Option to make noise oscillator mono

[erroreyes]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe! There are some use cases when I need to have a mono noise signal for a patch that I am working on, and it seems that the only way to achieve that is to either set the global Width to 0.00%, or to choose one of the serial routing options. This unfortunately by doing so, one loses the ability to use oscillator unison with stereo widening on a patch.

Describe the solution you'd like: It would be great if there was an option in the oscillator's mix panel's context menu that would allow to toggle noise from mono to stereo.

Describe alternatives you've considered: N/A

Additional context: N/A

[baconpaul]

Oh that’s interesting - you mean the noise source in the mixer right the one labeled “n”?

we could easily put an rmb option on the noise color slider to choose mono or stereo - that would do it right?

[baconpaul]

The way to do this is

1. Put a deform option on noise color and add the RMB and stream it
2. Read that deform option in SurgeVoice into a 'is_noise_narrow'
3. Change https://github.com/surge-synthesizer/surge/blob/35318e3f685d75e0f0cb97e13b1c62d2d87b0280/src/common/dsp/SurgeVoice.cpp#L1046 to say

if (is_wide)
{
    if (isNoiseNarrow)
       tblockR = tblock
    else
       that code
}

and then test

[erroreyes]

Oh that’s interesting - you mean the noise source in the mixer right the one labeled “n”?

Yes, exactly.

we could easily put an rmb option on the noise color slider to choose mono or stereo - that would do it right?

That would work. Wherever it is most suitable for something like that to exist would be great. I thought about a width control for the noise source which would be super great, but for me personally, a simple stereo/mono switch is enough.

[baconpaul]

yeah we have a plan for "the future" which we call "XT2" which would have much more stereo control. in the XT1 family a mono stereo switch is easy though. We can add it as a small feature enhancement to one of our dot releases. (If you happen to be a coder I'm also happy to walk you through it but if not that's also fine).

[erroreyes]

Oh that would be wonderful. That said, I am mainly a Java person, I've been out of the game for almost 2 years, and I really don't want to be nuisance if this would be a lot faster to implement by the team. Otherwise, yes, I would love the experience.

[baconpaul]

Great this will be in a nightly later today.