I don’t know anything about scripting. Is HISE for me?

Mors

@pgaudioworks Of course it's for you! I started on HISE 2 months ago, absolutely 0 coding knowldege, 0 plugin making knowledge and just last week released my first ever plugin that has been a hit.

As long as your open to learning you'll be fine, this forum is incredibly helpful as well!

virtuscapeaudio

@pgaudioworks I literally had zero knowledge of any programming language but tons of experience with Kontakt since v4. If you are a great student, then all you need to do (what I did) is sign up to @d-healey patreon (top tier), binge watch his youtube channel and take literal notes, and just dive straight to the deep end by creating a project. Highly recommend at least starting your project with the Rhapsody template as the infrastructure is all there (preset browser, basic GUI, etc) to get a feel.

My debut instrument was made with mostly bult-in components (including the reverb freeze mode!!) but the community here and ChatGPT helped with HISE scripting.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PLRcWuEkvIU

For context, it took me about 5 months from the first youtube vid I watched to releasing the instrument. (I already had samples recorded and tried to build in UVI Falcon first).

Honestly if it wasn't for @d-healey and @DanH (and of course the forum) I couldn't have done it.

but...

JUST GO FOR IT...It's worth it in the end.

virtuscapeaudio

@virtuscapeaudio @pgaudioworks HERE are my notes from @d-healey 's Scripting 101 video (the video link is in the header of notes). Maybe they can be helpful to you even though they are in my own language.

This link is marked "Editor" so if anyone want's to contribute for other first timers then please feel free. (Then again there's always the HISE Docs lol)

WaterSpoon

I agree HISE is really awesome. I have been making plugins with Maize for a long time and getting into HISE just 2 months ago I am truly finding this to be amazing. I would just say do not give up!!! you will get to a block learn something new, feel awesome... then hit something else.... fix it, feel great. Ride the dopamine train!!! It's for you!!!

pgaudioworks

@Dan-Korneff Haha! Where did you learn those programming basics?

pgaudioworks

@d-healey said in I don’t know anything about scripting. Is HISE for me?:

@pgaudioworks said in I don’t know anything about scripting. Is HISE for me?:

fairly reasonable time period

It kind of depends on what your goal is.

If it's just mapping some samples and exporting a plugin for your own use then you can do that in a week (most of that time will be spent getting compilers setup and understanding how they work). However in that case I'd recommend you use SFZ - https://sfzformat.com/.

You mention learning scripting but you haven't said what you want to do with scripting. Until we know your goal we can't give you any real estimate on time. It can take months to many years depending on what you want to achieve.

I guess I'm not entirely sure yet. I know I'd like to record percussion libraries with multiple mic positions and sound design. I'd definitely want to include a velocity curve automation and expression automation. But as I'm just getting started I don't know exactly where scripting comes in with these ideas yet. I'm going to keep being curious though!

pgaudioworks

@virtuscapeaudio said in I don’t know anything about scripting. Is HISE for me?:

@virtuscapeaudio @pgaudioworks HERE are my notes from @d-healey 's Scripting 101 video (the video link is in the header of notes). Maybe they can be helpful to you even though they are in my own language.

This link is marked "Editor" so if anyone want's to contribute for other first timers then please feel free. (Then again there's always the HISE Docs lol)

This is generous of you. I'll dig into this tomorrow, along with the video. Thank you for the resource and the encouragement!

pgaudioworks

@Mors said in I don’t know anything about scripting. Is HISE for me?:

@pgaudioworks Of course it's for you! I started on HISE 2 months ago, absolutely 0 coding knowldege, 0 plugin making knowledge and just last week released my first ever plugin that has been a hit.

As long as your open to learning you'll be fine, this forum is incredibly helpful as well!

Thanks for this, where can I see what you made? This is very encouraging to hear. I may not have the same timeline as you, but hearing that someone did it and started in the same position I'm in his very helpful!