New SpinCAD Designer release with major usability improvements

A comment about the new Faust Compressors. I had been looking at this article at the Spin Knowledge Base:

Spin Semiconductor - Programming the FV-1

Spin Semiconductor designs and markets specialized mixed signal integrated circuits for the consumer music and audio industries
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I pointed Claude at this and said "make a block and show me its response". It was nothing like what you'd expect from a compressor. The notes talk about the controls being "interactive" - like when you adjust your monitor's red, the blue changes also and when you adjust blue, green changes too. This is a recipe for frustration and after 4 hours I knocked it on the head and pointed it at a couple of Faust compressors and said "how about these" which it did perfectly on the first try. The tradeoff is that they take around half of the available instructions.

This made me realize how unique the FV-1 really is - it does some things really well, others not so much but kinda sorta. Given how much of my life I've devoted to it, it's hard for me to say bad things about it.
 
DL - what are the "S/O Clamp Tri", "S/O Clamp Sine", "S/O Range Tri" & "S/O Range Sine" blocks in the 'phaser-modulation-test.spcdj' patch? I seem unable to find them on the menu in the 1069 release. Are those just part of a special test?
 
A feature question:

Is it possible to integrate a simple Delay again ?

Sure it''s good to ave some very tricky delay modules, but I think for beginners (like me)
things would be easier if there were basic/tutorialType modules in each applicable categorie ..

Best regards
 
Cybercow said:
DL - what are the "S/O Clamp Tri", "S/O Clamp Sine", "S/O Range Tri" & "S/O Range Sine" blocks in the 'phaser-modulation-test.spcdj' patch? I seem unable to find them on the menu in the 1069 release. Are those just part of a special test?
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That was a patch that Claude created and he managed to give the blocks individual names, which is not generally possible directly in the program. S/O just means scale offset.

HarryR said:
A feature question:

Is it possible to integrate a simple Delay again ?

Sure it''s good to ave some very tricky delay modules, but I think for beginners (like me)
things would be easier if there were basic/tutorialType modules in each applicable categorie ..

Best regards
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Well, OK, in the meantime, there's the three-tap delay that I use even when I only need one delay. If I implement a single delay it's going to be that with the other two taps and control inputs missing.

Thx!

DL
 
Wow! All these changes and additions are definitely pumping new life into SpinCAD Designer. Loving the new features. So much more to explore, learn and play with.
 
I am trying to resist the urge to add more blocks in favor of documentation and actually trying out some of these new ones to make them usable. Please keep the comments coming, even if you are confused about something.

Thx,

DL
 
Sure thing DL. For one, can't get the Ambience block to produce an ambient-like effect. Sounds more like tiny tank. Do you have an example?
 
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