I'm pleased to announce that Archos AppsLib users can now use a specially-crafted Synthulator with their Series 5 Android device. The new version takes advantage of its big ol' screen and has onscreen controls. It also supports grouping and editing drums as a kit (currently fixed at one kit). That was bothering me no end.

Just a quick update to let you know how the Synthulator project is getting on. My apologies for keeping quiet, it has been rather busy at Castle Glastonbridge. Basically, up until now Synthulator has been what's called a "Minimum Viable Product," meaning it's been knocked together as quickly as possible to prove that it can work. Now it needs to be a Decent Product, and this is quite a different beast.

Yay! A look-and-feel update! You can now use the menu buttons and whatnot to carry yourself around the app. I hope it is easier to use, let me know how you find it. Thanks to AKA and ChewyChompy for their suggestions!

The help page has lost all its nice images, alas. Later on this week I'll try to update it to be a little less terse.

Sorry the updates are a little thin on the ground at the moment. Hopefully sometime soon I'll be able to grab a day or two to put in some more Awesome.

Love and peace and all that,

Alex

There's been a bit of a delay between updates, and this has been due to the masses of other things going on at the same time as writing Synthulator. Fortunately, I seem to have survived the worst of it and am back writing synthesizers. Look! There's an analogue synth on Market! And its source code is available here! As well as compatibility with LADSPA, I've done my best to get rid of the load/save bug, and fixed the sample tuning somewhat.

This is a trivial bugfix release, caused by some simple errors made when uploading v0.2. It no longer crashes quite so much!

Yay! It's finally out there, though it's full of bugs. You can make nifty wee riffs and loops though, and that's something.

To get up and running, go to the Market app on your Android phone and do a search for Synthulator. There should only be one result, Glastonbridge = us :)

For a quick-start guide, go to the quick-start page and do that wee tutorial there.

Top tips for avoiding crashes at the moment:

if you've just re-loaded a saved song, hold your breath and count to 20 before pressing the play button.

It didn't take as long as I thought. Now, back to writing the actual Synthulator...