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holy shit -- watson I did have lots of plans for that day...but they all got scrapped and next 7 hours I spent somewhere between imagination and meditation. -- Louigi Verona !@#*!&@^#*!&@#!!!!!!!!!!!! -- Aaron Wolf, Music teacher & scholar. That said, watch for about halfway through the video for things to start to get interesting. Initially, its just some sine waves. "Yeah, whatever... another..." You skip ahead in the transport. Then big clusters of resonators start moving around, which should make at least a few sound designers say, "Hmmm...," an evil grin appearing in the corner of their mouth. -- Peter Kirn, Create Digital Music Greatest thing ever posted to WATMM -- destroyeraseimprove This is awesome! It's a much, much better way to make polyphonic chords with many voices than drawing on a piano roll. Also, the waveform editor is fantastic...so much more flexible than the usual sine, square, saw, etc. drop down menus on most synths. Really great work. -- mccephalopod Analog synthesis is dead. -- Jack Hertz, Synth Me Your drones kept me captivated throughout that entire video. What a powerfully simple UI! -- ralphbluecoat Thank you Sir, for din! ...from an electronic/digital music enthusiast. New din fan. I just wanted to let you know that I have enjoyed the drones demo many times and cannot get over how wonderful it is. Just now the Bezier waveform demos are jumping right out of my tiny laptop speakers! It has the familiarity of other musical instruments but also the excitement of something really fresh and very fantastic. You must be proud. You have developed a 'sound' for many artists to engage with and bring great music to the world. ...therefore, I'm going to save up my money to buy a computer (a laptop - so I can bring din along with me wherever I go). I will dedicate the computer to Linux, and finally learn a bit about that OS. I'm not a computer programmer, so I know I will have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get there, but I look forward to the reward of playing my own copy of din. Thanks again for your gift to the music world. -- Jack Coghill, via e-mail. The first Linux synth I've come across that might meet [Brian] Eno's definition of an instrument as something with properties that the body can learn but the mind cannot. -- Paul Davis, author of Ardour and JACK An amazingly complex piece of software that looks like a lot of fun to use. And its [GNU/]Linux only! -- Tuxradar Podcast How can I use this on OS X? -- deathcannon I've installed it earlier this week and I'm very impressed. I'd like to congratulate you on this fresh and simple approach, and also on an original user interface which, like real instruments, has to be learned. To me din feels live, like an instrument to be played, whereas most software synths feel like switchboards with discrete states to be activated/deactivated, the restrictive paradigm of the 12-note keyboard imposing its rigour. It's the difference between singing lyrics and typing them on a typewriter: the content is the same, but the difference is astounding. -- Mirjan Milovanovic, via e-mail. This is really awesome and innovative. And I can instantly imagine different ways I could use it. This just makes me wonder why I still haven't installed Linux...Your work could just be the thing that finally makes me do it. Great job, and lots of respect for making it free. -- klbcr I would hug you for a Windows port. -- vortex222222 Saw this on Create Digital Music and was blown away. It's one of those things that appear so obvious and simple in terms of interface that only a genius could design it. This looks so amazingly natural to use and the sound is out of this world, not through hi-fidelity but through the interaction of the harmonics. This creates something wonderfully complex from such a simple source. It's squares on a screen and it's perfect in every way! -- flujotech Great software man, very unique and stylish! -- felix-2 We are pleased to announce that the Pixelache Software of the Year 2012 title is [this time] given to din is noise and will be featured at Piksel through a workshop and presentation. din is a Free software musical instrument exclusively for the GNU/Linux operating system made by the Indian programmer S. Jagannathan. din is noise presents an innovative way of generating live music from a simple visual interface based on Bezier curves, and is a good example of how creative and DIY technologies can foster new approaches and solutions that escapes the leading rules of the software industry. -- Pixelache Network I think jag is really showing what Free software art should be about by doing it. -- Alex McLean, Livecoding pioneer & co-founder of TOPLAP VERY cool..I've been daydreaming about something like this for years! -- DelKoening I love the UI. -- pinnelar Wow, great stuff. Such a visual sound experience. -- anonymous Thanks for din. All said in the subject. Just to shout some respect. -- Pedro Lopes, via e-mail.