Brother Gregory theme support

[Sahul-GitHub]

Hello. I was wondering if it would be possible to add support to load the graphics resources from the Brother Gregory.dll plugin as an alternative ‘Gregorian theme’ for MonkSynth.

I understand there may be legal implications, as Brother Gregory was not freeware like Delay Lama, but a Steinberg product included in a very old version of Cubasis from over 20 years ago. However, it has since been discontinued, so it’s hard to imagine that linking to or reusing those graphics could cause any harm.

Jorge

[JonET]

It's a fun idea. I don't have a copy of Brother Gregory to mess with though, so I don't know how 1:1 it is with Delay Lama's assets. I really want an original default theme at some point. Maybe before going to v1.0. I either need to learn some Blender or commission something.

[JonET]

One thing is, I couldn't distribute those assets, since I don't own them. It'd have to be an import process like with Delay Lama, or a third party theme you could download.

[JonET]

I don't know if you've seen this yet, but it's quite lovely and inspiring for perhaps a unique theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=proM3Sj6boQ

[Sahul-GitHub]

It'd have to be an import process like with Delay Lama, or a third party theme you could download.

I guess it would be a great solution. I can send you the Brother Gregory.dll if you want to experiment with it. I've inspected both dlls (DL and BG) with a resource viewer, and they both look very similar. In fact, the image assets have the same names. The only difference I noticed was that the Brother Gregory GUI is a bit smaller, and also it doesn't use an image strip for the knobs, but a single graphic that is rotated. I also extracted the assets to individual png fles.

[Sahul-GitHub]

I don't know if you've seen this yet, but it's quite lovely and inspiring for perhaps a unique theme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=proM3Sj6boQ

That's very nice, indeed. Delay Lama seems to be specially fun for children. My six-year-old son cracks up when he watches the monk’s different expressions.

[JonET]

If you want to shoot it to me jon@jetaylor.net I can look at it

[Sahul-GitHub]

I’ve finally sent it to you via WeTransfer.

[JonET]

Got it! Thanks.

[JonET]

This is interesting. It's not just a Steinberg clone of Delay Lama, it's a plugin commissioned for Steiberg by Audio Nerdz and clearly based on Delay Lama. With some DRM to lock it to Steinberg hosts.

[Sahul-GitHub]

Great. Thanks for taking the time to have a look. Yes, it’s certainly a collector’s item.

[JonET]

So I've worked down the differences between DL and BG in terms of sound. Formants and what I'm calling the "aspiration" frequencies are different. So I'm thinking I'll have some parameters to morph between DL and BG style output.