I love the amazing variety of backgrounds we all have on here! It’s a pleasure to virtually meet you all :)
Brian here - I am a Video game and film composer, multi-instrumentalist and sound designer, 42 yrs old and based in Montreal.
I am very much inspired very much by nature and ancient cultures, and how we can transmit and transform them musically using interactive technologies in a conscious way.
Feliz Navidad to all of you as well! Exited to be part of such a great community and looking forward to seeing ( and playing) the magical instruments that we are all going to create in the year to come :)
Happy Holidays everyone, I've been quietly 'lurking' in the background as Christoph likes to say :face_with_tears_of_joy: , but I hope to be more active here going forward.
And what an absolutely brilliant addition with RNBO @Christoph-Hart! Your amazing work has changed all our lives for the better! :)
@ulrik @Christoph-Hart Yeah I just got into it now and its sweeet! Its drop-dead simple to animate and export, and for simple design work its also not too shaby. The bonus is that it also does PNG image sequences that work with HISE knobs, so you can just pick your flavour of poison if you need flex both ;)
For OSx peeps, here is a cheaper app that I just found for 30$
Still gotta put it through the paces, but the interesting one is that it claims it can even edit already existing animations in Lottie format.
Yeah this will save allot of time and headaches! Along with @d-healey ‘s suggestions my vote is for the preset browser .
@hisefilo @d-healey This course is also a good one ( and its free )
https://www.kadenze.com/courses/real-time-audio-signal-processing-in-faust/info
@alepan I was in the same position as you and I did find some really good tutorials that focus on the pure basics of Javascript and functional logic for noobs like us, and the bonus is that it's free!
https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn
JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures Certification - Basic JavaScript
I also studied this other course in tandem which is made by some Google peeps and runs on all platforms, including IOS/Android ( so I can study while commuting )
Once you go over the basics on either of these courses then David's video is a great segway into HISE Scripting :)
I have been doing this course and so far it’s been awesome, he offers them every few weeks
https://www.programmingformusicians.com/pfmcpp/
@LeeC its me to thank you and @ustk ! I learnt allot from this as well and it solved a major problem on my end with the instrument that I am developing :)
Hi @Christoph-Hart, I have been getting deep into using HISE and see great potential for it in the coming future! One of them is the possibilities that could open up in using it within Unity. From what I see JUCE is starting to support it https://juce.com/discover/stories/unity-native-plug-in-support , so I am wondering if it could be possible to open up that JUCE feature to also create a HISE build on it? If so I would be more than happy to help test it out :)
@DabDab co.limiter_1176_R4_stereo IS co.compressor but with fixed values to serve as an example, the script I provided gives control parameters to that exact compression algorithm.
Thank you @Christoph-Hart & @Matt_SF ! ( Just waking up here on North American time ). I'll be on standby to download and test the fixes, super excited to see this work and try some crazy DSP experiments :)
@ulrik @d-healey Major lesson learnt! I had been doing some tests with building a swift app on my iPhone and somehow it was still doing it with HISE! So always double-check if you have any outputs activated
in Xcode>Window > Devices and Simulators.
Although now I did find a major bug on an instrument we are building, so I will do a separate post on that.
Thank you for all the great help!
@d-healey You are a legend! Thanks so much mate! I have to get you properly drunk as a thank you next time I am in your hood! :folded_hands_medium_skin_tone: :folded_hands_medium_skin_tone: :folded_hands_medium_skin_tone: 
@clumsybear Glad that you are enjoying this new process!
I would avoid using png sequences if you can do it with Lottie - png sequences take up a lot of memory if you are not careful.
As for the issues you are experiencing, I have not used drop shadows yet so it might be an issue. You can perhaps try importing to Adobe XD or Illustrator, then to AE, which in theory should be a one to one conversion ( let me know if that works if you do indeed do this ).
I would also test the Bodymovin .JSON output in the HISE rlottie app to make sure it is also translating correctly ( or use this online version http://rlottie.com/)
And to keep an eye on the compatibility list on https://github.com/Samsung/rlottie to make sure you are only using supported features.
@clumsybear Here is an article that describes my workflow in great detail using Sketch to AE ( I figured this out by myself and then stumbled on this doh ). For a static UI element, a one frame composition works fine from my initial tests.
https://uxplanet.org/tricks-and-tips-to-work-with-lottie-7781ed4bec74
Once you have the .JSON export file from Bodymovin, copy and paste the code into the rLottie demo app that is available in the latest scriptnode build and compress it into a HISE snippet.Once you have this use the looping rLottie animation code provided in the documentation and then paste the compressed snippet in the magic line, compile and voila - you have your design just how you did it in Sketch!
There are a few limitations on using fancy multiple gradients and effects etc. that you have to watch for, but other than that, you can save countless hours of manual rebuilding with this method if you have sophisticated designs.
