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

Rhapsody – Libre Wave

(librewave.com)

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).

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.

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.

I've made a few additions to the preset browser which some of you might find useful. These are available in my fork and I've also opened a pull request for Christoph to merge them into the main source. Nothing I've done should break anything although I've made the favourite icon in the preset column take the text colour instead of the highlight colour which may be important to you. Really I'd like this to take the itemColour2 property but haven't figured out how to do it yet.

Added Data properties to:

• Show/hide the Add, Rename, Delete buttons
• Change the bounds (x, y, w, h) of the search bar
• Add vertical padding to the rows of each column. Fav icon in preset column is not affected.
• Apply vertical offset to y position of edit buttons, so you can move them up. The list box is adjusted accordingly.
• Apply offset to bounds (x, y, w, h) of the list boxes, so you can make them shorter, longer, fatter, thinner, etc.

Also

• Fixed a bug where selecting or deselecting an item in the expansion column didn't clear the other columns correctly.
• Use column area instead of list area for painting the column background - this might have the effect of visually shifting the edit buttons down slightly (they are actually in the same place but will look lower) you can counteract this with the edit button vertical offset property I added.

@bendurso said in Webview Doesn't Work on Compiled Plugin in Windows:

const var webroot = FileSystem.getFolder(FileSystem.AudioFiles).getParentDirectory()

This will return the app data folder in the compiled plugin.

@pcs800 Yeah if they are in the same chain then the signal will be processed serially. You could try using send effects instead, or use scriptnode for parallel processing.

@pcs800 If you want to only use images you'd need to include all the values within the film strips. It would probably be better to use a combination of the filmstrip + laf, although it's not something I've tried.

@JamesC I have a video on my Patreon page showing a script that will automate the codesigning and notarization process - https://www.patreon.com/posts/osx-codesign-and-65785381

However, don't use the script until you can do it manually, but the script itself provides the step by step process.

@Chazrox Your snippet doesn't work here, it's looking for external files. You'll need to post the project with the audio files.

@Chazrox I'm not sure you can use containers in effects projects, can't remember though. Try making a simple test project.

@daniloprates You probably don't need a keypress callback for this. Just use the regular control callback and enable "updateEachKey" in the property editor.

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@cassettedeath You need to include the .dat files from the PooledResources folder in your installer and place them in AppData.

https://docs.hise.dev/working-with-hise/settings/project.html#embed-audio-files
https://docs.hise.audio/working-with-hise/menu-reference/export/index.html#export-pooled-files-to-binary-resource

@cassettedeath Yeah I don't know what the global app data folder thing is for, except to cause headaches :)

@cassettedeath Switching computers just complicates things. But yeah, clean the build and delete the app data folder.