I have read somewhere that you need to get permission and/or pay for the use of brands in your promotional materials.

Does anyone have advice for this?

Would mentioning specific types of equipment be risky? I.e - Juno 106, ReVox A77.

Would saying the virtual instrument was inspired by pieces of equipment like an MPC (without mentioning AKAI) or saying Stratocaster style guitar also be risky?

If you haven't gotten permission or paid the brands, would it be advised to hide/put a piece of tape over the brand name on a piece of equipment, in visual advertisements? I.e tape over the ReVox logo if you had a video of the machine in your promotional material.

I want to be transparent with the quality of equipment used, but also want to avoid any trouble from big brands.

Would love some advice if anyone has encountered this when releasing plug-ins.

Ngā mihi,
Sam

@d-healey

After opening in Xcode and reading through some of the errors it looked like it was to do with samples.

Deleted the samples and the Standalone App opened.

Time to watch the rest of your Hackspace tutorials!

Thanks!

@cassettedeath Scratch that

Incase anyone encounters the same issue I did, I used

var  myPresetList = Engine.getUserPresetList();
const var RandomPreset = Content.getComponent("RandomPreset");

inline function onRandomPresetControl(component, value)
{
    if(value)
    {
        // Get the current list of presets from disk
        local presets = Engine.getUserPresetList();
        
        if(presets.length > 0)
        {
            // Pick a random index
            local index = Math.floor(Math.random() * presets.length);
            
            // Load it by name with the .preset extension
            Engine.loadUserPreset(presets[index] + ".preset");
        }
        else
        {
            Console.print("No user presets available.");
        }
    }
}

RandomPreset.setControlCallback(onRandomPresetControl);

@ustk I tested it on OS 15.(Something) - The JUCE forum post mentioned Ventura... I'm still running 12.7 incase you wanted to send a new build to test without the Zoom Handler/resize

@Chazrox "Plug-in is gonna suck for the following users;"

I’m fairly new to Hise, but when I studied music technology I was introduced to Juce and did my honours research on how music technology can be more accessible for blind individuals - the main reason for that interest being I’m going blind myself.

Native Instruments are leading the way in terms of accessibility and software instruments. I believe this sits around Native Kontrol Standard.

It’s very important to me that my instruments are screen-reader accessible. The Zoom handler script is awesome and will be great for users with low-vision.

I believe Juce has some accessibility tools, but I haven’t looked too far into this and how that might implement this into my Hise projects.

Is there any plans to implement screen-reader accessibility development tools in Hise? Alternative text would be an amazing addition, but accessibility is often hard to retrofit.

Thanks @Christoph-Hart ! :)

@d-healey Thank you! :)

@d-healey Just for consistency really... The add expansions icon isn't the most intuitive, and I would rather have all and not some :D

Is there a way to set the tooltip info for preset browser icons like favourite / save etc?

@cassettedeath Scratch that

Incase anyone encounters the same issue I did, I used

var  myPresetList = Engine.getUserPresetList();
const var RandomPreset = Content.getComponent("RandomPreset");

inline function onRandomPresetControl(component, value)
{
    if(value)
    {
        // Get the current list of presets from disk
        local presets = Engine.getUserPresetList();
        
        if(presets.length > 0)
        {
            // Pick a random index
            local index = Math.floor(Math.random() * presets.length);
            
            // Load it by name with the .preset extension
            Engine.loadUserPreset(presets[index] + ".preset");
        }
        else
        {
            Console.print("No user presets available.");
        }
    }
}

RandomPreset.setControlCallback(onRandomPresetControl);

@d-healey Seemingly working for me, although it’s trying to load old presets that I’ve deleted and showing an error.

Doesn’t seem to be a refresh or clear function…

Do you know which file I might be able to delete to clear the preset list?

I’ve tried cleaning the build directory

@Chazrox I was finding the built in arp wasn't staying in time with the DAW so I started implementing the clock synced arp that is in the example snippets.

I would test your plug-in in a DAW to check how it behaves with the metronome/starting and stopping with the hold on etc

@Chazrox are you using / have you tried the Synced Arpeggiator script example?

@d-healey Decided to work from a backup - cheers David!

@d-healey Changing between projects - and if I add the zoom handler script to projects I generally have to recompile projects after opening. Generally just crashing randomly after compiling

@d-healey That's it really.. Hise crashes a lot so I generally save the project after I change anything and recompile.