Adding a distortion knob
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@griffinboy And I have no idea how to do that.
Before I started using HISE, I was making instruments that ran in Kontakt, using Kontakt GUI maker. It had a distortion effect you could add that just added distortion, not overall volume. I really need that to happen in these plugins I am making.
If anyone is willing to help with scripting, since I am new to that too. -
mmm yeah, Hise is a bit more involved, it's a step up from Kontakt in terms of complexity.
Were you using KSP in your kontakt instruments previously?
If you were, you'll have less issue doing what I said.If not, you've got a bunch to learn here!
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@griffinboy said in Adding a distortion knob:
Were you using KSP in your kontakt instruments previously?
Since I don't know what that is, I'm gonna go with no :-)
So, I actually added a limiter in line after the saturator and set it up so the overall volume doesn't change when saturation is added, and it worked!
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haha, it will, but try it on drums.
You will now get heavy limiting, potentially adding weird dynamics.
It may be what you are after. Make sure to test on a bunch of program material to make sure its doing what you intended.
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@griffinboy Actually, a multiout drum instrument is in my future plans for Hise, so thanks for the warning.
I do have three developers on my team who are totally familiar with juce, javascript, and C++. So I am sure I'll be bugging them when the time comes. -
@griffinboy Yikes!
Having added the saturator and limiter seems to have added a bunch of latency to the plugin.
I exported and opened it in my daw project which also contains a drum track that the instruments plays along with, and it is about 100ms behind.
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I'm sure that's the lookahead on the limiter.
There is a hisescript command to compensate for latency
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@griffinboy I will look around for that. And yes, I took out the limiter and the latency went away.
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@pcs800 just use a faust limiter - tis less (much les)) latency
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@Lindon Isn't that involving adding code instead of adding it with the gui editor?
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@pcs800 said in Adding a distortion knob:
@Lindon Isn't that involving adding code instead of adding it with the gui editor?
yes - if you are looking to build a meaningful and class compliant product without writing code I fear you will be disappointed.
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Indeed, but everyone has to start somewhere. My first Hise vst was a sine generator with a pretty UI and a pitch knob.
Start with getting a programmed interface to control what already exists in Hise.
Get a UI working for your current project.Next, explore scriptnode if you want to take it further.
Then Faust, snex or c++ would be the next step.
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@griffinboy said in Adding a distortion knob:
Indeed, but everyone has to start somewhere. My first Hise vst was a sine generator with a pretty UI and a pitch knob.
yes but that wasn't a n effect with a limiter and no latency was it?
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Yes yes, I just got the impression that this person was trying to create one of their first projects
I may be mistaken though, and you're absolutely right, you need to touch dsp to get a good result here.My actual first project was a multi engine sampler with effects chains and modulation... It didn't turn out so well so I had to backtrack and start simpler
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You can use a shape fx as distortion as well and there is also an auto gain implemented already. But be careful it's a little buggy.
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@pcs800 I was saying similar things when I first came here. My advice is buckle down and learn a few things. HISE is very non-coder-user-friendly but a little bit of coding can take you a long way. All of the advanced features REQUIRE code. Subscribe to @d-healey 's Patreon and Youtube channel. You'll learn everything you need to get started! It helps so much, I have it programmed into my stream deck. lol.
When I first started I programmed all of these script "templates" to my stream deck controller so whenever I needed to "code", I just pressed one of these buttons with pre-saved scripts. These are basic and I can write them all from scratch now but this helped me out big time when I was just starting.
Just sharing my personal noob-journey. lol. Keep going, learn, learn, learn. Good Luck! Happy Hising!
@griffinboy the first plugin im releasing is a 24Channel Drum Machine w/ 9 Samplers and 3 Send FX + Comp/EQ settings for every channel. Ambitious?? AF! lol....I learned very fast that I had jumped in on the deep end but I didnt quit and now its done. Took me 4 months but Thanks to everyones help here on the forum we got there! Mind you, I came here with ZERO coding experience!
<--Me when I first got here. lol
