Hello!

I thought that maybe for some this Inno Setup script could be useful. It installs the plugin + samples automatically on the user's computer.

It does the following:

1. Asks the user where they have their VST3 plugins folder. {commoncf}\VST3 is selected by default, but the user can change it.
2. It then asks where you want to install the samples.
3. And finally it creates the LinkWindows file with the chosen location of the samples.

(In this case I also added the file "AudioResources.dat" so that it is automatically installed in the userappdata folder)

In this way, the user simply opens the plugin and already has everything configured.

Paying attention to the * symbol at the end of the source file location because it includes the folders inside the selected folder. For example, inside the "D:\Downtown Grand Piano\Samples Folder*" location I have the folder called Downtown Grand Piano Samples. Inno Setup will include the folder inside “Samples Folder”, which is "Downtown Grand Piano Samples" (You can check the Inno Setup documentation if you need to understand this better.)
Then the linkWindows file is autogenerated with the location chosen by the user + \Downtown Grand Piano Samples at the end.

(I received help from GPT to automatically generate the linkWindows file, although it took me some time to make it work properly)

[Files]
Source: "D:\Downtown Grand Piano\AudioResources.dat"; DestDir: "{userappdata}\ZAK Sound\Downtown Grand Piano"; 
Source: "D:\Downtown Grand Piano\VST3 File\*"; DestDir: "{code:GetVst3Directory}"; Flags: recursesubdirs
Source: "D:\Downtown Grand Piano\Samples Folder\*"; DestDir: "{code:GetSampleDirectory}"; Flags: recursesubdirs createallsubdirs

[Code]
var
  Vst3DirectoryPage: TInputDirWizardPage;
  SampleDirectoryPage: TInputDirWizardPage;

procedure InitializeWizard;
begin
    SampleDirectoryPage := CreateInputDirPage(wpSelectDir, 'Select Samples Directory', 'Where would you like to install the samples?', 'Select the location where you want to install the samples (2.58GB). You can use an external drive if you have one.', False, '');
    SampleDirectoryPage.Add('');
    SampleDirectoryPage.Values[0] := ExpandConstant('{commoncf}\VST3\Downtown Grand Piano');
    
    Vst3DirectoryPage := CreateInputDirPage(wpSelectDir, 'Select VST3 Directory', 'Where would you like to install the VST3 file?', 'Select the default location of your VST3 plugins. In most cases, there is no need to make any changes.', False, 'Size: 29MB');
    Vst3DirectoryPage.Add('');
    Vst3DirectoryPage.Values[0] := ExpandConstant('{commoncf}\VST3');

 end;

function GetVst3Directory(Param: String): String;
begin
  Result := Vst3DirectoryPage.Values[0];
end;

function GetSampleDirectory(Param: String): String;
begin
  Result := SampleDirectoryPage.Values[0];
end;


procedure CurStepChanged(CurStep: TSetupStep);
var
  LinkWindowsFilePath: string;
  LinkWindowsFileContent: string;
  SampleDirectory: string;
  BaseDirectory: string;
begin
  if CurStep = ssInstall then
  begin
    BaseDirectory := ExpandConstant('{userappdata}\ZAK Sound\Downtown Grand Piano');
    ForceDirectories(BaseDirectory);

    LinkWindowsFilePath := BaseDirectory + '\LinkWindows';
    if FileExists(LinkWindowsFilePath) then
      DeleteFile(LinkWindowsFilePath);

    SampleDirectory := GetSampleDirectory('');

    LinkWindowsFileContent := SampleDirectory + '\Downtown Grand Piano Samples';

    SaveStringToFile(LinkWindowsFilePath, LinkWindowsFileContent, False);

@bendurso Well, I just made my own svg paths for the waveforms. If someone needs them, here it goes:

Sine
110,109,0,0,0,0,0,0,72,66,98,0,0,200,65,0,0,0,0,0,0,150,66,0,0,200,66,0,0,200,66,0,0,72,66,101,0,0

Saw
110,109,0,0,200,66,0,0,72,66,108,0,0,200,66,0,0,0,0,108,0,0,72,67,0,0,200,66,108,0,0,72,67,0,0,72,66,99,101,0,0

Square
110,109,0,0,0,0,0,0,200,66,108,0,0,0,0,0,0,72,66,108,0,0,72,66,0,0,72,66,108,0,0,72,66,0,0,200,66,99,109,0,0,72,66,0,0,0,0,108,0,0,72,66,0,0,72,66,108,0,0,200,66,0,0,72,66,108,0,0,200,66,0,0,0,0,99,101,0,0

Triangle
110,109,0,0,0,0,0,0,72,66,108,0,0,72,66,0,0,0,0,108,0,0,200,66,0,0,72,66,108,0,0,22,67,0,0,200,66,108,0,0,72,67,0,0,72,66,101,0,0

Random
110,109,0,0,0,0,0,0,72,66,108,0,0,160,65,0,0,72,66,108,0,0,160,65,0,0,240,65,108,0,0,32,66,0,0,240,65,108,0,0,32,66,0,0,160,66,108,0,0,112,66,0,0,160,66,108,0,0,112,66,0,0,160,65,108,0,0,160,66,0,0,160,65,108,0,0,160,66,0,0,112,66,108,0,0,200,66,0,0,
112,66,108,0,0,200,66,0,0,32,65,108,0,0,240,66,0,0,32,65,108,0,0,240,66,0,0,180,66,108,0,0,12,67,0,0,180,66,108,0,0,12,67,0,0,32,66,108,0,0,32,67,0,0,32,66,108,0,0,32,67,0,0,140,66,108,0,0,52,67,0,0,140,66,108,0,0,52,67,0,0,72,66,108,0,0,72,67,0,0,72,
66,101,0,0

They're SVG paths. So you can customize them within a panel :)

@oskarsh Another friendly bump.

I want to use it to move panels down/up.

@d-healey oh, I found the solution on this post: https://forum.hise.audio/topic/4355/changing-impulses-in-scriptnode/15

@d-healey It works on mine, and it's a M2. I didn't receive any complaints either.

@d-healey said in Compiling macOS Components and VST3 Doesn't Put Them in the Project Folder:

In a recent commit of HISE Christoph removed the copy step so it should no longer be moving the plugin files automatically (although this might only apply on the latest MacOS version I'm not sure).

I can confirm. I'm using Sonoma 14.3.1, and the compiled plugins are now located inside the project folder. That was a good surprise :)

@ThinkTank You have to add this:

const var ParametriqEQ1 = Synth.getEffect("Parametriq EQ1");
Engine.addModuleStateToUserPreset("Parametriq EQ1");

(Replace ParametriqEQ1 with your real EQ name)

@alfaholic This is how to copy/paste components: https://forum.hise.audio/topic/4408/copy-paste-component-following-feature-requests-thread?_=1696542841615

@bendurso I just realized that setting the Source Length to the same sample length (2048, I was using Automatic mode before) and enabling FLAC compression does the trick to obtain the same file as the example.

Beautiful page. I think the commercial license prices and FAQ are very useful for new potential users who want to use Hise :)

@Straticah Yeah, this is my code to install the expansions (i'm actually saving other things on that json file, so that's why I used "SampleFolder" to retrieve it from the json)

var CompletePath;

inline function InstallPackage()
{
	local parentFolder = FileSystem.getFolder("../");
	local SampleFile = parentFolder.getChildFile("settings.json");
    local SampleObject = SampleFile.loadAsObject();
    
    local DirectoryFile = FileSystem.fromAbsolutePath(SampleObject.SampleFolder);
    
    CompletePath = DirectoryFile.createDirectory(InstrumentName);
      
    if (CompletePath.isDirectory())
    {       
           expHandler.installExpansionFromPackage(selectedInstrumentFile, CompletePath);  
    }
    else
    {
        Console.print("Could not create the installation directory.");
    }
}

When I use expHandler.installExpansionFromPackage, it creates the link file on expansion samples folder with the samples path. It always worked for me, and I never received a support ticket.

And then I created my own button to change the samples path on settings. This will change the sample paths for all the expansions.

inline function onbtnChangeSamplesDirectoryControl(component, value)
{
    if (value)
    {
        FileSystem.browseForDirectory("", function(selectedFolder)
        {
            if (selectedFolder)
            {
                if (selectedFolder.hasWriteAccess())
                {
                    var path = selectedFolder.toString(0);
                    currentSampleFolderPath = path;

                    var notFound = [];

                    for (e in expHandler.getExpansionList())
                    {
                        var name = e.getProperties().Name;
                        var fullPath = path + "/" + name;
                        var folderObject = FileSystem.fromAbsolutePath(fullPath);

                        if (folderObject.isDirectory())
                        {
                            e.setSampleFolder(folderObject);
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            notFound.push(name);
                        }
                    }

                    if (notFound.length > 0)
                    {
                        Console.print("Not found");
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        Console.print("All sample folders updated successfully");
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    Console.print("The selected folder can't be accessed due to insufficient write permissions. Please choose a different folder.");
                }
            }
        });
    }
};

Content.getComponent("btnChangeSamplesDirectory").setControlCallback(onbtnChangeSamplesDirectoryControl);

@Straticah What I do is this: when the user opens the plugin for the first time, I ask them where they want to store all the samples and save that path in a JSON file.

Then, during each expansion installation, when I call expHandler.installExpansionFromPackage, I always send the samples to that folder inside a new subfolder. The file link is created automatically by this function.

If the user later wants to change the location, I provide a master configuration option for relocating samples. So I call Expansion.setSampleFolder for all the expansions and change the path of the json file. This way, the user can simply move all expansions at once.

I analyzed different approaches a while back, and this one seemed the most reasonable.

When using WavetableController.getResynthesisOptions(), we get a json file like this:

{
  "PhaseMode": "StaticPhase",
  "MipMapSize": 12,
  "CycleMultiplier": 4,
  "UseTransientMode": true,
  "NumCycles": -1,
  "ForceResynthesis": false,
  "UseLoris": true,
  "ReverseOrder": false,
  "RemoveNoise": true,
  "DenoiseSettings": {
    "SlowFFTOrder": 13.0,
    "FastFFTOrder": 9.0,
    "FreqResolution": 500.0,
    "TimeResolution": 0.2000000029802322,
    "CalculateTransients": true,
    "SlowTransientTreshold": [
      0.8,
      0.7
    ],
    "FastTransientTreshold": [
      0.85,
      0.75
    ]
  },
  "RootNote": -1
}

How can we set this file to imitate the modes "Residual", "mix" and "solo" from the stock tool wavetable creator?

I tried changing "RemoveNoise" and different "DenoiseSettings" but no luck to imitate the "Mix" and "Solo" modes

@Straticah To get the Tags text you can use

ExpansionHandler.getCurrentExpansion().getProperties().Tags

Supposing that is for the current expansion getCurrentExpansion(), but you could use any expansion.

It doesn't contain a description field in the expansion_info.xml.

@daniloprates This happens to me sometimes as well. I'm not sure if that's the only reason, since it has occurred on projects without expansions.

Other than having to move the mouse a bit more, everything works fine :)

@d-healey Did you remove /arch:AVX from extra compiler flags or did you something else? I tried and didn't work on that machine

@Christoph-Hart Nice, thanks. I rebuilt HISE with the latest commit and re-exported the plugin, but nothing changed for me.

What I find strange is that on Mac, the exported app (or plugin) opens instantly without any delay, while on Windows it takes about 5 seconds to load. My Mac is a bit more powerful than my Windows PC, but not five times more powerful.

@Christoph-Hart Thanks for your reply and details to debug it :)

It turns out I was mistaken—the commit I mentioned doesn’t work either.

I created a test project with a lot of sliders, labels, buttons, and comboboxes (using the latest commit), and exported it as a standalone app.

In HISE, the WebView works (the btnNews button shows and hides it), although the interface loads slowly. However, in the exported standalone app, it takes a long time to launch, and the WebView’s HTML doesn’t load.

If I remove the WebView, the interface loads much faster in both HISE and the standalone app.

This issue only occurs on Windows; everything works fine on Mac.

https://we.tl/t-S7yxRTEQQw

I found that commit ffc821ed0dcbde87c3b29dac9023b4b11eaeaf0e (enabled compilation of HISE with IPP by default) works fine. So the issue must be in a newer commit.

The plugin loads much faster, and the html file loads too. @Christoph-Hart maybe this info helps :)

@bendurso After a lot of testing, I figured out why the index.html file wasn’t loading. Once I deleted all the UI components (panels, sliders, etc.), it finally worked.

One thing I noticed is that the standalone app now opens way faster—went from 5 seconds to almost instant. Makes sense since there are fewer elements to load, but it always loads fast on Mac.

So maybe the HTML file isn’t loading because of too many UI elements? The weird part is I only see this issue on Windows, not Mac. A couple commits ago it was fine, but I can’t roll back since I’m using the new AHDSR Flex now.