What about creating a poll (maybe on the Facebook Audiotool groups) to see which new device(s) the community would like to see implemented the most once the devs have finished completing, debugging, stabilising and officially releasing Next? The options could be taken from relevant topics in the "Feature requests" board.
I feel that as the app gets more complete and complex, new devices will be more sophisticated and costly to develop. Therefore it makes sense that some thought is given to figure out which device the app needs the most, where to put the effort and which idea to prioritise.
I think that a clear first candidate would be either a dedicated "piano" synth with a limited amount of "bread and butter" presets (piano, organ, strings) either modelled or sampled, or a general "keyboard" sampler including a piano preset. I for one would vote for a well featured, dedicated limiter, to help in mastering.
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sounds good and fun
i feel like the poll should be done on this
www.strawpoll.me/
Can voters add their own poll options here?
i don't know
No, strawpoll doesn't support adding additional answers.
To be honest, though, implementing polls directly into the Audiotool board would allow everyone's voice to be heard and a better maintenance on keeping people from spamming or voting multiple times. (i.e. https://www.audiotool.com/board/feature_requests/adding_anonymous_polls )
However, if that can't be added by the time Next is relatively stable, then I'd opt for Facebook, however it's be less efficient.
impose a spam sending limit, that would reduce ollie to tears
A keyboard sampler would be gold!
Thanks for this comment. I posted this a few months ago and in the meantime I've come to realise that, like you say, most non-developers on this platform might not be in a position to understand what should be developed next, how and why. There was another interesting discussion a while ago about soundfonts and this might be worth exploring in the future, especially for a General MIDI kind of synth with very few parameters that provides easy, bread-and-butter sounds, especially useful when song-writing. But I completely understand that the way AT works, anything involving samples is complicated. Probably the best way to go right now is with synthesis. For example, for a dedicated "organ" or "electric piano"-type easy synth. I am amazed and really grateful for the latest mastering suite of devices that you are developing. They are really useful.
I agree with your limiter idea
Yes a sampler would be great, but we can already use the MACHINISTE for that. I do not think we really need it.