Expansions in HISE

[Straticah]

I have a few questions regarding the Expansion Feature in HISE

I got it to work but it gives me some troubles here and there.

01 can an expansion be installed from outside VSTs default "appdata" path? (eg. a harddrive beacause of space)

02 do i need to disable "ask for samples dialog" on instrument startup (since only expansions will be used)

03 is there a feature/button in HISE to open an expansion installer? (something like +add/load expansion in preset browser)

04 how does the Instrument provide the expansions samplemaps when installed
(via selecting a preset from that expansion? can all expansions be initialized by default)

[d.healey]

@Straticah said in Expansions in HISE:

01 can an expansion be installed from outside VSTs default "appdata" path? (eg. a harddrive beacause of space)

The samples can be, yes, the data files need to go in AppData though, but they're pretty small.

@Straticah said in Expansions in HISE:

02 do i need to disable "ask for samples dialog" on instrument startup (since only expansions will be used)

Yeah I do.

@Straticah said in Expansions in HISE:

03 is there a feature/button in HISE to open an expansion installer? (something like +add/load expansion in preset browser)

If you're using the built in system there is an installExpansionFromPackage function which will install it from a hr1 file.

@Straticah said in Expansions in HISE:

04 how does the Instrument provide the expansions samplemaps when installed
(via selecting a preset from that expansion? can all expansions be initialized by default)

You can enable the expansion column in the preset browser. You can also script your own expansion loaded mechanism. Check out the expansion handler API.

[Straticah]

@d-healey thank you!

How do I disable the „ask for samples dialog“

I have found projucer options for the buttons but I would like to hide the whole overlay.

[d.healey]

@Straticah Add HISE_DEACTIVATE_OVERLAY=1 in your project's extra definitions.