ROADMAP.md

Roadmap

The stars in parenthesis are an evaluation of the difficulty.

ForSynth 0.5

Development

• Add tests. (**)

Features

• A function converting dB to linear scale would be useful to set the sound level. (*)

Examples

• Simulating a radioactive decay, heard with a Geiger counter (a tribute to Kraftwerk). (**)

Documentation

• A first version of a FORD documentation. (**)
  • Transforming comments into FORD comments !>

Fix

• The problem of the Shepard–Risset glissando. (***)

Ideas for further developments

• Add more audio effects

  • Compressor (**)
  • Expander (?)
  • Flanger (**)
  • Phaser (***)
  • Chorus (***)
  • Reverb (***): https://freeverb3-vst.sourceforge.io/
  • Could Doppler effect be used to obtain a Leslie speaker effect?

• Examples

  • Synthesis: a bell (**)

• Find algorithms for good drums, especially bass drums.

• Physical modelling (***)

  • Using https://gitlab.com/certik/stringsim ?

• Soustractive synthesis: add filters (FFT?) (***)

• A drum pattern object to ease programming rhythms, inspired by the pattern system used in example/drum_machine.f90. Could be also used by ForMIDI. (***)

• A note sequencer repeating a pattern. Could be also used by ForMIDI. (***)

• A sequence object, accepting a string with notes, with methods to obtain one by one their parameters (physical or MIDI). Could be also used by ForMIDI. (***)

  • The sequence could for example be coded as "A4,Q.,pf;A#4,Q,pf;..." (note, length, intensity).

• Scientific data sonification: by reading a data file? or by passing an array? (**)