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No normal person can make new devices because you need Scope and money and time and programming skills, and if you had all of that you probably wouldn't bother to build devices for Pulsar anyway...

But imagine this: you build your own custom patches in Modular2, design a graphical "overlay" to sit on top, and save it as a new unique-looking device like the Inferno or Saturn or any other soft-synth you'd like to name.

In a few weeks they'd be hundreds of great new devices all with incredible, modern designs and great looks - everything from super-sleek little one-oscillator jobs to drum machines and lush soundtrack monsters.

Pulsar would be a world-beater. They'd be devices everywhere made by all sorts of people: rich and poor, young and old, people right on the edge of new music.

It would also mean that Modular2 would get a real work out and Creamware might be inspired to really pump it up with some new modules. Everybody wins !

I really beleive this could catapult Pulsar back where it belongs - on top !

What do you all think? Does anyone know how technically difficult it would be?

cheers,
Spirit

Sounds a bit like Reaktor. Also sounds a lot like a good idea.

Nice idea.

Creamware has run a Modular2 patch contest in the past, and has taken the winning patch and done just that: Created a device out of it.

Also for a small fee, people with SCOPE would probably do this for you, I think Zarg Music even has a statement to that effect on his website. There are other people around with SCOPE too.

Now, that was the most brilliant idea this month (and maybe even last month too !)

I know that Zarg offers to create a device from your homegrown patch, but he also has to live, and cannot do this for free.
This probably hold most people from doing it.

Now, creating your own could be fun, and could help yourself and others to use the devices and functions of the brilliant modular more, because, let's face it, it's not easy to overlook, even with out cables !

Sure, we would see a flood of very similar devices in more or less outrageous/useless disguises, and sure, the technical problems are probably massive, but I still think it's brilliant !

Cheers
Stubbe

Here's a link to the <a href=http://www.creamware.de/en/Home/news/05 ... sp>winning Modular2 patch</a>, I wonder when we'll get to see the "final" version of this.

Modular2 does rock, easily among the best digital modulars around. Personally I prefer the sound over the Nordmodular, a lot more variety, and a decent Delay Module :]

Does anyone know how technically difficult this would be? I fugure you'd only need a few "connector" routines to handle:
Knob: 0 - 10
Knob: lfo rate
Knob: -5 to +5
Slider: 0 - 10
Button: on/off
Button: hpf/bpf/lpf
Waveform: select (for multi osc)

The theory is that you'd click on the ModV2 button or slider; select the approproate "connector rountine"; then click on your graphic element.

Well, something like that anyway. I'm not a programmer. maybe someone who is can comment please?

cheers,
Spirit

Yup, you can do exactly that - it's called Scope/DP. I don't think Creamware will be giving a cut-down version of /DP software anytime soon, perhaps in the very, very, very distant future.

Why not I wonder? Too hard to program or would it just annoy the people who'd spent up on Scope?

I can see all the free devices just waiting...

I gues the free devices will eventually be the main problem why this won't happen. How would you feel if you got a Scope, make devices, sell them online to re-earn the money invested in your scope card. Then Creamware releases a cut down version of it. And lots of people develop their own FREE devices (which might be as good as the commercial ones) and no-one will sell his/her devices no more, resulting in a fall of sales of the Scope. So I guess it won't happen.