I am going in circles around this Audio2CV Pitch thing for quite a long time, I guess since release of the plugin. And while I am really interested in adding some synth sounds to my sound arsenal, I am still not really using it.
I see the following problems here:
1) while I find demo gsynth pedalboards to be really cool, there are just too much components.
I already have all the pedalboard space filled with two chains for dual mono stick processing, looper, recording, sequencer used as metronome, etc.
Adding this huge amount of very atomic CV plugins will turn my pedalboard into a chthonic mess completely. It would be much more usable for more guitar(or stick:) centric players if:
a) all this scary CV stuff could be packed into something more simple and monolithic, even if it would be a bit less flexible. One plugin that does basic synthesis based on CV pitch and Volume input.
or
b) CV synth stuff could be merged into some kind of āsubpedalboardā that could be used as a virtual meta-plugin. In other words, some set of interconnected plugins - in this case CV synth constellation, could be grouped into one entity, incapsulated, and hidden behind some abstraction level, with only some controls and inputs-outputs exposed. I believe this feature could be useful beyond gsynth, if āsubpedalboardsā could be shared between pedalboards , making pedalboards more modular and facilitating reusing not just plugins but combinations of plugins.
2)
Aside from the big amount of plugins on the same space visually, even adding gsynth stuff to my already existing main pedalboard is hard, too many plugins with too many params and a steep learning curve for CV. Basically it feels like you need to manualy place a dozen of plugins, with all interconnections and parameters, without really knowning enought about CV.
If plugins and their settings could be selected copy-pasted from the demo pedalboard to my existing pedalboards somehow, it could simplify starting using gsynth stuff a lot.
P.S. Considering something that could be done without platform improvements or new plugins - is it theoretically possible to recreate gsynth pedalboard as a Cardinal plugin preset? Hide all these vco/vcf/etc inside Cardinal, with only pitch/volume plugin kept outside?