Adding a distortion knob

[pcs800]

@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.

[pcs800]

@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.
Anyone have insight on latency being introduced?

[griffinboy]

@pcs800

I'm sure that's the lookahead on the limiter.

There is a hisescript command to compensate for latency

[pcs800]

@griffinboy I will look around for that. And yes, I took out the limiter and the latency went away.

[Lindon]

@pcs800 just use a faust limiter - tis less (much les)) latency

[pcs800]

@Lindon Isn't that involving adding code instead of adding it with the gui editor?

[Lindon]

@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.

[griffinboy]

@Lindon
@pcs800

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.

[Lindon]

@griffinboy said in Adding a distortion knob:

@Lindon
@pcs800

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?

[griffinboy]

@Lindon

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

[StephanS]

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.

[Chazrox]

@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