding issues probably due to various / different low level CPU calculations, that needs to be compensated in the editor code.

- Centralized Control: For home studios centralized around one Master Keyboard and all synths being desktop / rack.

- Physical Accessibility: All synths are editable at anytime right in front on the computer screen without having to reach up / down / left / right, etc...

- DAW Recording: It's very easy to integrate TouchOSC in a DAW if you want to record live synth parameter adjustments (and then play them back at will of course); compared to recording various synth parameters from their knobs / UI / dedicated editors.

- TouchOSC: OS agnostic; it runs on MacOS, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS and offers LUA 5.1 support with specific scripting extensions (https://hexler.net/touchosc/manual/script)

EDITOR QUESTIONS?

- NB: The editor is a TouchOSC template (.tosc file), it requires a TouchOSC license (https://hexler.net/touchosc)

- If Black Corporation Japan or anyone has some questions, please contact me via my website:

https://synthnyc.com

- Not for sale / no licensing at this point

Musically yours,

synth_nyc

synthesizer custom patches and bidirectional synthesizer editors

https://synthnyc.com/