With Aalto and Kaivo presets I start unplugging cables one by one (usually from right to left lol) until I’ve stripped it down to minimal functionality. And tweak as I start plugging them back in.
Yeah, it’s not an ‘immediate joy’ synth for me either, like the other Madrona stuff has been. Also it absolutely punishes my old computer, which has put me off using it a lot. I think its strengths are going to lie in using Vutu to make partial maps and then mucking with the resynthesis. But I’m happy to own it after the fairly long development period.
what I’d really like to see is some tutorials that take maybe each module and explore a bit of sound design with some basic elements. it’s so easy and fast to stack complexity, that it can get unwieldily to understand exactly what you’re doing. I quite like plugins or synths where you load up an init patch and then find those few controls that do something quirky and spend time learning the tools that way. What’s super interesting about Sumu, is that all the patch cables are like virtual 64 channel cable looms, with loads of info getting sent through them. Building some vanilla patches and then just cascading all that multi ch info is mind boggling in itself.
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One of my criticisms of it is that some cables actually aren’t multichannel (pitch and gate for instance), and there’s no visual indicator of the difference. The only way to know which ones are is to RTFM, or use the scope to test them (even then it shows a multichannel signal but with all channels the same value, so it seems to upgrade a single channel signal when connected to a multichannel input).
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Not sure if it’s Black Friday sale or something.
Currently $129
https://madronalabs.com/products/sumu
(just for the record, i am interested but not for another year perhaps)
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it’s still the intro sale but also i think because V 1.0 was released.
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