Alright I was able to get my plugin signed and Wrapped in AAX! This was a heck of a process but Im here to do what @Lindon said to me in this topic here: https://forum.hise.audio/topic/8151/help-with-aax-willing-to-pay/12 and "pay it forward"....I did share all this in that particular post. But I figured I'd do this as a separate new post so when someone is searching for AAX and how to codesign their plugin they will find this post directly and not have to sift through 100 other threads like I did....

These bullet notes are process as @Lindon laid out in the pervious post.. But I'll expound on these points as much as I can without compromising the confidentiality of the PACE agreement:

1. Join the Avid Developer Program:

You'll need to follow the instructions here: https://www.avid.com/alliance-partner-program/how-to-apply

You'll need to do this even if you don't want to sell on the Avid Marketplace. Im not planning to at all

2. When you're in download the Developer version of ProTools (so you cant test your unsigned AAX plugins):

Once your in you'll see a section in your Avid account for Developers like this:

This is where you'll be able to download the PT Dev Version/the Current AAX SDKs you'll need to export your project with.

3. Email your Avid representative telling them you want to use the PACE EDEN tool kit:

It was a runaround to find this email but the official email to email is audiosdk@avid.com

4. When they send you and email for a pace person email them asking for the tool kit:

They will verify you as an Avid Dev and then you'll need to tell them that you need a license for PT Developer. You CAN'T run PT Dev without a license...it DOES NOT work even if you are already a PT Studio or Ultimate subscriber. They will connect you with the department to give you this and they will tell you the criteria for how to submit to them verification of your unsigned plugin running in PT Developer. Once you do this then they will connect you with the PACE person.

5. Sign and return the NDA they send you:

This will be apart of the earlier step of signing up as a Dev.

6. Install the license they send you onto your USB iLok:

You're gonna need a physical ilok to do this so pick one up if you don't have one...you can do it through ilok cloud...but it's going to cost $$$$...your gonna need this heavy for every step past this! They will email you all of the steps needed to access the PACE Central site and how to get the license on your iLok.

7. Read the silly amount of documentation!

It really is a silly amount...probably about 80 or so pages. But everything you need is in there...it is a literal step by step walk though on how to sign the plugin. This is the part that is Confidential and covered under the NDA so I can't speak about the step by step. But I will say that it is a very detailed walkthrough and you'll be good if you follow the instructions to a "T" ...I didn't have to read through the full 80+ pages because not all of it is relative to signing. But I had to take my time and walk through each step. Took me a couple of hours, results may vary depending on how fast you read/are competent with implementing the steps...I took my time

8. Use the iLok License to get to the web site:

As stated before you'll need a physical iLok to access the Pace site...there's no other way in
but once in there are explicit instructions on what to do. As long as you read everything you won't get lost.

9. Generate your signing code:

Again I won't spoil too much of the process but you do need to be fairly comfortable with the command line/Terminal on Mac. The process was actually pretty simple cause they give you explicit instructions on how to do this in the manual. But I got into a tough spot cause I'm not as good with the command line...I did however email the support team at PACE and they were VERY responsive in helping me fix the issues in my terminal commands...so if you get stuck just email them and they will get you out of the mud!

10. Sign your plugin with the pace EDEN tool kit and your signing code:

The biggest problem I ran into was the signing certificate...I tried my darnedest for about a day to get a Self-signed Certificate running and I kept failing...So I broke down and just bought the Dev account from Apple for $100...generated an official signing certificate from them and that worked. If you've got more ninja skills than me you probably can make the self-sign work...I didn't have the patience to keep banging my head...paid solution just worked...I did however get stuck one more time with it right at the LAST step because there were some permission issues with the Apple certificates. This is a common issue but the people at PACE support sent me to this forum:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48911289/warning-unable-to-build-chain-to-self-signed-root-for-signer-warning-in-xcode

And I literally just went down the page trying everything that people reported as "this worked for me" until it finally "Worked for me also" I can't tell you exactly which process worked...and It may have actually been combination of trying multiple solutions. But after that the signing process literally took 10 seconds and my signed plugin opened perfectly in the official version of PT Studio. No Issues! Hope this helps someone and saves them the 8-months it took me to figure all this out!

For all you guys/gals that use Logic's built-in auto sampler I Just stumbled across this great tool for converting Autosampled .EXS files to .SFZ for import into the Hise sampler! it's really quick and easy and just saved me from importing a 400+ multi-sampled piano by hand... you just import the .EXS file and then click export then put the .sfz file it exported into the same folder where the samples are then import into HISE...took seconds and works great! Hope this helps someone!

https://www.bjoernbojahr.de/exs2sfz.html

here's another snippet contribution! I needed to create some "key commands" for lack of a better phrase that could press various buttons on my interface to say "mute channel 1" by pressing 1 or open preferences by pressing "P" so on and so forth...this snippet has 25 buttons assigned to 25 various keys on the computer keyboard(all noted in code) im utilizing the

setConsumedKeyPresses

so feel free to tweak and add whatever keys you want these were just keys I used for my project...

The only thing I couldn't work out was the "Shift" or "Command" or "Option" modifiers so I could press Shift +1 or Cmd + G or something like that.... feel free to take a crack at it or tweak/fix my logic...still learning! big shoutout to @ulrik for "teaching me to fish" on this one!

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Big Thanks to @Lindon he helped me figure this out! Got it to compile and open in Pro Tools Developer on M1 Mac! :love-you_gesture_dark_skin_tone:

Just giving back here...I was searching the forum trying to find info on how to create a button that would disable the 'saveinPreset' on another button. I needed to be able to bypass the function on a "tempo knob" that controls the internal bpm of the midi player...so that users(in the standalone application Im building) could bypass the internal bpm and just use the host bpm when scrolling through presets(in standalone) I couldn't really find anything direct...but I was able to stitch this together from reading a few other posts/snippets...it works! I thought I'd just throw it on here to help someone else that may need to do something like this in their project...Im sure there's a probably a better/cleaner way to do this...so feel free to tweak this if my logic is wrong/bad...but it otherwise works in my project

HiseSnippet 1009.3ocsV0saaaCElxwpX1aqaEnO.D4JGrfD6s1tgFLzV6jL30lTi4rfcWAszQ1DQlzfjJYtE8krWsGi8FrcHojsTsiSlAlPPrHO+78wORcNbfRFAZsTQBZbw7Y.I3qBGNWXlzaBiKH8OlD7vvyXZCnn9o5NeFSqgXRPvN+hchfF0Itm+9EcYoLQDrbJB4RIOBdCeJ2rb1Au707zzSYwvE7ok79IurejTzSlJyP9rSXaxLVzUrwv4Lqa0BIAO3jXtQpFZXFPSBp2UFOe3D4MBu+Wx07QofcPGxPLQ9oOUlFaYrcVRuI7z3AEqaMAyxfkpvNdU3wgmwi4KleoZ7sNCzkQTVOBpUkd6TgdctM5sFJEThR08T5QgCiT7YlkVr74KC6KvMmDFJ6koh2WRsWTOrmD8PXNXJ6J3TENXQDsdV616Sw+s2QMO7PZOEf7lxnixLFofZj3eiGmBTM6ZnuXfBzfglHUTCLcl70hQMwMLsgdMS474Bm6cMB5OSKfcLX5IQuE3fV6Vwqc26HJha2EvABFpOGFy01eq.aIjJ.+VAovg77ewDnXIcCPugIL2AVTonoUP5K3FNKk+9Mn.zQLTxoV9ivv8QP01S.TYRUUoYQPGfYwqEE4b28q5pcEcIKMCZsmeQLDbr1BRTlRgqSTKP6qBRybuQAynjozHVZ5H7CIOsw3y2T8RRStHkK.ZRlHxvwkgTLrb554yRqnB4ceOt607CMo3SNXUkujaQdjhCkII2l5XS2FUHOvG4br.72HGWQTr4NS6Vqwvnrwi4hwNewEhVlBGLSwEeVpobMUHu44zcoe2BP9nSHekVyG6I+J5ItcTcATcGTaOS5BoWdDsVu1hfUR8OWZf2JZY02FHInetojj0ZKOWofZslsUZUaJvVhroi.UocWmiX4mp0zdv8qlVj+CyRNJE1Omd6LHe7lKJSx+xFe626eLyvrEEymC8aFnLbKcBNFtF6v3KQ1H7XPekQNCaVrnb.IHz3r9v7Bn9xMDNh82DVYKi7mnyA+Jh4b6KWguT9XhstJ4dk2lgEmi8o7SEo7uVIkKaURVslO1sQFmkxLUaAY66la.2CqT22VaWn4l4k6K+enuT6M1W59RwGENfahlrdNVaMbD2c++fi4cy+5vSRRfHyRBVO7z+XaaceGv+axLCVy4LlQwsa9mmMcHdglH.QWHfTs8bPM6Ib+311wVEXHHhcC9G7I2XG63fbicJLRlxhTx2kWPxdeguvMCxIg6pRMv6rgiocHtulKqySwqu7tnnpoZk.+9sMveXaC7IaafOcaC7Yaaf+31F3Oc2AZuc4qxLxo9OaHjyFbhq7WPvItKr3NsR9W.5l9c1A

Messing around with the audio render snippet example in the snippet browser....works fine in the example...but when I bring it into my project...it doesn't render anything but dead space...and then the audio in HISE becomes completely disabled and I have to restart to get it back working....im trying to get it to render a preloaded midi file instead of the one that's created by the example...here's the code ive added in the attempt to make it work....

Content.makeFrontInterface(510, 160);

const var DELETE_TEMP_FILE = false;

const var SeqView = Content.addPanel("SeqView", 0, 90);
SeqView.set("width", 210);

const var AudioDragger = Content.addPanel("Dragger", 0, 32);
AudioDragger.set("width", 210);

AudioDragger.set("allowCallbacks", "Clicks & Hover");

const var MidiPlayer = Synth.getMidiPlayer("MIDI Player1");

AudioDragger.setMouseCallback(function(event) {
    this.data.hover = event.hover;
    this.repaint();

    if (event.clicked) {
        if (isDefined(this.data.tempFile)) {
            var fToDelete = this.data.tempFile;

            this.startExternalFileDrag(this.data.tempFile, true, function [fToDelete]() {
                if (DELETE_TEMP_FILE) {
                    Console.print("DELETE " + fToDelete.toString(0));
                    fToDelete.deleteFileOrDirectory();
                }
            });
        } else {
            Console.print("! You need to click on render first.");
        }
    }
});

// Button to Begin Rendering
const var Button1 = Content.addButton("Button1", 0, 0);
Button1.set("text", "Render");
Button1.set("isMomentary", true);
Button1.set("saveInPreset", false);
Button1.set("width", 210);

Button1.setControlCallback(onButton1Control);
inline function onButton1Control(component, value) {
    if (value) {
        if (!MidiPlayer.isEmpty()) {
            Console.print("MIDI Player has a sequence loaded.");
            local eventList = MidiPlayer.getEventList();
            Console.print("Event list size: " + eventList.length);

            if (eventList.length == 0) {
                Console.print("! Event list is empty. Cannot render.");
                return;
            }

            // Add a stop event at the end
            local timeSig = MidiPlayer.getTimeSignature();
            local length = timeSig.NumBars * timeSig.Nominator * (timeSig.Denominator / 4.0) * timeSig.LoopEnd;
            local ts = Engine.getSamplesForQuarterBeats(length);

            local stopEvent = Engine.createMessageHolder();
            stopEvent.setType(3);
            stopEvent.setChannel(1);
            stopEvent.setControllerNumber(1);
            stopEvent.setControllerValue(0);
            stopEvent.setTimestamp(ts);

            eventList.push(stopEvent);
            Console.print("Added stop event at timestamp: " + ts);

            // Render the audio
            Console.print("Rendering audio...");
            Engine.renderAudio(eventList, COMPOSER_RenderAudioCallback);
        } else {
            Console.print("! No MIDI file is loaded in the MIDI Player.");
        }
    }
}

inline function COMPOSER_RenderAudioCallback(obj) {
    local isFinished = obj.finished;
    local progressPoint = obj.progress;

    if (isFinished) {
        Console.print("Rendering complete.");
        local bufferDataToWrite = obj.channels;
        local audioFilesDirectory = FileSystem.getFolder(FileSystem.Temp);
        local fileToExport = audioFilesDirectory.getChildFile("export_temp.wav");

        if (!isDefined(bufferDataToWrite[0].length)) {
            fileToExport.writeAudioFile([bufferDataToWrite], Engine.getSampleRate(), 24);
        } else {
            fileToExport.writeAudioFile(bufferDataToWrite, Engine.getSampleRate(), 24);
        }

        Console.print("Audio file exported to: " + fileToExport.toString(0));
        AudioDragger.data.tempFile = fileToExport;
        enableBroadcaster.sendAsyncMessage([true]);
    } else {
        Console.print("Progress: " + progressPoint);
    }
}

// Visualize MIDI Sequence
SeqView.setPaintRoutine(function(g) {
    g.fillAll(0x11FFFFFF);

    var displayArea = this.getLocalBounds(0);
    var noteRectangleList = MidiPlayer.getNoteRectangleList(displayArea);

    g.setColour(Colours.white);

    for (noteRectangle in noteRectangleList) {
        g.fillRect(noteRectangle);
    }
});

// Broadcaster definition
const var enableBroadcaster = Engine.createBroadcaster({
    "id": "enableBroadcaster",
    "args": ["shouldBeEnabled"],
    "tags": []
});

enableBroadcaster.addComponentPropertyListener(["Dragger"], ["enabled"], "set the enabled state for the dragger", 
function(index, shouldBeEnabled) {
    return shouldBeEnabled;
});

enableBroadcaster.addComponentPropertyListener(["Dragger"], ["text"], "update the text", 
function(index, shouldBeEnabled) {
    return shouldBeEnabled ? "Drag to waveform or external target" : "Press render";
});

enableBroadcaster.addComponentRefreshListener(["Dragger"], "repaint", "repaint");
enableBroadcaster.sendAsyncMessage([false]);

inline function drawDragPanel(g) {
    g.fillAll(0x22FFFFFF);
    g.setColour(this.data.hover ? Colours.white : 0xBBFFFFFF);

    if (!this.get("enabled"))
        g.setColour(0x44FFFFFF);

    g.setFont("Default", 14.0);
    g.drawAlignedText(this.get("text"), this.getLocalBounds(0), "centred");
}

AudioDragger.setPaintRoutine(drawDragPanel);

When I hover over this combobox in the interface designer I get this info tooltip...How could I create a hover tooltip like this? Thinking of creating a "Help" system like this for each interface component vs having to create a manual or a bunch of tutorials...

@ulrik I figured it out...I had my sample maps named like "Elements_Element 004" same way in the code smh...I thought I needed to do that...when I took the "Elements_" off the front of my sample map name it started working!

Ok so im still on the journey to build the ultimate Midi Browser... ive been able to get it about where I want it but there's a few things that just aren't fully acting right...so far ive got:

-a table based browser in a viewport that shows tempo, time sig, bars and key etc
-it's clickable and loads midi files
-you can search and filter the data in the viewport
-it has a midi file viewer that follows the midi player transport shows the midi data and allows for drag and drop midi

The main issues im having now is that:

-I can scroll the viewport with up/down arrow keys but hitting "enter" does not load the file only clicking does....would love to have it just load by using the arrow keys + enter or to even just have a "Prev/Next" button that will cycle through that the end user can click...either would work..both would be great

-I can't seem to work out the color scheme for the table browser LAF works with a panel and regular viewport...but when you enter "table mode" you can't change the color of the rows. The problem being (as seen in the snippet) you can't tell what row you are on because there's no other color option besides gray

-while searching/filtering table data works...when you click on the results it actually doesn't load what you click...it's still loading it in the table row order....so if I search "Your Loop Midi file" it populates the table but when you click on it it loads "Your midi file 1" same results no matter what is clicked/searched...seems to always follow the default table rows

Here's the Snip:

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here's some midi files to test with:
MidiFiles.zip

@ericchesek WOW!!! that little thing just took it from great to AMAZING! 🤯

@ulrik SUCCESS!!!!!!! That did it! Now onto the next thing! gosh it's always the little goofball things that get us...

Alright I was able to get my plugin signed and Wrapped in AAX! this was a heck of a process but Im here to do what @Lindon said and pay it forward....the process is just as he laid it out..I'll expound as much without compromising the confidentiality of the PACE agreement

1. Join the Avid Developer Program:

You'll need to follow the instructions here: https://www.avid.com/alliance-partner-program/how-to-apply

You'll need to do this even if you don't want to sell on the Avid Marketplace. Im not planning to at all

2. When you're in download the Developer version of ProTools (so you cant test your unsigned AAX plugins):

Once your in you'll see a section in your Avid account for Developers like this:

This is where you'll be able to download the PT Dev Version/the Current AAX SDKs you'll need to export your project with.

3. Email your Avid representative telling them you want to use the PACE EDEN tool kit:

It was a runaround to find this email but the official email to email is audiosdk@avid.com

4. When they send you and email for a pace person email them asking for the tool kit:

They will verify you as an Avid Dev and then you'll need to tell them that you need a license for PT Developer. You CAN'T run PT Dev without a license...it DOES NOT work even if you are already a PT Studio or Ultimate subscriber. They will connect you with the department to give you this and they will tell you the criteria for how to submit to them verification of your unsigned plugin running in PT Developer. Once you do this then they will connect you with the PACE person.

5. Sign and return the NDA they send you:

This will be apart of the earlier step of signing up as a Dev.

6. Install the license they send you onto your USB iLok:

You're gonna need a physical ilok to do this so pick one up if you don't have one...you can do it through ilok cloud...but it's going to cost $$$$...your gonna need this heavy for every step past this! They will email you all of the steps needed to access the PACE Central site and how to get the license on your iLok.

7. Read the silly amount of documentation!

It really is a silly amount...probably about 80 or so pages. But everything you need is in there...it is a literal step by step walk though on how to sign the plugin. This is the part that is Confidential and covered under the NDA so I can't speak about the step by step. But I will say that it is a very detailed walkthrough and you'll be good if you follow the instructions to a "T" ...I didn't have to read through the full 80+ pages because not all of it is relative to signing. But I had to take my time and walk through each step. Took me a couple of hours, results may vary depending on how fast you read/are competent with implementing the steps...I took my time

8. Use the iLok License to get to the web site:

As stated before you'll need a physical iLok to access the Pace site...there's no other way in
but once in there are explicit instructions on what to do. As long as you read everything you won't get lost.

9. Generate your signing code:

Again I won't spoil too much of the process but you do need to be fairly comfortable with the command line/Terminal on Mac. The process was actually pretty simple cause they give you explicit instructions on how to do this in the manual. But I got into a tough spot cause I'm not as good with the command line...I did however email the support team at PACE and they were VERY responsive in helping me fix the issues in my terminal commands...so if you get stuck just email them and they will get you out of the mud!

10. Sign your plugin with the pace EDEN tool kit and your signing code:

The biggest problem I ran into was the signing certificate...I tried my darnedest for about a day to get a Self-signed Certificate running and I kept failing...So I broke down and just bought the Dev account from Apple for $100...generated an official signing certificate from them and that worked. If you've got more ninja skills than me you probably can make the self-sign work...I didn't have the patience to keep banging my head...paid solution just worked...I did however get stuck one more time with it right at the LAST step because there were some permission issues with the Apple certificates. This is a common issue but the people at PACE support sent me to this forum:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48911289/warning-unable-to-build-chain-to-self-signed-root-for-signer-warning-in-xcode

And I literally just went down the page trying everything that people reported as "this worked for me" until it finally "Worked for me also" I can't tell you exactly which process worked...and It may have actually been combination of trying multiple solutions. But after that the signing process literally took 10 seconds and my signed plugin opened perfectly in the official version of PT Studio. No Issues! Hope this helps someone and saves them the 8-months it took me to figure all this out!

@rzrsharpeprod yeah that makes sense!

@Lindon Mos Def! I just heard back from the Avid team and am working on step 1 now...will def report back with as much of the process as I can share!

Ok gonna try this and go back to the "drawing" board again!

I could do this for you, but then you will come back with more questions when you want to change something or you find a bug. You need to be in control of your own script.

Absolutely! I totally get it!I taught music for almost 15 years before I started my online business...this is like learning scales all over again lol! The student wants you to just jump and show them the sexy jazz chords and runs...but hasn't yet fully learned the theory and foundation behind those chords/runs...which would make them a better and more skilled Musician being able to create and imagine their own chords/runs...I get it lol :expressionless_face:

@d-healey Definitely not the most complicated thing I've had to do ALL morning lol...GENIUS!!!

Thanks everyone....finally got it going...im honestly not sure what finally got it working...but I deleted everything out of all the VST folders...cleared the user App data folder...recompiled the plugin completely...put it in the common files/VST3 folder and it finally loaded!

@gorangrooves Ive placed it in a few places...all default VST folder paths that the DAWS suggest plus even custom paths that I added myself..

@d-healey Right...I know that...I guess this is where the "debugging" and all that comes in...cause for some reason my VST3 exports aren't reading in the DAW...Ill keep tinkering around

@d-healey makes sense...your tutorials have been helpful...ill sit down today and take a look at it and see...