I released my project!

[d.healey]

Ah this is annoying. The GET request works when ran from Hoppscotch/Postman but when I run it from HISE I get back a cached version of the data.

Any web request experts here? Does HISE add some extra headers to GET requests?

Also if I change the endpoint method to POST and change the call in HISE accordingly it works just fine. But this really should be a GET request.

[d.healey]

After 7 hours I remember that HISE adds a / to the end of POST requests but not GET. So I add one to my GET request and magically it all works!!!! Well I learned a lot today about configuring lscache :)

[d.healey]

@oskarsh New version up - https://codeberg.org/LibreWave/Hub/releases/tag/1.0.1

[oskarsh]

@d-healey I tested version 1.0.1 and now I am not able to download products that I do not own. So everything good here.

Another minor thing I noticed is that the MIME type of the .jpg images indicates that these images are actually .png files. I think there is some potential here to use actual .jpg and compress them to bring down the file size since .png files are usually larger.

[d.healey]

@oskarsh Thanks for confirming. I'll checkout the mime type thing.

[d.healey]

I made a new instrument :)

https://librewave.com/product/osiris/

[Matt_SF]

@d-healey sounds good! Where do you get these kind of instruments? Do you have an ethnic shop nearby?

[d.healey]

@Matt_SF I outsource the recording to the musicians who have the instruments. This one we originally recorded a few years ago and released as a Kontakt library.

[Matt_SF]

@d-healey ah, that's what I supposed. Thanks for sharing

[ulrik]

@d-healey Nice sounding instrument, congratulations!!

[d.healey]

Another new instrument: https://librewave.com/product/modern-bodhran/

https://youtu.be/SiZZMKyFcA8

[TNTHM]

@d-healey This is really awesome! You're incredibly talented.

[Lindon]

@d-healey very nice release mate well done.

[Matt_SF]

@d-healey Sounds very nice. Congrats !

[Matt_SF]

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[hisefilo]

@d-healey Bravooooooo!! I like it

[gorangrooves]

@d-healey Very well thought-out and put together, Dave! I think you've done a particularly good job with the software implementation. Meticulous planning and work invested are evident in every detail.

I have a couple of critical observations if you don't mind.

The color coding of keys is a bit too much for my tastes. I am not sure whether I would remember what color is what or whether there is a better way to accomplish that.

While the samples were recorded very cleanly and with multiple mics, you seem to have overlooked the most important set of mics for making this sound like a real acoustic instrument: room mics.
The way it sounds in the demo is if you were to stick your head right inside the drum, which is not the way anyone, not even the performer, will ever hear the instrument that way. To me, this sounds closer to a synth drum than an actual percussion instrument played by a person in an acoustic space. To my taste, you missing the "dirt."

What we are accustomed to hearing live is not only the instrument that produces the sound but, just as equally important, the acoustic environment in which the instrument is played and how it interacts with it. Additionally, the direct sound produced by percussion instruments is very different from up close to a bit further away.

Of course, there are users who will want this type of sound and control, and I would highly and gladly recommend this to them. And for those who are after a virtual bodhran that sounds like the actual acoustic instrument played in an acoustic space with the "dirt" that accompanies it, I think I will create one myself.

[d.healey]

Thanks guys!

@gorangrooves We did actually record a stereo room pair but I didn't include them because I wasn't happy with the sound. Maybe I'll work on them a bit and release them in an update if I can get them to a point I'm happy with.

For a "dirty" sound you might prefer my other bodhran library.

[gorangrooves]

@d-healey Thanks for sharing that. Yes, I like the sound character of the older library. While it may not appear as pristine as your new one, it sounds more realistic to me. And don't get me wrong: the sound quality of your latest release is superb. I was talking purely from a stylistic point.

It is a bummer that you were not pleased with the room mics recordings of your latest library. Unless something is seriously wrong with it (phase issues), perhaps when carefully blended with the close mics, it can all sound wonderful together.

[ustk]

@gorangrooves @d-healey Just my 2 cents as I am not a big user of those kind of libraries (the sound is amazing BTW). Room mics are nice to have indeed when you play the instrument in solo. But once you mix it with other libraries you end up with a blend of different room spaces that are often not matching together very well. So in the end it is better to recreate the room ambience with a reverb so all instrument share the same feeling.