@bendurso Today I learned that right-clicking a module in edit mode shows a different context menu to right-clicking not in edit mode.

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!

@aaronventure said in Quick F5 tip for Mac users:

@d-healey Hold Shift while typing to amplify my anger.

Exactly this! Left pinky on the SHIFT and hammer those keys!

Same on iOS. Instead of double-tapping the shift key to lock it, I shift uppercase every character, just so it makes me more angry!

@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)

I had a hard time making the my MacBook keyboard F5 trigger Compile in HISE.

I tried fudging with all the keyboard/accessibility/dictation settings but the F5 key still wouldn't 'just be F5'. Seems like the usual 'Apple knows best' thing where you can't quite override the intended behaviour.

So I just installed a small free Mac app Karabiner-Elements and now I have a real F5 key!

Process:

1. Download and install Karabiner-Elements
2. Do all the system settings required for it to run in the background
3. Open the app and head to Function Keys
4. Change F5 from 'Dictation' to Function Keys > F5
5. Compile away!

I don't usually install apps for things like this but I really couldn't find a way to do this in the macOS system settings.

No idea if anyone will find this useful, but I needed it for my own plugin so I made a PR.

Use MatrixPeakMeter itemColour3 to colour the overs in the max peak display

If itemColour3 is defined for a MatrixPeakMeter (or rather, it has alpha) it will be used to colour the overs (>= 0.99f) in the max peaks.

I found myself wanting to colour the overs in red for the peak meter component. Initially I hardcoded them as red but later noticed itemColour3 isn't used for anything for this component, so it was an easy addition.

Use MatrixPeakMeter itemColour3 to colour the overs in the max peak display by weavermedia · Pull Request #759 · christophhart/HISE

If itemColour3 is defined for a MatrixPeakMeter (or rather, it has alpha) it will be used to colour the peaks in the max peaks. I found myself wanting to colour the peak overs in red for the peak m...

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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).

@tsempire Try this script from @d-healey . It works for me. Smooth glides.

Mono Glide

@dannytaurus You might be right actually, I was misremembering the script (or maybe thinking of another). Here's a snippet demonstrating it - the retrigger f...

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@candlefields said in Feature Request: Crossfade in Audio Loop Player:

@paper_lung If the release knob is adjusted correctly the clicks and pops are vanished...I mean minor knob movements..so as at the end of the sample you somehow fade it down...Have you tried it?

Using a AHDSR on an Audio Loop player won't fix clicks and pops when the sample loops during playback.

A crossfade option on the Audio Loop Player itself would fix it.

I'm using audio loops as background textures so they don't need perfect looping but crossfades would be super useful. Currently I have to hardcode a crossfade before I bring the sample into HISE. Not great when I want to keep trying different samples.

@ustk said in Hise 5 & Compilation Flags:

But still it'd cool if we don't have to run and maintain our own doc

+1 million

@d-healey That wasn't my experience at all. Search the internet for "GPT5 fails" and you'll see all the negative reactions.

In my case it was very slow, showed way too much 'thinking' text, refused to execute terminal commands and had a much higher hallucination rate than previous GPT versions or Claude.

Keep in mind, this wasn't with HISE. This was mainly in a Ruby on Rails app with ~30k LOC and a bunch of other much smaller projects. I haven't used AI for HISE at all yet, mainly because I don't think there's enough HISE code out there for it to give really useful answers.

For casual stuff it might be fine, but for coding - and in particular in the Cursor IDE, it was horrible.

@Oli-Ullmann gpt-5 was terrible for me initially. I switched back to claude-sonnet after a few days. Then I heard gpt-5-fast was decent, so I enabled that and it's been fine.

Overall, claude-4-sonnet has been consistently good for me for coding for the last several months.

I think they rushed gpt-5 out too soon. Seen some horror stories about its performance.

@d-healey If you try Bungee let us know how you get on. I'm very interested in Bungee Pro. The demos on the web sound great. The transient retention is excellent.

@d-healey Excellent

@tsempire I'm very happy to subscribe but please consider offering payment methods other than PayPal.

Stripe is easy to integrate and is overall a much nicer company to deal with than PayPal.

@d-healey said in HISE Bootcamp - Full Course for Beginners:

I can enable this, but then the system will wrap the YouTube video in its own player and we lose access to the subtitles annoyingly. So for now I'm valuing subtitles over convenience.

Good call

I like to 1.5x pretty much everything on YouTube so I'm watching them outside of the course page anyway for now. I'm sure when the content gets more in-depth I'll want to properly track where I'm at.

Kudos on doing all the fixes so quickly!

BTW, respect for putting this out for free. I would've happily paid £50 for this bootcamp course. I can't wait for the next lot of videos. CHARGE FOR THEM!

@d-healey said in HISE Bootcamp - Full Course for Beginners:

Can't mark videos as complete in the UI - assuming that's what the checkbox inputs are for?

Top right corner above the video - someone reported that this button was showing as white text on a white background so I fixed it this morning.

Ah, gotcha. I assumed the checkbox inputs next to the video names were where we're supposed to make them as complete.

Might be cool if they're marked as complete automatically, as the videos are watched.