@DabDab @d-healey @Straticah @ulrik @vstboy3000 @Matt_SF @DanH @orange @lalalandsynth (I made sure to @ everyone on this thread)

I like how people contribute here, and it's a pretty great community so far and I appreciate all the help; so I wanted to give back something.

In this posting, I love those knobs, but they're purple, they may not match the existing theme of the UI. If you want to take hours off your life modifying each one, you could, but rather than that I wrote a shell script that I think will help. This allows you to modify the hue, saturation and brightness of an image via ImageMagick. I included some safety governors, a run directory (to preserve the source images from change) and also logging. This will modify a directory full of frames for as many as you have in the directory.

Here are some examples:

Original Knob:

[huemod]: Knob Dabdab_00000.png - Brightness: 200 | Saturation: 100 | Hue: 150

[huemod]: Knob Dabdab_00000.png - Brightness: 200 | Saturation: 100 | Hue: 190

[huemod]: Knob Dabdab_00000.png - Brightness: 100 | Saturation: 50 | Hue: 50

This has also been tested with Strip Generator.exe (and believe it or not it runs under WINE)

The script can be found here: https://uploadnow.io/f/prc7nSH (updated link)

Enjoy!

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@d-healey Ah sweet! Thank you David :) We need to get some HISE Merch made including a shirt that says "In Healey We Trust" :)

--FD1

@d-healey

IN HEALEY WE TRUST <3

Sir,

T H A N K Y O U !!!

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Hi @d-healey,

I know this might be a gross misuse of the framework for Rhapsody, but I wanted to ask if it were possible to just use the Rhapsody framework as an FX plugin?

1. Load Rhapsody Template
2. Insert FX chain
3. Create some macros and link them to sliders/knobs
4. Compile

Would that work? I know it's likely going to appear as a VSTi ( I wasn't sure if this was something we could feature request for a future release, leverage the framework just for FX)

Again I know it likely sounds disgusting :) but I wanted to ask. Thanks!

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@Christoph-Hart Thank you sir! Are there any plans to add a toggle in the UI ? I was digging for that one but the hot-key is fantastic. :)

@d-healey Pencil click for the win. Thank you sensei. Your HISE-fu is master level! :)

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@Straticah Thank you for reposting these!

@d-healey Hi David,

Thank you for providing this link. From what the topics cover, i'm about 1/2 way there, if you plan on doing one in the future could I suggest a few possible topics?

• VST and Effects implementation/Design
• Scripting/Callbacks in the guise of Design and Control
• Customizing controls with lottie (as per your videos) Or the entire UI (as per my request in this thread)
• OSX builds (this i've already going through and worked through this part with the help of you and of the forum users --there are some interesting gotchas)
• Packaging your VST (with either pkgbuild, productbuild or "Packages")

Honestly, if you covered these points in your new one (aside from whatever else you may include) I would buy into BOTH of these Masterclasses 100%. Just my $0.02 but I'd love to see detailed examples of all of the above, granted you do cover some of these in videos out there already (which is awesome.)

Thanks.

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@aaronventure Very cool! If there was some sort of Masterclass, that's ideal in the sense it give you the basic fundamentals vs trying to figure out piece by piece and then getting lost in the sauce.

I also don't want it "now" or "yesterday" -- keep in mind, I mentioned I'd do the work or what's required to get there. I just need direction,which if there is a masterclass available, I think that would be the best starting point for me, rather than just fumbling around with HISE and then piece-meal research on each thing i'm trying to build with no basis for a groundwork, and clearly yes it's not Roblox :)

There is no time frame for this, besides, hiring someone on Fiverr for $500/engagement is always an option if I had a really cool idea but I'd also just buy a plugin that did that already vs. buying someone elses code and calling it my own; that's not the goal.

I think you've answered my question to be honest and i'll dig check out the links you provided and also see about the masterclass. Thanks.

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@aaronventure Thanks for chiming in on this one.

I'm all for doing the work, I just don't know in which direction to go. I'm not really a developer (I'm more a sysadmin/Linux/bash/ansible automation engineer) - That said, I also produce music and run a label.

When it comes down to breaking out the code editor, obviously you folks are hardcore ninjas. That said, I primary have used HISE just to chain multiple effects, match controls and UI to those under the hood settings and also learn a bit more about the actual knob control, or generating filmstrips for UI, etc etc. The WYSIWYG portion of HISE has been pretty cool, but i'm still for the most part a novice, so when it comes down to writing actual code to make this thing do anything useful, i'm still very green.

That said, I think maybe, it would be a benefit (and it's already been done a number of times here) that if someone comes up with an idea, (in this case me) if others on the forum would be willing to pitch in, I'd gladly do the bits that I know how to do but also work with individuals that are interested in this type of project. It's a very simple concept of a VST that literally the input volume/bands/whatever you want to key it off of would legit just animate the UI. I think others may find this type of thing useful, but again I have 0 starting point. David and I spoke briefly about AHDSR as I was trying to build an envelope but turns out the only way I may be able to do that is using script node. I've got lots of great ideas, but I think assistance in implementing them is really where the rubber meets the road. Keeping full in mind, i'm totally OK with generating lottie's and writing things that manipulate UI's and all that kind of thing. So, I guess in some cases, maybe a gentleman's agreement of "If you can help me with X I would gladly help you with Y" at least for project design and other such things. As mentioned i'm still pretty green, so anyone who's interested in lending a hand to at least get this simple plugin off the ground leveraging this type of function, I would completely assist them with whatever I could in the guise of elements for their projects. (maybe that's a better way to sell it hehe)

The Plugin "Idea" is legit a gain plugin, keying off the incoming volume, to then play the lottie (which is a lottie of a rumbling image) -- That's all it is. I had plans to release it for free; aside from a few of the others I'm working on.

Anyhow, thanks for reading my long note. If you are willing to help, cool, if not, understood :)

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@d-healey Ah! Yeah dude, i'm still a padawan level HISE user, so I don't think "from scratch" would be an ideal project for me at present :) But, as long as there was some movement generated, I wouldn't mind keying it off incoming volume. Is there something you can suggest I peek at in an effort to key off that and feed that into the LAF? BTW i'm I'm thinking of making the LAF the entire UI, so the entire device is going to be animated, when the volume level hits (Granted I don't need to display the volume, just key off the value, from there I could figure out via the frames or the other variable to show the animation so it doesn't look like it's skipping)

Anyway! Any help would be greatly appreciated just as a starting point. Thanks!

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Hi All,

I had an idea after watching @d-healey's video on Lottie animations and controls[1]..

Would it be possible, to adjust the lottie animation, and have that key off of Analyzer (for example, music goes through your VST or device, the lottie animation now moves/bounces with the audio)

In David's awesome tutorial, it shows how to map a knob, generate the proper callbacks and also hide the knob, giving the illusion that the "skateboard dude" is the control.

i've got the lottie built already, I just need to figure out how to tie in the audio variable of the spectrum/scope and make that drive the animation.

Thanks again in advance.

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[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aFbxEY2eRQ

@d-healey Thank you David!

@d-healey Oh wow -- this is sick dude. I've never tinkered with ScriptFX/Scriptnode because I'm still a HISE padawan-learner. That said, my only follow up question about Scriptnode is this, I've managed to find the simple ADSR and added it to my project.

How exactly would one now connect the controls that i've already got in place (keeping in mind I did this with the UI and i've got everything mapped and working perfectly although it's controlling the AHDSR controls for the waveform gen. I can easily port those configs to a NEW set of objects (by hand)

Am I on the right track? Do you happen to know of a tutorial you have or something I can look at to guide me through Script Node? Thanks!

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@d-healey I thought so, I wasn't sure if it would just bypass the generator and allow me to use the envelope. That said, I did look at the Simple Gain:

There's no option for it - Envelopes are grayed out. Is there some kind of Healey-Fu I need to be applying to this idea? Thanks !

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@d-healey - I had one quick follow up question about this one.

I created a Waveform Generator - Added the ADSR to the chain under Gain modulation. Now, if i compile this, and add this to an FX chain on another instrument (within my DAW) will this then apply the ADSR to that instrument? I'm about to test it but what worries me is the waveform generator is just sitting dormant, and I'm not really using it for that purpose (make a synth etc) -- i'm legit just looking to make a VST that's just an ADSR (if that helps colorize what i'm trying to attempt) Thanks again in advance :)

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