Blue Weave

Over on the Blue 5alamander site we've announced Blue Weave, a synthesiser we're building. I've been working on parts of the synth for a couple of years off-and-on now, but for the past few weeks I've switched to full time on it.

A lot of the parts of the synth are already working, at least as far as audio output is concerned. But turning this into a product other people can use is going to require a lot of UI work to make a great UX. The additive sounds (with their accompanying subtractive parts and layering) work quite well and I've been using them to make new sound effects for Zeta 6 Survivors for the past few releases. The FM synth though needs a much more complex configuration that really needs to be viewed rather than read.

I think I'm nearly half way through everything I need to make an interesting first release of the FM synth, which is what will be in 0.1. I've spent very little time on actual audio output — it's all gone into UI work. That's good, I think — the UI has to be good — so I'm looking forwards to seeing how other people react to it when they try it out.