I'm fortunate that I started with a (small) audience, and I'm selling to a focussed crowd. My plugins serve a very specific niche and the producers there are always hungry for more authentic products.

I've never done any paid ads. I might do an experiment on Instagram one day. I see a lot of adverts for plugins in my feed and I'm curious how effective they are.

I sell on Gumroad. They take about 15% fee, then you pay payment processor fees. I haven't done the maths for the total cut but I'd say it's less than 20%.

It's a good deal for me because it includes basic web presence, file hosting, secure delivery, payment processing (cards, Apple Pay, Google and PayPal), email marketing and analytics.

I started selling in September 2022. I'd done a couple of free plugins before that through various platforms like SimpleGoods and SendOwl but didn't take it seriously until later.

When I started selling I posted each new product on my Facebook and Instagram accounts. The engagement was pretty good to start with but I noticed that over time, I got more results from sending emails to my ever-growing email list. When I launch a new product now, I only send it to my email list at first. Then later I post short clips to Instagram but they're supplemental to the email list.

You NEED an email list. They say "the money's in the list" and in my experience, that's 100% correct.

Free products are a great way to build your email list. Most people stay subscribed and as long as you don't flood them with emails, they're happy to receive them.

This is my email strategy:

• Launch email for every new product with 20% discount code, valid for 2 weeks
• Reminder email 48 hours before the launch discount ends
• One email per month with 20% discount off a single product, valid for 2-3 days

That's it. I don't like to bombard my list with too many emails. I'm on some Gumroad seller lists where they send continual discounts, sometimes daily. This would be way too much for me as a customer.

Gumroad includes email marketing, which is a bonus because when your list gets large things like Mailchimp, ConvertKit, etc get into the $100's/month.

I can target emails to people who have or haven't bought specific products. Very handy for offering a discount only to those who haven't bought something. Or offering a discount for a product Y to those who have already bought product X. You can also target by how much someone has spent, so you can offer extra discounts or free stuff to your most loyal customers.

Gumroad also includes extra features like affiliates (having others push your products for a % split), collaborators (where you can split a products revenue with someone else), email automations (for sending drip emails to customers - I don't use those) and upsells (recommended products at checkout).

It does have some downsides. The download links in the receipt emails sometimes don't work and you have to send a link manually to the customer (Gumroad have so far refused to acknowledge this as an issue). I also find their fees to be expensive compared to other services, but for what I get built-in I still think it's worth it for now.

Something else that might be of interest is that Gumroad recently made the source code available, so if there's a feature you want to add and you're handy with Ruby on Rails and JavaScript you might be able to contribute.

Happy to report this has been merged in to develop branch!

@d-healey LOOK AT THAT BEAUTIFUL RELEASE CURVE! 🥰️

I use Myriad to batch process samples. It's saved me untold amount of hours in the last few years.

zynaptiq: MYRIAD

Zynaptiq - Audio software based on artificial intelligence technology.

(www.zynaptiq.com)

You can run individual tasks or create workflows to batch process in groups.

My usual workflow for trimming samples is something like:

1. Trim End below -70dB (tweak this based on the group of samples)
2. Fade End below -60dB (this produces a nice fade to zero at the end)
3. I also usually trim sample start below -80dB, at zero-crossing, because Logic Auto Sampler always has a bit of start gap.

You can do a lot more in Myriad (normalising to peak or LUFS, trim around loop points, set MIDI notes and velocity ranges, etc). Very handy app!

@Christoph-Hart Just came back to look at this and finally solved it!

HISE uses the system Ruby version to look for xcpretty.

If you're using a Ruby version manager like rvm, Rbenv, ASDF or chruby you'll need to switch to the system Ruby to install xcpretty.

I use chruby so I did:

$ chruby system // or however your version manager switches to system Ruby

// Confirm I'm using the system Ruby
$ ruby -v
ruby 2.6.10p210 (2022-04-12 revision 67958) [universal.arm64e-darwin23]
$ which ruby
/usr/bin/ruby

// Install xcpretty for the system Ruby
$ sudo gem install xcpretty
Password: ********
Fetching rouge-2.0.7.gem
Fetching xcpretty-0.3.0.gem
Successfully installed rouge-2.0.7
Successfully installed xcpretty-0.3.0
2 gems installed

// Run the same command that HISE runs to make sure it's there
$ gem list xcpretty
*** LOCAL GEMS ***
xcpretty (0.3.0)

Just my 2¢ - you can see which commits are passing or failing CI on GitHub. It's probably a good idea not to try building from one of the commits that's failing for your OS (Mac/Win).

Those categories are for Logic's native plugins. Apple doesn't allow you to list your plugin there.

You'll notice that there are zero third-party plugins under those categories.

All third-party effect plugins are under the bottom category of Audio Units.

Same goes for instruments. They're under bottom category, AU Instruments.

It would be cool to have a SemiTones control in the Waveform Generator, like the Sine Wave Generator already has. It would allow for easy interval creation and control.

I checked the source code and it seems doable - unless I'm missing something, which I almost certainly am.

@Christoph-Hart would you accept a pull request for this if I could get it working?

Something like this:

The docs on Colours are pretty comprehensive:

HISE | Scripting | Colours

Generate and modify colours.

(docs.hise.dev)

@d-healey Nice! Command-line tools are usually my go-to as well but what I love about Myriad is that it gives you a visual preview of the fades before they're applied.

You select a workflow then up/down arrow through all your samples in the list and the waveform panel shows you all the fades it will apply when you hit Run.

Real nice to have a sanity check like that!

The docs on Colours are pretty comprehensive:

HISE | Scripting | Colours

Generate and modify colours.

(docs.hise.dev)

@Chazrox Unless @aaronventure says otherwise, as far as I know it's all local files. Webview is a bit of a misnomer really. It's just a local HTML file.

@Sampletekk Scriptnode has smoothed_parameter but I don't know how to apply it to a built-in module. Still a newbie but seen the 'zipper' thing enough times to remember about smoothed params.

HISE | ScriptNode | smoothed_parameter

Please enter a brief description.

(docs.hise.dev)

@aaronventure Do you have any example code that shows this? And do you have any released plugins using this web view method for the UI?

@d-healey Could all be done on GitHub. There are Discussions that can be used for proposing and discussing ideas. It also has a voting system. Then the issue tracker can be used for formal feature requests.

Discussing things on the forum is great, of course, but a single source of truth for feature requests and bug reports would be really useful.

@resonant said in Waterfall Spectrum Display:

So, is there any chance you can add it for frequency spectrum as well?

+1 for that!

@Christoph-Hart said in Moddifying the table UI element:

const var Table1 = Content.getComponent("Table1");

Table1.setSnapValues([0.0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1.0]);

WHATTHE!

@d-healey said in Waterfall Spectrum Display:

This is only for wavetables though, not audio spectrum in general?

Did you ever find out about this?

Can it be used to display audio spectrum data?

Or is just for Wavetable Synth?

(Haven't updated yet so I can't test. Building HISE on my machine is a nightmare! )

@d-healey said in Hide/Show Presetbrower via a button:

@Oriah-Beats Haven't looked at the snippet, but I am confident you have enabled saveInPreset for those buttons, so they are retriggering each time you change preset.

The Oracle!

The advantage of virtual machines, if you have a powerful enough computer, is that you can load multiple different OS versions. This would be the equivalent of having a handful of laptops, each running a different version of Win/Mac/Linux OS.

Another advantage of something like Parallels on Mac is you can drag and drop between the main macOS and the virtual machine. Very handy for moving files, installers, etc to the virtual machine.