Yoshimi went to SynthFest

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Yoshimi went to SynthFest

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http://synthfest.co.uk/2017/09/26/synth ... ngs-synth/
to be precise :)

Now I had intended to go there anyway and drool over all the fantastic kit (like I did last year), but happened to wonder out loud what the punters would think of Yoshimi. I knew that one of the people in the group I was in at the time helped out at the event last year, but didn't realise how far up the ladder he was until I got an invite from the organisers to take Yoshimi along - oh, and a stand would be available free of charge!

So my first reaction was... Panic!

However, one of Yoshimi's little band of helpers put together some flyers, and an A4 display that I printed out myself and took, along with the latest version of Yoshimi (1.5.4) on a reasonably good laptop, a 49 note keyboard and a BCF2000 controller. The venue supplied a pair of very nice speakers.

There was a lot more interest than I expected. Many people were quite stunned by the range and depth of sounds possible.

Solo was liked by a couple of musicians that play live sets.

Our MIDI-learn implementation was much appreciated. The effect of being able to use the BCF buttons to switch engines on and off... also within kits surprised a few :)

There were several seriously good keyboard players putting Yoshimi through it's paces. One guy *really* got into 'Overdrive' with some great riffs including tasty use of the pitch bend control - would have loved to record it!

One blind guy was being taken round by a friend. He played a few notes then asked whether it could be connected to a screen reader. I was rewarded by a big smile when I said it could :)

Fewer people than I expected seemed interested in creating their own sounds, but those interested where highly appreciative of the different engines, kits and crossfade - with one 'fuckin hell' when the guy mentally put together all the possibilities!

There were also a couple of 'Wow's when I showed the demo of Yoshimi being set up and run entirely from a MIDI file.

Everyone who started changing instruments/banks seemed to immediately 'get' the structure and the MIDI relationship.

Several people picked up on the idea of running Yoshimi headless as a MIDI controlled synth 'module'.

There were a few calls for an OSX version - strangely none for Windows.

Just one person when told that Yoshimi was Linux only, rather rudely said "Well, it's useless to me." and walked off.

Finally, I had printed 30 flyers - only 6 remained!
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Dun no why, but nearly any post from you brings a smile on my face, thanks for that. :D
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Very cool. Congratulations on the success!

folderol wrote:
Just one person when told that Yoshimi was Linux only, rather rudely said "Well, it's useless to me." and walked off.

Ha. I'm sure he'll be asking his buddies about Linux before the week is over.
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folderol wrote: Just one person when told that Yoshimi was Linux only, rather rudely said "Well, it's useless to me." and walked off.
To be fair, I say the same (hopefully not rudely though!) for anything not available on linux. Often even to things on linux that use the "wrong" license. ;)
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Thanks, Will, that's a great report on a great synth.
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Awesome! It's a great synth indeed!
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Thanks for the encouragement people.
I quite often refer to "Yoshimi's little band of helpers". Well, that band has 20 members. Some have contributed a lot, and others maybe just one line, but without them Yoshimi simply would not be where it is now.
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Re: Yoshimi went to SynthFest

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'smee again :)

I've just been sent the link below. It's a lightning tour of what (mostly) the hardware guys are up to.

https://synthfest.us13.list-manage.com/ ... b3550a737b
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