Post anything you’d like to see added to Modular Play in this thread.
There are some things that might seem obvious but that just can’t be done with the Playdate API (like proper modular synth style audio routing), at least without significant effort, but there’s a lot of scope to expand this toy too.
I would like to see the option to have gates and note data separated from each other, and a sequencer with reset input from a gate, along with pure gate sequencers. I think this would go a long way to add to the modular feel even if complex audio routing is not a possibility. Looking forward for its stability to get better so I can test it out more thoroughly. Thanks
I would like to have a play and stop button, so you can have the clock stopping or running. Or am i missing something, that its already there.
And is it possible to have internal modulation in a synth? For example, a prepatched (within the synth) LFO that modulates the preset choice (or something else fun like a filter or release, yours to choose)
If you click the yellow hardware menu button that will suspend the entire app. If you mean suspend a particular clock - that’s not available but you can do it with a switch instead.
Lots of synths have params you can hook up to an Oscillator to do what you describle - more customisation will come over the next few months too.
The problem is the Playdate is single-threaded, so any slow down on the one and only thread affects everything, including the timers/clocks. I am thinking about adding external midi clock sync which would make the timing precise, but it would require a little technical know-how from the end-user (it would use a small Processing.org project as an intermediary bus between the host system, and the Playdate: https://github.com/orllewin/playdate_midi_bus - you can already use an external keyboard with that, but if I can find the time will add midi clock too)
the play date audio device maintains its own time separate from the standard clock … I wonder if this is affected by frame rate slowdowns?
https://sdk.play.date/2.2.0/Inside%20Playdate.html#C-sound.time
Yeah, I’ve tried this, kinda got it working in a demo: https://github.com/orllewin/playdate_posync
May I get a shortcut to saving my project?
Idk if it's bc of it being early development or that I have a Rev B model, but it constantly crashes when adding/removing nodes.
Having to scroll to the top of the list to save only to go back down in a bit tedious with how much it crashes.
If there was a faster way to save, even if its the PD menu
Oh, and perhaps a toggle to load the previously used project upon startup would be nice.
I've made some nice sounds with this and would like to continue but it's crashing so much that I end up loosing both progress and motivation. :'(
