@MikeB -- Lindon, Hull UK, Audio Developer, before that I worked in Telecommunications (real time and all that - not as complicated as it sounds) and before that I was a record producer....before that I was a starving/failing musician.

Feature Request
@Christoph-Hart - Please can we have bus effects (send and receive) as per this discussion :

https://forum.hise.audio/topic/1983/feature-request-the-case-for-bus-containers

-- wow I just re-read the thread I pointed to - I've been a pita about this .....sorry.

Feature Request

MIDI out.

So I've seen a few posts here asking how to "do" an LED-style control, and there's been a few answers - all of which seemed to require adding in a png for the LED itself.

So as I needed (or wanted) one of these that used vector drawing, and one that had some level of "red-line" warning as well as momentary peak measurement too I coded one up. You might want to use it - or adapt it to your needs.

So caveat no.1 : as @ustk has said elsewhere - this is not really a gain meter - its approximates one as it uses 100 milliseconds between each measure - so it may miss some peaks. But in any case:

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I'm pretty sure the code could do with re-factoring so I'm always interested in a better version if you want to comment or contribute...

...sliding in late... happy holidays everyone...

OK so as promised, here I am at the end of the "name your Own Price" sale... to provide a few stats.

So the sale ran from 27 June to 5th August ( so a little over a month) and I did spend a modest amount of time pushing it on VI-Control, KVR and facebook.

Referrer order:

1. VI-Control
2. KVR
3. Reddit (who knew??)
4. Search Engines
5. facebook

All up I had 169 orders for 469 products. Yep still got a lot of multiple-product orders. For an all up revenue of $2658.05 (who was that person who paid $5.05 for something?). As you can guess more than 90% of people paid the minimum $5.00 for each product - so if you are going down this path then make sure your minimum is something you can live with. I know most people who run these say most customers pay way above the minimum, but frankly I'm unsurprised given the audience here is musicians - never found them to be the most generous of individuals (sorry if that offend anyone - remember I'm a musician too...)

My take: As a vehicle for getting product into peoples hands its a good approach, many many customers were very grateful I ran this and said so in public forums, but as a sustainable business model its never going to fly. To do this you need a fairly extensive (and pretty played out) back catalogue- which is what I had/have so it was minimal pain for me.

OK thats it have at it..

Hello everyone, so right now I'm running a different kind of summer sale over at Channel Robot. It's "Name Your Own Price" (min = $5 , max = list price). It's for my Kontakt instruments ONLY - and I'm pretty sure no one here needs or wants any of those but on one of the facebook groups I was asked to provide some feedback on how it went after the sale finishes. It occurred to me that this would be useful information to all of us - in case you were thinking of running with this format for your own product sets. So whenits finished I will try and remember to post some stats here.

Meanwhile - it's been running for 1.5 days now, so this is whats happened so far:

In the last 36 hours I've made 26 sales - selling 82 items (yep almost no one is picking up a single item..) for a total revenue of $429.00 - yes almost everyone (90%) are paying the minimum $5.00.

I am getting the feeling that if I'd set the minimum at $10 I wouldnt be so much down on sales and up a fair bit on revenue - but who knows. I will try and keep you posted - remind me at the end of August in case I forget.

yep happy and successful 2020 everyone...

@MikeB said in I give up:

but unfortunately I'm a graphic designer for 40 years

.. So just askin..... would you expect someone who has never done Graphic Design to pick it up in " a couple of weeks"? To be competent enough to charge for their services?

Coding take years of effort to learn how to do. I think its unreasonable to expect it wont take as long to be good at it as it takes to be good in any other profession.

I've been writing code for over 30 years...(ouch!), and I knew the day I started on HISE development I wouldn't be making anything of any value for at least 6 months - and so it proved.

Perhaps divide and conquer is your best approach - find someone who will build the back end for you and you (graphic) design the front end.

Me personally - I'm just here for all the free advice about cash-app transfers in those very helpful posts...

@DabDab

File.writeEncryptedObject(var jsonData, String key)

File.loadEncryptedObject(String key)

@d-healey yeah basically this comment needs expanding:

Returns a child file if this is a directory.

to:

Returns a child file if this is a directory. Returns a new file if childFileName does not exist

@d-healey I think you are missing the point I'm making. Its not that:

"You cant do this in HISE"

but:

"Its not explained in the documentaiton how to do this in HISE"

@d-healey said in Write User Name on Plugins Registration/Authorization:

@DabDab

Yesterday @Christoph-Hart advised this method is deprecated

You're mixing up things. Christoph said the dump json function is deprecated, that is totally separate from his authorization method.

Here is the tutorial for authorization. Just swap out the dump json stuff with the write string stuff - if it's too complicated for you then just stick with dump json, it's deprecated but it still works.

yeah but....the file API documentation is fundamentally lacking....there is a lot of stuff about how to act upon a file, but nothing that tells you how to create a new file....Engine.dumpAsJSON(someData, "myFileName.js") creates a file....I cant see anything in the documentation that allows me to do this:

var profileData = Engine.loadFromJSON("ProfileData.js");

if (profileData == "")
{
    profileData = [
                    {
                        ProfileName: "FirstOne",
                        someValue: [80]
                    }
                ];
    Engine.dumpAsJSON(profileData,"ProfileData.js");
};

@yall said in Develop branch build status:

@Lindon
can you tell me what AUVAL is? I don't know at all please

check Daves URL above, you need the section called:

Audio Unit Validation and Testing in the menu(on the left) item Audio Unit Development Fundamentals

its not that clear(typical Apple) what you do but compile your AU plug-in and put it in the folder:

Completer/Library...etc.. folder

open a terminal window and type this:

auval -h

to get a list of all the command options.

The commands you want to use are:

auval -a

(to list and get your AU's recognised type , plugin code and company code

then auval -v (with those details from above)

it will run a series of tests (the ones LOGIC uses) to validate the plugin - if this succeeds then LOGIC will at least not reject your plug-in on validation grounds...

@dustbro said in Develop branch build status:

@yall https://auval.ca/

LOL...

@yall said in Develop branch build status:

@d-healey I come back to you regarding the compilation of hise 5 hours later;)
I managed to compile hise with my following config.
xcode 12.5.1
development target 14.

I also put in projucer, in the mac os part, on native architecture of build machine. (they were on 64 bits)
.
big on 15.5.2 last develop version

now do you think the audio units will work in Logi pro?
because so far I still have not had an answer on this subject (logic belongs to apple so rosetta will not work)

try running auval for a start...

@d-healey no it doesnt -----

so I have a plugin that is failing auval.. the pertinent bit is probably this:

Parameter ID:2135008121
Name: Gate2-Depth
Parameter Type: Generic
Values: Minimum = 0.0, Default = 1.0, Maximum = 1.0
Flags: Values Have Strings, High Resolution, Can Ramp, Readable, Writable 
  -parameter PASS

ParameterID=154368669, Scope=0, Element=0: Saved Value = 0.468254, Current Value 0.000000
ERROR: Parameter values are different since last set - probable cause: a Meta Param Flag is NOT set on a parameter that will change values of other parameters.
Cannot perform Parameter Value check across initialization and reset

as you can see auval kindly tells me which parameter has passed (like Gate2-Depth in the lines above the error...) but unkindly doenst tell me the name of the parameter that fails....it gives me the ID instead. Does anyone know a way to get the name for this ID? I've been at this all day - it started out at 3 errors and now I'm down to 1 by trial and error...and I'm losing the will to live...

@Christoph-Hart said in PlugIN failing Logic Validation:

Yes, IIRC this snippet should fail auval if you compile it:

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and this snippet should work:

HiseSnippet 1186.3oc4W80aaaCDmxNJq1qKnsnOzWFfPvdvAHKvNMMc.EC0INIEAsNQvJKXuUvHSaSDJRARpr5MzW295rOB6iT+FrcjRJRx0yMwnqcCKODn6++3wi2c1WJBIJkPhbZb1zXBx4ttAS45I8lfobzwGfbVysOVoIRuTV6OMFqTjgHGm5uvvvowJH6eu646iYXdHofEBctfFRdEMhpK3528kTF6H7PxYznRZuS2iCE7dBlHAvSc21nXb3k3wjSvF0p4hbV8vgTsPFnwZhBzYewvoASD+DOU+yoJ5ELhgnCJ.bTJaTuIT1P+7ypBgbb8KN40SO4OzsOcH8Z9EYf6YE3UXQ4bfSsEAoN2BH4TBRqjBo66FDJow5BIF77ktGygKjQXHUWFJo5hp8qNt8DfFb8VQ3KIGIAhqsn0tsauoG7uMdVylP5Vo8tBK8dIWbw1deuWtgiI5dhnXAGHZstU55FKZR4LJm3MJgGpoBtmfaD1wXmTvZElazlfaYIjMZ9KMaXMeKEQetgUqTAOq4aA+82GuNqugwjLG2CyXW.UCspFOvKkPxIBM4TdKaLa91ldyJZzn4JKyWLhbthMEoxEYXKdRzEDY4SrQQ3VrZowp2rRivzTRIEE7i4T8owjL5iDrglqby2uegDJKmBkT0xPHnp1VPsVVAU.iNjHQTvIegqMghrfu7SWzM13smiw+vwGf0XSYcFb.HFSjZpIS3b.4JnuPZQdC2CHpK0hXKdypA.W+AQ7afmwNscPnolO9MHnTkOKYLk6ikPKCnhGBUs3prRalj6CppOQiqnOpDHV8CdxsfXybP7H3iEDusmOBQu+KenmiXXBCqq1HxzwMS.TBV40u4ENWQ0SK2Q9Vzcp8B6NcSg38c8o5vIyGi0lCFMUo+Cfwrd5ek6giFQB0E.bE2i9wksA9MO7ecZ3efafVRvQT93.bTLzgwhgltYTc9XLNM9FON0WRXB7v.5OWRs+n69IPNRVk6u20Fp8hDI7JwJC4CHwDrFtlKYyc5NXvKjhj3Ys5cO2VTblDZfCohxBNkSfbst7YrmTnTifii0Wpxh7SjiM4pBNCHWQjpp7NIIBtu4bBSYdS5X5FoHl6WZXerVReSYssQo8YX6cLrigktyLzaOC8imgdmYnexLz6NC8SKnSSn8wwlJCyNNK2TCvA9X3HWRy8oiu14obp19njpyYcjU+LrgzGmdPeFaSVYItF4XLfZtENjeE77C3Xv3CfgdivILcN2psB5K3h3IBNMrZwNT7NdrYnQA1m6AZOsFdqUv4gcGPXDrpzq0uo6qfE4vxpuguU4ha+Bsy895Qtov0yz+x6+ti2p++lwaKJEsV1vMOHhR8+BuCuqqsErmYh4mR3MPjngoe4SfbgwTAvn4PR4gU0LC.SoaanMfHfvGZI9S3uLgcxmrYD1IWHJL2Uv4I6a6Z3N0IbyDG6VXLXlIqbIpBV.v.IX5ymDTFgCkhWGl9yKLX8NVN.J41kka312P6c8OJw0s8VsQQvLlWGFZJx+VXj07sY6kvlGuD1ryRXySVBa1cIr4oKgMe2BswLdeuDsHJsoGvv+vzBKmCutvpN5u.B8O4EB

(the second one has set the isMetaParameter property set for the first knob.

great I will take a look, is there any problem with setting EVERYTHING to metaparameter? ( a bit excessive I know but hey...)