Howdy Hise Homies!

I use a Mac primarily and find using knobman online to be pretty unreliable in Safari, I got sick of running Knobman in parallels because it was really slow for my (niche) use case.
I saw Christoph professing how good Claude had gotten so I decided to give it a little go and ended up making KnobForge, a Knobman alternative with some extra bits added in that I use all the time but that take me ages - they now take me minutes!

https://www.nevermoreaudio.co.uk/knobforge

What is KnobForge -
Basically it does what knobman does - you can layer shapes, lighting and shadow effects etc to create your own knob designs, render them into a sprite sheet of up to 360 steps at 500x500 each, and then preview that knob in the canvas area before you download it.
KnobForge can also do what I in my head have always called 'Arc Knobs' where the body of the knob is invisible and turning the knob up and down reveals and hides an arc/circle around the body - hope that makes any sense. Sweep mode will show what I mean!

What ELSE is KnobForge -
I'm developing a brand for my plugin releases that is very much "Poe-esk" - it's all a bit hopefully-not-cheesy-gothic, ink on parchment and so on. I wanted to convert some stock footage ink blotting videos into sprite sheets that I could then control via timers etc in HISE for UI purposes.
SO - back to KnobForge - it can:
Read a short video
Strip it down frame by frame
Strip the background from those frames in 3 different ways with controllable tolerances
Build those frames into a sprite sheet of up to 500x500 per image (Browser limitation)
Preview that sprite sheet as a knob in canvas (heavily scaled, you'll need to download it to see the full resolution sheet)

You can also do the above with images - got a pedal in your house with a cool knob? Take a top down photo, pop it into knobforge, strip the background and generate a sprite sheet!

Known issues;
With really large sheets - like 360 Frame 500x500 sheets, you sometimes have to click generate twice - the first time looks like it's worked, but it's not quite there. Click generate, go back to the design tab, click 'use as source' again and then regenerate the sheet - this should then work. This is due to the way it has to encode and decode the image, it's not the end of the world just something worth knowing.

Other stuff:
I've compiled this into a Mac app using HISE WebView and it works great, I don't think I'm allowed to publish it here due to the HISE license agreement but I'm honestly not sure so if Christoph sees this maybe he can shed some light, I don't want to tag him as he's busy enough already without my nonsense :)

Hopefully this helps someone out, this community is packed with absolute legends and I just want to give back in some way!
I take no credit for this, all I did was lob prompts at Claude for 3 days,

https://www.nevermoreaudio.co.uk/knobforge

EXAMPLE SPRITES (you can use these however you like, go nuts):
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/6qawfu5nymxqgfbp9rz4x/ALt0mXkKsj178W6ZRCArbpU?rlkey=d3zhx3rvolqd12nwscm7cci8x&st=rma1k8rs&dl=0

@JulesV Don't know if this helps but I have this working fine in my current project:

//ML Model Loader
const neuralNetwork = Engine.createNeuralNetwork("Plasma");

const namModel = FileSystem.getFolder(FileSystem.AudioFiles).getChildFile("Plasma.json").loadAsObject();

neuralNetwork.loadNAMModel(namModel);
;

I renamed my NAM model to a JSON, in this case Plasma.json and put it in AudioFiles as I found Samples wasn't working reliably for me.
This then pops up in the Neural node in scriptnode no problem. This is a 1000 Epoch NAM model so the json is pretty big/has a lots of weights.
Again, hope this helps!
And thanks so much @aaronventure for the help getting this going, it's been a bit of a game changer for me distortion wise!

@d-healey Ahh gotcha - thanks as always d.healey!

For the future:

//PresetDisplay
const var PresetNameLabel = Content.getComponent("PresetNameLabel");
UserPresetHandler.setPostCallback(function()
{
	PresetNameLabel.set("text", Engine.getCurrentUserPresetName());
});

@griffinboy This was it! For some reason I never even noticed the drop down on the wet/dry gain! Thanks as always :)

@griffinboy Can't wait to see what you make, this sounds amazing!

@ulrik That one didn't work properly for me so I use this:

https://www.cssportal.com/css-sprite-generator/

What I did to get this working was:

• Trim the empty space from the video edges.
• Convert the video to GIF - https://ezgif.com/video-to-gif
• Extract the frames from the GIF as PNG files - https://ezgif.com/split
• Convert all the PNGs into a filmstrip with the above CSS Sprite Generator
• attach filmstrip to Panel in HISE.

/** Looping Video Panel */
inline function createHeadSprite(name, x, y)
{
    local widget = Content.addPanel(name, x, y);
    
    Content.setPropertiesFromJSON(name, {
      "width": WIDTH OF SINGLE PNG,
      "height": HEIGHT OF SINGLE PNG,
      "saveInPreset": true,
      "allowCallbacks": "Clicks, Hover & Dragging"
    });
    
    // Asset Strip
    widget.loadImage("{PROJECT_FOLDER}FILMSTRIP.png", "filmstrip");
    
    widget.setPaintRoutine(function(g)
    {
        // Calculate the index (the filmstrip has 100 slices, each ???px high
        var index = parseInt(this.getValue()*197.0);
        
        g.drawImage("filmstrip", [0, 0, this.getWidth(), this.getHeight()], 0, index * ???);
    });
    
    // This is the sensitivity of the rotation
    widget.data.sensitivity = 300;
    
    // Save the down value as reference for all drag deltas
    widget.data.downValue = 0.0;
    
    widget.setMouseCallback(function(event)
    {
        if(event.clicked)
        {
            // Store the current value for reference when dragging
            this.data.downValue = this.getValue();
        }
        
        if(event.drag)
        {
            // Use both axis to allow diagonal drag behaviour
            var delta = event.dragX + -1.0 * event.dragY;
            
            // normalize the delta using the given sensitivity
            var deltaNormalized = delta / this.data.sensitivity;
            
            // Calculate the new value and truncate it to 0...1
            var newValue = this.data.downValue + deltaNormalized;
            newValue = newValue - Math.floor(newValue);
            
            // Update the panel
            this.setValue(newValue);
            this.changed();
            this.repaint();
        }
    });
    
    return widget;
};

const sprite = createHeadSprite("LOOPPANEL", X, Y);

//	timer for animation (FPS)
reg count = 0;
sprite.setTimerCallback(function()
{
	count = (count+1) % 24;
	this.setValue(count * 1/24);
	this.changed();
});
//Speed
sprite.startTimer(62); //Play with this to set speed

Hope that helps someone out!

@d-healey I saw in another thread you advised someone to check the pool to see how much memory the bitmaps were using (if I understood correctly at least!). Created a popup window, Image pool table, although looking at it now it might not be showing the full size as hise sees it.

@ulrik Thank you! Thank works beautifully - I had a few issues but I've got it going smoothly and it looks killer. Thank you to you all.

RE memory usage, I cropped the dead space from the video when I converted it to a film strip, according to the image pool table it looks like it's using around 100mb RAM, much better than expected.

@d-healey Once again thanks for your help - is there a way we can update the documentation to reflect the fix above? Or can only Christopher do that?

@Soundavid Thanks for your response!
I already have multithreading and 'Rebuild Pool Files' enabled as I suspected they might help! I hadn't cleaned my build folder, I've done that now and recompiled and ITS WORKING! Thank you so much for your help.
Just as a learning moment - did I do something wrong here? How often should I be cleaning my build directories?

@David-Healey that's sorted it mate thank you! I set Projucer to Release with Faust but opening in Xcode, it was still trying to build the debug build. Changed to Release with Faust in Xcode and it's up and running (though did get a security error from the Faust dylib when I tried launching first time)

Howdy Hise Homies!

I use a Mac primarily and find using knobman online to be pretty unreliable in Safari, I got sick of running Knobman in parallels because it was really slow for my (niche) use case.
I saw Christoph professing how good Claude had gotten so I decided to give it a little go and ended up making KnobForge, a Knobman alternative with some extra bits added in that I use all the time but that take me ages - they now take me minutes!

https://www.nevermoreaudio.co.uk/knobforge

What is KnobForge -
Basically it does what knobman does - you can layer shapes, lighting and shadow effects etc to create your own knob designs, render them into a sprite sheet of up to 360 steps at 500x500 each, and then preview that knob in the canvas area before you download it.
KnobForge can also do what I in my head have always called 'Arc Knobs' where the body of the knob is invisible and turning the knob up and down reveals and hides an arc/circle around the body - hope that makes any sense. Sweep mode will show what I mean!

What ELSE is KnobForge -
I'm developing a brand for my plugin releases that is very much "Poe-esk" - it's all a bit hopefully-not-cheesy-gothic, ink on parchment and so on. I wanted to convert some stock footage ink blotting videos into sprite sheets that I could then control via timers etc in HISE for UI purposes.
SO - back to KnobForge - it can:
Read a short video
Strip it down frame by frame
Strip the background from those frames in 3 different ways with controllable tolerances
Build those frames into a sprite sheet of up to 500x500 per image (Browser limitation)
Preview that sprite sheet as a knob in canvas (heavily scaled, you'll need to download it to see the full resolution sheet)

You can also do the above with images - got a pedal in your house with a cool knob? Take a top down photo, pop it into knobforge, strip the background and generate a sprite sheet!

Known issues;
With really large sheets - like 360 Frame 500x500 sheets, you sometimes have to click generate twice - the first time looks like it's worked, but it's not quite there. Click generate, go back to the design tab, click 'use as source' again and then regenerate the sheet - this should then work. This is due to the way it has to encode and decode the image, it's not the end of the world just something worth knowing.

Other stuff:
I've compiled this into a Mac app using HISE WebView and it works great, I don't think I'm allowed to publish it here due to the HISE license agreement but I'm honestly not sure so if Christoph sees this maybe he can shed some light, I don't want to tag him as he's busy enough already without my nonsense :)

Hopefully this helps someone out, this community is packed with absolute legends and I just want to give back in some way!
I take no credit for this, all I did was lob prompts at Claude for 3 days,

https://www.nevermoreaudio.co.uk/knobforge

EXAMPLE SPRITES (you can use these however you like, go nuts):
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/6qawfu5nymxqgfbp9rz4x/ALt0mXkKsj178W6ZRCArbpU?rlkey=d3zhx3rvolqd12nwscm7cci8x&st=rma1k8rs&dl=0

Hi!

I've been out for a bit so I'm getting back into things by working on a real-time granulator in Scriptnode. To my complete surprise I've actually managed to make some progress, I have grains, pitch control etc working. The issue I'm encountering is that the Recorder node is recording incoming audio, the file player is playing them back, but because there's no envelope control there's lots of clicks and pops happening at the start of each cycle/grain.
Is there a way of adding any processing to the external audio slot/audio buffer to counteract this?

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@David-Healey that's sorted it mate thank you! I set Projucer to Release with Faust but opening in Xcode, it was still trying to build the debug build. Changed to Release with Faust in Xcode and it's up and running (though did get a security error from the Faust dylib when I tried launching first time)

@David-Healey Let me try and rebuild as release and see what we get....

@dannytaurus Can you chuck me a link for the git submodule? I'm 90% sure I did pull from this already but I'll do it again to be safe!

@David-Healey yeah it's a debug build

Hey all, it's been a while!
I've moved this week from an Intel Mac to an apple silicon one, I've compiled the newest version of HISE from the develop branch, dropped JUCE 6 into the JUCE path etc etc - all good.

Creating new projects, everything works as expected.
Opening all my projects from my old machine is extremely slow. Compiling scripts at project launch takes minutes, audio never initialises and doesn't work at all.
Trying to compile the interface script takes over 5 minutes for some projects where it should be almost instant.
Have I done something wrong here? It seems to be something to do with the old project folders/files - as the new ones are behaving normally?

@d-healey hello! Yeah I tried implementing the custom automation handler in the snippet further up this thread but I get a load of errors (also further up). Do you know why the XY knobs don’t produce automation when controlled by the panel but they do when controlled directly? Seems like that might be the simplest thing to fix and would give the automation parameters I need too.

@Lurch gentle bump - still stuck on this one.

@Lindon My thoughts exactly, I'm not sure why using the panel to move the knobs doesn't generate automation when directly manipulating the knobs does - I thought calling changed(); was functionally the same thing.

@Lindon the XY knobs are declared as plugin parameters and produce automation when automation is enabled/recording in a DAW, this is great.
Using the XY panel to manipulate the knobs does not produce automation in the same scenario, despite it manipulating the knobs as seen in the snippet.