@bendurso Today I learned that right-clicking a module in edit mode shows a different context menu to right-clicking not in edit mode.

PR that adds StartPhase1 and StartPhase2 to Waveform Generator.

Coded for my own needs but someone else might find it useful.

Works great for setting a random phase offset on MIDI note-on.

Works independently for Osc1 and Osc2.

https://github.com/christophhart/HISE/pull/792

EDIT: from this conversation https://forum.hise.audio/topic/13720/free-running-or-randomised-phase-for-waveform-generator-oscillators/9

I'm fortunate that I started with a (small) audience, and I'm selling to a focussed crowd. My plugins serve a very specific niche and the producers there are always hungry for more authentic products.

I've never done any paid ads. I might do an experiment on Instagram one day. I see a lot of adverts for plugins in my feed and I'm curious how effective they are.

I sell on Gumroad. They take about 15% fee, then you pay payment processor fees. I haven't done the maths for the total cut but I'd say it's less than 20%.

It's a good deal for me because it includes basic web presence, file hosting, secure delivery, payment processing (cards, Apple Pay, Google and PayPal), email marketing and analytics.

I started selling in September 2022. I'd done a couple of free plugins before that through various platforms like SimpleGoods and SendOwl but didn't take it seriously until later.

When I started selling I posted each new product on my Facebook and Instagram accounts. The engagement was pretty good to start with but I noticed that over time, I got more results from sending emails to my ever-growing email list. When I launch a new product now, I only send it to my email list at first. Then later I post short clips to Instagram but they're supplemental to the email list.

You NEED an email list. They say "the money's in the list" and in my experience, that's 100% correct.

Free products are a great way to build your email list. Most people stay subscribed and as long as you don't flood them with emails, they're happy to receive them.

This is my email strategy:

• Launch email for every new product with 20% discount code, valid for 2 weeks
• Reminder email 48 hours before the launch discount ends
• One email per month with 20% discount off a single product, valid for 2-3 days

That's it. I don't like to bombard my list with too many emails. I'm on some Gumroad seller lists where they send continual discounts, sometimes daily. This would be way too much for me as a customer.

Gumroad includes email marketing, which is a bonus because when your list gets large things like Mailchimp, ConvertKit, etc get into the $100's/month.

I can target emails to people who have or haven't bought specific products. Very handy for offering a discount only to those who haven't bought something. Or offering a discount for a product Y to those who have already bought product X. You can also target by how much someone has spent, so you can offer extra discounts or free stuff to your most loyal customers.

Gumroad also includes extra features like affiliates (having others push your products for a % split), collaborators (where you can split a products revenue with someone else), email automations (for sending drip emails to customers - I don't use those) and upsells (recommended products at checkout).

It does have some downsides. The download links in the receipt emails sometimes don't work and you have to send a link manually to the customer (Gumroad have so far refused to acknowledge this as an issue). I also find their fees to be expensive compared to other services, but for what I get built-in I still think it's worth it for now.

Something else that might be of interest is that Gumroad recently made the source code available, so if there's a feature you want to add and you're handy with Ruby on Rails and JavaScript you might be able to contribute.

Happy to report this has been merged in to develop branch!

@aaronventure said in Quick F5 tip for Mac users:

@d-healey Hold Shift while typing to amplify my anger.

Exactly this! Left pinky on the SHIFT and hammer those keys!

Same on iOS. Instead of double-tapping the shift key to lock it, I shift uppercase every character, just so it makes me more angry!

@d-healey LOOK AT THAT BEAUTIFUL RELEASE CURVE! 🥰️

@Chazrox Wouldn't you have to call SomeFunctions.HelperFunction() outside the namespace?

I use Myriad to batch process samples. It's saved me untold amount of hours in the last few years.

https://www.zynaptiq.com/myriad/

You can run individual tasks or create workflows to batch process in groups.

My usual workflow for trimming samples is something like:

1. Trim End below -70dB (tweak this based on the group of samples)
2. Fade End below -60dB (this produces a nice fade to zero at the end)
3. I also usually trim sample start below -80dB, at zero-crossing, because Logic Auto Sampler always has a bit of start gap.

You can do a lot more in Myriad (normalising to peak or LUFS, trim around loop points, set MIDI notes and velocity ranges, etc). Very handy app!

@Christoph-Hart Just came back to look at this and finally solved it!

HISE uses the system Ruby version to look for xcpretty.

If you're using a Ruby version manager like rvm, Rbenv, ASDF or chruby you'll need to switch to the system Ruby to install xcpretty.

I use chruby so I did:

$ chruby system // or however your version manager switches to system Ruby

// Confirm I'm using the system Ruby
$ ruby -v
ruby 2.6.10p210 (2022-04-12 revision 67958) [universal.arm64e-darwin23]
$ which ruby
/usr/bin/ruby

// Install xcpretty for the system Ruby
$ sudo gem install xcpretty
Password: ********
Fetching rouge-2.0.7.gem
Fetching xcpretty-0.3.0.gem
Successfully installed rouge-2.0.7
Successfully installed xcpretty-0.3.0
2 gems installed

// Run the same command that HISE runs to make sure it's there
$ gem list xcpretty
*** LOCAL GEMS ***
xcpretty (0.3.0)

@d-healey I'm clearly not explaining myself very well

I see folks on this forum releasing HISE plugins and I often think I'd like to check out what they're selling and how it works/looks/feels, as 'research' (easy way to justify spending money ) and partly a kind of HISE pride thing.

Of course people are going to promote their Black Friday sales on real, prominent places. I just thought it might be nice if the HISE devs here had a place to drop their links so other HISE devs here could be aware of them.

Example:

Prototype Audio are 70% off, including the new Fraction https://prototype.audio
Noise Ash plugs are up to 80% off https://noiseash.com/
Wave Alchemy Triaz is 50% off https://www.wavealchemy.co.uk/product/triaz/
Sampleson Meta Piano is 33% off https://sampleson.com/metapiano.html

@d-healey I'm clearly not explaining myself very well

I see folks on this forum releasing HISE plugins and I often think I'd like to check out what they're selling and how it works/looks/feels, as 'research' (easy way to justify spending money ) and partly a kind of HISE pride thing.

Of course people are going to promote their Black Friday sales on real, prominent places. I just thought it might be nice if the HISE devs here had a place to drop their links so other HISE devs here could be aware of them.

Example:

Prototype Audio are 70% off, including the new Fraction https://prototype.audio
Noise Ash plugs are up to 80% off https://noiseash.com/
Wave Alchemy Triaz is 50% off https://www.wavealchemy.co.uk/product/triaz/
Sampleson Meta Piano is 33% off https://sampleson.com/metapiano.html

@d-healey Ah gotcha. No, I mean for devs here to share their Black Friday sales on plugins made with HISE, so others here can check them out.

But you're saying you don't think a lot of folks in this forum buy plugins? That's fair enough!

@d-healey There are several folks active in this forum that sell HISE-made plugins aren't there?

Can we do a little Black Friday self-promotion post? @Christoph-Hart, please delete if not!

I don't do Black Friday sales myself but I know a lot of folks do and it'd be a great time for us to be able to check out each others plugins at a discount, while still supporting!

Drop your links below!

I expect we all want slightly different sets of interactions with tables. I wonder if we can expose them as project settings, so we can all have what we want in our own plugins?

I think (so far ) my preference would be:

Table points: left-click to add, left drag to move, double left-click to remove
Lines: left drag to bend (only within the current line boundaries), double- left-click to reset

The current method of left-click-and-drag to both add a point and position it in one motion is nice, but I'd happily give that up for a two-step click-to-add then drag-to-move system if it means not dealing with right clicks.

Although I do quite like the idea of double left-click to both add and remove points, as @DanH mentions above.

I would also want (as noted above) dragging curves to be restricted to the current line segment only. Currently if I drag a curve up/down then move my cursor left-right it starts bending neighbour curves. Feels very weird.

@Yannrog Gotcha. Aside from the other points here, make sure the convolution impulse file is in your project's Audio Files folder before you drag/load it into HISE.

@Yannrog Did you export as a FX plugin rather than an instrument plugin?

@Christoph-Hart said in [Loop points clicking issue in HISE but not in other samplers]

There are quite a few unit tests in deterministic parts of the codebase (eg. the SNEX compiler is almost fully covered by unit tests), but the nature of audio software makes it super hard to cover DSP things like this.

Yeah, I totally get it. I'm not criticising at all. Just coming from a different world.

I don't use strict TDD in Rails - more like a write code, then write tests to confirm the code. But just that alone gives some pretty decent regression-proofing.

If there's anywhere else in the codebase where I could contribute unit tests, I'd be more than happy to jump in.

My first HISE project looks like it will be a simple synth with no samples or other 'external' assets. The only thing it uses are a couple of short audio loops, which I believe are compiled into the plugin binary.

Does this mean I can export as VST and AU and distribute those 'bare' files?

Mac: MyPlugin.vst3 and MyPlugin.component
Win: MyPlugin.vst3

This is the kind of thing that could be covered by unit tests. They would confirm functionality and prevent regressions.

(Not saying it's a HISE code issue, of course, just saying that unit tests could tell you if is or isn't)

Coming to HISE as a Ruby on Rails developer, it's always felt weird to me that there aren't any unit tests here.

But I guess that's the norm for C++ and/or HISE/JUCE-type projects, especially predominantly single-author projects?