Multi Instrument Host

[A Former User]

Multi-output is cool in a plugin but HISE doesn't offer this in it's native plugin as a host. I can't load a few of my HISE projects that I have scripted into the one instance unless I use my own Voldermort template session to accept multiple scripts/classes/functions then create my instruments using my own Voldermort API within Hise.
BE great for HISE to have a host option to accept these instrument projects. Obviously some would be setup for multi already so limitations would be obvious to begin with. Voldermort has a multi-instrument format which can be handy. I can imagine this would be amazing tech to house stores and plugins within the framework too.

[d.healey]

I don't what you're talking about. What is "Voldermort API"? what is "native plugin as host"? What do you mean by multi-output? (HISE supports multiple outputs)

[A Former User]

Voldermort is the sampler by which we never name. So I call my host scripts on HISE by this convention. Hise runs as host VST but cannot run more than one project/session at a time. It needs a multi session host......like Voldemort.....I'm trying to be covert.

Say you want to quickly run a VST plugin that will host every articulation you have ever created on an instrument.....you can't do that with HISE...yet.

[d.healey]

@danial

Right now I understand you. HISE is not a host, it is a tool to build plugins. Kontakt is a host, it hosts NKIs. The two programs are entirely different in this respect.

There was an idea for a HISE player a few years ago but that's no actively being developed as far as I know. If you want to host multiple instruments in your HISE project you can already do this, but there are a lot of limitations. The best solution currently is to create a single plugin that can load different expansions or presets (current the expansion system is broken though).

This would be able to load only a single sample library/instrument at a time so the user would need to load multiple instances to have more than one instrument. Having multiple instances isn't really a problem though as HISE shares resources (like images) between instances to save memory so it doesn't increase the resource footprint very much compared to loading multiple NKIs inside Kontakt.

@danial said in Multi Instrument Host:

Say you want to quickly run a VST plugin that will host every articulation you have ever created on an instrument.....you can't do that with HISE...yet.

Having an instrument with multiple articulations - as opposed to "hosting" multiple instruments - is already possible. You can separate articulations using key range, key switches, velocity, program changes, CC, channels, and presets.

[A Former User]

Does Hise run a server and host multiple images? I haven't noticed that to this date. Would be cool if it did....would make every idea I'm talking about easy to code up.

[A Former User]

Please don't think I am critiquing anything towards the project......I can see an amazing value Chris has managed to build over they years. As an open source project I think adding this feature is another step to the process of opening the project.

[A Former User]

@d-healey I understand your point too. If I have created an instrument and wish to run it as part of a multi instrument in Hise......much like I can do in Voldermort(Kontakt!!!)...can't do. We need this.

[d.healey]

@danial said in Multi Instrument Host:

Please don't think I am critiquing anything towards the project......I can see an amazing value Chris has managed to build over they years. As an open source project I think adding this feature is another step to the process of opening the project.

I don't see how you can add it as a feature since HISE isn't a host.

@danial said in Multi Instrument Host:

Does Hise run a server and host multiple images? I haven't noticed that to this date. Would be cool if it did....would make every idea I'm talking about easy to code up.

There's no server, it just shares the memory.

@danial said in Multi Instrument Host:

@d-healey I understand your point too. If I have created an instrument and wish to run it as part of a multi instrument in Hise......much like I can do in Voldermort(Kontakt!!!)...can't do. We need this.

Again, you don't run your instruments in HISE. HISE is not a host, it's a tool to build plugins.

[A Former User]

Linux was the last system it was ever designed for and you don't see this. I was pushing linux way before you ever thought it was viable.

[d.healey]

@danial said in Multi Instrument Host:

Linux was the last system it was ever designed for and you don't see this. I was pushing linux way before you ever thought it was viable.

What's this got to do with the rest of the thread?

[A Former User]

Open source my ass.This project is a Ponzi!

[A Former User]

Show mow me otherwise!

[d.healey]

What are you talking about?

[A Former User]

What is the agenda?

[d.healey]

@danial Of what?

[Christoph Hart]

Lol that took a weird turn. @dustbro, your GIF skills are required...

[Dan Korneff]

[Dan Korneff]

[Christoph Hart]

Perfect.

[Lindon]

@dustbro on the money as usual....