I'm a software developer right now but I've worked with DAWs as a producer for more than 5 years. You can't even imagine how frustrating is working with Digital Audio Workstation. One messy plug-in and you can lose hours and hours of work. Preset management is a nightmare, there are so many things that they could do to go forward, but the Sequencer market is stall and hasn't moved in years.<p>Imagine if they applied something similar to a git versioning system to music projects.... I don't even know if the VST interface can be used or if it's licensed somehow from Steinberg.<p>Also consider that there are no good audio drivers for Linux (like Asio for example) so you're almost forced to stay in windows or Mac...<p>No plug-in or DAW has a CLI... I could go on for hours...<p>I'm doing some digital audio processing for a startup idea and the only thing I've came up with is using sox trough a Python API.
damn, the audio wave visualization on the wires in the thing that's like the Bitwig grid editor is just BRILLIANT.<p>probably would be a bit much in a complex finished instrument but that's amazingly intuitive for the building phase, or for reading someone else's instrument.<p>i wish there a way to translate old Reaktor library stuff into more modern synth GUIs. there's some amazing gold in there but it is nigh impossible to understand between Reaktor's uh... challenging UI and the total lack of documentation for the signal paths to try and explain them to a relative novice. you can very easily see _what's_ built, but god help you try to understand why on your own without adding a ton of scopes everywhere manually
One more tool to play with - cool.<p><a href="https://non.tuxfamily.org/" rel="nofollow">https://non.tuxfamily.org/</a><p><a href="http://openavproductions.com/" rel="nofollow">http://openavproductions.com/</a><p><a href="https://kx.studio/Applications" rel="nofollow">https://kx.studio/Applications</a><p><a href="https://www.renoise.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.renoise.com/</a><p><a href="https://www.giadamusic.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.giadamusic.com/</a><p><a href="https://github.com/jackaudio/new-session-manager" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jackaudio/new-session-manager</a>
Discovered a few days ago another nice music studio of the same kind that I really liked : Sunvox
<a href="https://warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/" rel="nofollow">https://warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/</a><p>I'll have to try Bespoke as well ...
Really well thought out interface, looks super easy to quickly make a bunch of edits -- The SHIFT+Touch to connect modules is nice and I love that you can always just export the last 30 minutes. Looks like a ton of work went into the documentation as well -- can't wait to dive in!
Haha this is the most amazing feature matrix I've ever seen.<p>On a more serious note, modular music is an extremely interesting and growing area and just about every module is surprisingly expensive; I'm curious to how well this translates to virtual racks.
While I have used modern DAWs in recent years, the music making tool I've used the most was Jeskola Buzz[1], it's a weird mix of music tracker[1] and modular setup[2] (but not modular in the same way a modular synth works, you connect "machines" such as sequencer->generator->effect->[more effects]->mixer).<p>This was when I was a "poor" student and I couldn't spend money on music.<p>Later I could afford real modular/semi-modular synths and I enjoy them a lot but I still appreciate being able to connect cables on a screen where you can save the state and rapidly recall it, rather than having to free up a table, setup all the modular synths, connect them together etc. - So I think I'm going to enjoy Bespoke Synth a lot.<p>Another alternative that I have enjoyed is VCV Rack[3] and its little brother for iPad/iPhone miRack[4].<p>PS I loved the "Feature Matrix" on the Bespoke home page ahah :-D<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeskola_Buzz" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeskola_Buzz</a><p>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker</a><p>[3] <a href="https://vcvrack.com/" rel="nofollow">https://vcvrack.com/</a><p>[4] <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mirack/id1468259834" rel="nofollow">https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mirack/id1468259834</a>
Linked it to a mate...he had a wee geez :) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFcGtq_dM8k" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFcGtq_dM8k</a>
Very interesting. A possible improvement could be some "knob linkable objects" (can't imagine the correct name) that could be tied to analog inputs (GPIOs, ADC connected to i2c or USB, etc). The purpose would be to be able to modify certain parameters live on the fly, should anyone want to create a physical synth out of this software and a *PI like small SBC.<p>Also, I like a lot the way it links inputs and outputs just by dragging the mouse. Does anyone know if there is any general purpose library to do that?
I mean, Ideally I create some list nodes, then use that library to link them in a certain order by using the mouse.
This looks very interesting, checking it out now (download links were broken, but I found releases on github). For people new to this type of software, definitely also check out VCV Rack for a more skeuomorphic take on open source software modular.
Is there a modular audio environment like vcv/reaktor/max, where I could plug stuff together by typing text, instrad of mousing pips? I honestly tried to get into pd, but it felt like typing book using the character map.
It looks like the Linux Makefile is included in .gitignore<p>Linux build instructions would be great. I wasn't able to get the binary running on Debian 11 due to library version differences.
Can anyone in the know compare and contrast bespoke's feature set with Max for Live? (<a href="https://www.ableton.com/en/live/max-for-live/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ableton.com/en/live/max-for-live/</a>) It also has a circuit diagram-ish UI and supports scripting with Node. Put another way, does Ableton already offer Ableton smashed to bits with a baseball bat?<p>(fwiw, you have to pay for the $1k suite version of Ableton to get Max, so Bespoke could still be a great alternative even if they do a lot of the same things)
Paid my $15. Great effort. A bit cryptic, but a nice deviation from a standard DAW experience. A bit weird how a lot of things you would expect to be separate modules are combined (like LFOs are created by right clicking on parameters and filters are buried somewhere under "effect chain" module. Naming is a tad weird as well. LFO is LFO, but VCO is a sig gen. I get that it is not really "voltage controlled" but it has been an industry standard naming for decades. I will definitely play more with it and hope it matures.
Another instance where "Linux == Ubuntu". At least regarding the dependency install script which is just a bunch of "apt-get"s.
Sad that it has come to this.
This is awesome! It looks a bit like the love child between Visio and GNU Radio Companion re-spun for audio frequencies :-). I found the explainer video linked to the github repo[1] as a good way to figure out what its doing.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/awwbees/BespokeSynth" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/awwbees/BespokeSynth</a>
One thing I'd love to see in a DAW someday is houdini-like functionality. It'd be cool if there was this node-based environment that went a step further than just generating sound and could generate midi clips, automation clips, etc. and have it integrated into the DAW. Like you could see what was generated in the arrangement view.
I like it, I bought it! Lot's of nice features and a tweaky graph UI. Added bonus for implementing the "kissing nodes" connection idiom.<p>I would love see more prefabs, especially ones designed to emulate some classics synths.<p>It also might be time to add undo. Everyone (especially me) likes to save it for last.<p>Keep up the good work!
This is incredibly cool. Looking forward to loading it up.<p>Reminds me a bit of Reaktor's builder environment, but based on that demo video, it seems like a more useable, better thought out version (and you can't beat that price / feature matrix).
So this is of course very cool, but I would say that one of the main appeals of a hardware modular is the tactile nature of it. It feels very different to experiment with vs plugging virtual cables in software.
17 MB installer...<p>I've just installed it and wanted to try this Python live-coding but it crashes when loading the example file.<p>This looks all so promising, it could well be what I've been waiting for for years.
Is there a headless mode, for synthesizing sounds and performing FX, from an API? Or is this like 99.9% of music software that the authors assume only a human will be the user?<p>I've been doing research on music AI, inverse synthesis, and the like, and shockingly few open-source software packages were usable for creating training sets.
Never seen this warning from Windows before. Happened when I tried to download this .msi<p>Windows protected your PC
Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting. Running this app might put your PC at risk.<p>App:
Bespoke-Windows.msi
Publisher:
Unknown publisher
modular + live coding in a single environment sounds fantastic! To be honest even just another modular based DAW excites me at the moment, VCV is fantastic but like with traditional DAWs theres many different ways to break an egg
damn, I've been looking for something similar to Max/PPOOLL but more accessible (especially on windows/linux) after reading about Tim Hecker using it and this seems like it could get to that point