@CassD I don't see my ads as a direct path to purchase. I do them to raise awareness of my brand and products. So I'm not too concerned about tracking ROAS.

I don't do any special offers, sales or shouty stuff in the ads. They're just simple videos showing the plugins playing through some of the presets. I just want to put them in front of people who might like them. Then let the plugins do the rest.

Targeting

I originally had quite a few DAWs and other very specific niches in there but a few months ago Meta did away with most of them and folded them into more generic categories.

Here's the targeting, same for both my ad sets (images and videos).

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Meta is pushing everything towards fully automated targeting and audience selection anyway, so I'm not fighting it.

I do turn off all of the AI-assisted ad 'improvements' though. I don't want them putting different audio on my ads 😂 or any of their visual additions.

Here's the link to my ads in the Facebook Ads Library, so you can see how boring they are. 😀

Response

I started on £10/day to test the waters. I saw an uptick in revenue after 2 weeks, so I doubled to £20/day. Saw another uptick so after another 2 weeks I doubled again to £40/day. It's been on that for almost a year now.

I did a test in Feb where I increased to £60/day for a month, but saw no significant change. So I dropped it back down to £40/day.

Part of me wants to spend more time creating new ads and testing different campaigns, and the other part of me is completely icked out by the whole thing! 😜

I think when I've moved from Gumroad to my own site, or Moonbase (looking more and more likely) I'll revisit the whole ads setup and get a bit more involved. But for now, the £40/day budget gets me a decent amount of revenue, so I'm happy leaving it as is.

Hope all this is helpful in some way, and possibly even encouraging that ads can work and don't have to be complicated.

@jonthecomposer After the Parametric EQ you’re using, add another Parametric EQ and enable Spectrum analysis in it. Turn off the Spectrum analyzer in the first Parametric EQ.

With a button, you can easily bypass the second Parametric EQ you added. This way you can also turn the analyses on and off.

@David-Healey Thank you so much, it's working. Really thank you, I am learning. I am going to import like this everytime

@dannytaurus Nice! Checking this asap 👍

@ustk ahh. makes sense. Thank you.

bump bump - need mouse scroll callback on panels

Solved, HISE_BACKEND_AS_FX was disabled by default in the plugin version of the Jucer. Shouldn't be...

@Christoph-Hart Yes it an embedded network, very simple, in the scriptFX

What about your snippet that I can test on my side?
And are you on windows or mac? I wonder if the difference can lie there... Especially since I have a straight crash with VST3 while AU, at least, can load

@David-Healey I have not sorry, gonna spend all 5 hours on this. Thanks!

@David-Healey Ok , thanks

@Soundavid Yeah presets are limited to the factory until the expansion is loaded if I remember correctly. I have a series of open PRs that add more functionality for working with expansions.

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@TalesOfAudio Press F1 in HISE to view it offline - needs to be downloaded first time.

@David-Healey I have tried it on the latest commit but the problem is still there.

@Christoph-Hart I think not. As this is showing up in HISE as well as compiled plugins.... see my posts at the start about using Console.print to tell me whats happening...

Sent you the project link to your email

@ulrik of course. Git is the single tool across all software development that pays off. I couldn‘t imagine doing any non toy project without version control. How are you tracking your progress?

@David-Healey yep great, and dumping the quarantine worked for me so thanks.

@Christoph-Hart said in Recent commit to Processor.cpp breaking old project:

Also the script is completely empty, all you're doing here is declaring some parameters in the XML.

Not sure what you mean

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@Christoph-Hart not that I'm aware of, I didn't even know this macro 🤷♂
I checked and it's 8 as it should...

@ulrik sure