My new plugin/app, Rhapsody, is finally released into the wild!

https://librewave.com/rhapsody/

https://youtu.be/F_uNx2GlZZU

I'm currently building an app which I hope will allow batch exporting of HISE projects, auto notarization on Mac, and auto-generating installers. So far I have the basics working on GNUx. I need to finish the interface and add the batch handling, but that shouldn't be too difficult, then I'll tackle the other platforms.

This app should make it much easier for everyone (and especially beginners) to export their projects from HISE and build installers.

This is what it looks like so far (it's an ugly work in progress).

https://youtu.be/7i1vdOz3PSI?si=ZdTWoSeg_gNx4EFY

The AudioDevSchool site that I've been putting together for the last few months is finally ready!

For the initial launch I'm starting with a single course that I'm calling The HISE Bootcamp.

The course is 100% free and is designed for beginners, although there's probably stuff in there that more experienced users will also find useful.

The videos walk you through the process of building two simple plugins with HISE (a sample library and a scriptnode effect). We then move on to building HISE from source and compiling our projects.

Along the way we'll cover a bunch of subjects from basic things like finding your way around the HISE UI to more advanced concepts like Ad-Hoc codesigning for testing your plugins on MacOS.

Here's the link to the course: HISE Bootcamp.

Feel free to share it with anyone you think would find it useful.

Please let me know if you run into any issues with the website or any of the course material - there's usually something that goes wrong on launch day!

@MikeB

Dave, 34, UK, doer of many things.

It's becoming hard to find VS2017, I can no longer see the community edition at Microsoft's website, only a pro version trial.

@Christoph-Hart Is it possible to bring HISE into the new decade and add a VS 2022 export option?

I know we can already use VS 2022 with a bit of fiddling around, but it's not straightforward and requires additional steps for every export.

With HISE reaching its 10th birthday recently I thought it was a good time to look at some of the commercial plugins that have been built with it.

I've put together a little blog post and video featuring some of the plugins that have stood out to me. See if you recognise any of them.

https://audiodevschool.com/a-showcase-of-hise-plugins/

It's starting to look a little nicer now.

Just wanted to share something I'm working on. It was briefly discussed last month here.

It's a grid based layout system, inspired by html and other layout languages. The idea is you define your components once in a JSON type format, pass it to the layout engine, and it will do the rest. It can layout components in a vertical or horizontal stack, or use a flexible grid.

If no dimensions are passed components will stretch to fill the available space. Dimensions can be passed either as numbers or percentages relative to the parent/column/row.

By default components are centred horizontally and vertically within each grid cell but you can specify their alignment (top/bottom/left/right). For stacks components butt against each other, I have plans to add some alignment options here as well though as well as margins/gutters.

If you want to add multiple controls you can define one control and specify a number of clones, and they will be created and positioned automatically.

I think it will make it easier for me to transfer layouts between projects as well as quickly build complex projects. I have a lot more functionality planned.

A couple of years ago I proposed making a general purpose downloader/installer app. In the time since I've created a downloader/installer for my own libraries and it works really well. I thought I'd see about adapting it to be an option for more developers.

I'm currently prototyping some things but before I get too deep with it I want to know if any of you would actually use it.

Unlike other similar apps (Pulse, Conduct, etc) what I'm creating is decentralized. Your customers will log into the app using the account they have on your website and downloads will be served from your servers. The app will of course be free software.

The app is more limited in scope than those other options. I don't intend to include an integrated shop and I don't plan support for non-HISE formats - but who knows what the future will bring.

The benefits for you is it's very cheap (you don't need to pay a middle-man), you don't have to develop your own downloader, new customers will discover your products when exploring other plugins available through the app, it's HISE focused and will support expansions and additional presets, etc..

The app supports serial keys to limit access to downloads. It does not (and cannot) provide any DRM but you can include this in your plugins if you wish.

It can integrate with any website, you just need to setup some endpoints and make sure they return the correct data. If you're using a Wordpress/WooCommerce site I can (for a fee) supply you with a Wordpress plugin that will integrate seamlessly with the app - this is the plugin I'm using on my own site.

So is this something any of you would use? If so I'll continue developing, if not then I won't bother, I don't want to be the only one using it :)

Here's a preview of where I'm at with it.

https://youtu.be/SeetYsUX9YQ

@pcs800 I found two related threads that might help

https://forum.hise.audio/topic/7976/wrap-midi-node-in-compileable-dsp-network
https://forum.hise.audio/topic/4364/snex_node-needs-to-be-wrapped-into-a-compileable-dsp-network

@Felix-W Yes, check out the preload callback

@Oli-Ullmann Yeah create a separate user settings for this. I believe there is an example in the snippet browser or in the docs.

@Oli-Ullmann Are you adding it through scripting? What do you want to add?

@JamesC

Combine the prev/next button actions into a single function, no need to repeat the same thing twice.

Here's an example of doing it with presets
https://youtu.be/rCJ0ljwzXjc

if (currentReverb == "")
{
    rvbfilename.set("text", currentReverb); // This is the same
}
else
{
    rvbfilename.set("text", currentReverb); //  as this
}

ConvolutionReverb is an audio sample processor.

getCurrentlyLoadedFile this function only exists for audio files, not audio sample processors.

@JamesC said in Custom Display panel questions...:

getCurrentlyLoadedFile

What does this return?

Also, both clauses of your if statement do the same thing.

Still broken

@ScreamingWaves Oh yeah it's a sampler, so you need to convert the value to a gain factor because it uses that unit instead of dB. However I wouldn't set the sampler gain dynamically like this because you might get audio artefacts. Instead use a Simple Gain effect, it has smoothing applied automatically and it uses dB.

@ScreamingWaves said in Empty slot for combobox?:

it basically loads the first file anyway, so the last file of the list won't load.

Yes you will need to handle that in your script because all the indexes will now be shifted by 1.

inline function onComboBox0Control(component, value)
{
	local smpRoom = Synth.getChildSynth("smpRoom"); // This should be a const in on init like your reverb.

/*	if (value > 0) // Combo box values start at 1, not 0.
		convRev.setFile(irs[value - 1]);
	else 
		smpRoom.setAttribute(Gain, 0);  // "Gain" is not a valid constant, this is covered later in the course :)
*/

    if (value > 1) // 1 is now the empty slot
    {
        convRev.setFile(irs[value - 2]); // Subtract 2 because we have an empty slot in position 1
    }
    else
    {
        smpRoom.setAttribute(smpRoom.Gain, 0);
    }	
}

@ScreamingWaves

What about

ComboBox0.set("items", "");

ComboBox0.addItem("Nothing");

for (x in irs)
	ComboBox0.addItem(x.replace("{PROJECT_FOLDER}").replace(""));