Hi everyone.

Sorry for the off-topic post but i thought I'd share a nice experience with HISE as a tool for education and creativity for music students. In short, was hired by a music festival to do a 5 day workshop in building simple sample based virtual instruments. It was quite hard to organize it during covid measures - but in the end four of the workshop attendies were able to create their own instruments. They recorded samples using their mobile phones, using opensource audio recorder app; convert, cut and prepare samples in audacity and learn basic stuff in HISE for creating standalone and vst instruments.

If you like to check out their work you can download all compiled vst3 win64bit standalones from here
HISE source files from -> here

Students also made a video presentation of their work, you can watch it from -> here
(albanian language version only i'm affraid, but you might be curious how it sounds :) )

bellow are students instruments interface shots and few photos from the workshop and festival poster of the workshop

Ilir Bajri, 52, musician from Prishtina, Republic of Kosova.

Love the Scriptnode, lots to learn yet but it feels so right already!

Makes me happy and had to share!

Many Thanks @Christoph-Hart

Happy to share that the main reason why i use HISE and joined this forum - a personal project that i call ORCHESTOOLS | SECTIONS - a free public virtual orchestra version 1 - is complete now. Took a year to get from an initial idea to a working version.
A motivation behind it was to provide for music students and music enthusiasts a set of free tools for study and composition of orchestral music.

OT SECTIONS features a set of 4 instruments. Each has 4 layers and each layer has independent samplestart, pitch, amp and filter LFO, Envelope and Velocity modulators; each has keyboard range and keyboard volume range, MIDI channel, volume and pan control. It has global compression and convolution reverb, etc...

The whole set is built on samples from Versilian Studios VSCO 2 CE and VSCL libraries. And, of course, hardly any of them would be possible without the help and support from kind and generous people of this forum and the platform built by Christopher. Thank you all!

Compiled Windows 64bit VST3 plugins can be d'loaded from the website

HISE source files are available on my GitHub

Re: my first instrument :)

I've updated and rewritten from the scratch the piano plugin that i made a year ago. New UI and better sounding samplemap. Quite happy with this one and already have ideas and plans for stuff to put on the next update/upgrade.

It is built on Salamander Yamaha C sample library. if you want to check it out and build it on your own (and would aprecciate very much if you happen to build OSX and Linux plugins and/or standalones and if you wouldn't mind sharing them with me, i'll put them on site with credits and stuff) :)

download from GitHub repository: GitHub / OT PIANO S

Otherwise you can download compiled VST3 and Standalone windows files from here:

32bit and 64bit VST3 plugins
32bit and 64bit STANDALONE
Samples

bellow screenshots of UI

happy holidays

This is a new rompler instrument i've built using Versilian Studios VSCO 2 CE sample library. The aim is to create orchestral plugins that sound good and offer a lot of modelling tools. It is a 4 layer rompler, each layer has it's own filter, amplitude and pitch modulators, EQ, A global convolution reverb, compression, library and more....
This is the first of four instrument in the series. Winds, Brass and Perc modul;es will follow.
if you like to check it out links are at: musictop69.wixsite.com/orchestools/orchestools-two

screenshots and two sound demos bellow.

https://youtu.be/X8Plvo99HRQ

https://youtu.be/kgxUJKSvAbs

This is my first attempt at fx plugins. This one uses two pattern based LFO's to modulate Filter and Gain. Patterns can be re-triggered with incoming midi note messages. Filter parameters can be automated, etc...

If you like to check it out, dwonload links are at this page
https://musictop69.wixsite.com/orchestools/media

vst3 32&64bit, windows only
project files for build are at GitHub!

I am almost finished working on the second version of my first synth experiment from a year ago - ORCHESTOOLS | GENESYN which uses two standard HISE wavegenerator modules. It has now more LFO's, more Envelopes, new UI, an arpeggiator, etc. Now for some preset building and testing. Will upload it on Github for anyone who might be interested to look into it.

Was invited to give a presentation and talk about Virtual Instruments, public domain resources, free and open source tools for creating them and their usage and benefits in education and creativity.

I guess now the new website is officially up - so i can freely say that - I love it. I also am very happy seeing Orchestools listed on Opensource projects section. :) Grateful for that! It is really a big pleasure to be a part of this community and, hopefully, modestly contribute in any way.

Kudos to @Christoph-Hart for creating and developing this inclusive platform and Kudos also to forum community members (you know them all ;) ) for their constant and generous contributions in maintaining a friendly, supportive and constructive vibe - which is always helpful and encouraging!

@gryphonsegg Hi there! Don't get discouraged. I'm 54, started using HISE 4 years ago. I have yet a lot to learn but with experimenting and help from this forum I have so far managed to make these instruments.

Regards.

@d-healey My sine wave module is inside a synthesiser group and shows no MIDI tab. There used to be note number modulator with an option to tune each key respectively? Thought i could use that on the pitch tab. But can't seem to find it, was it removed?

@d-healey Fantastic. thank you!

Is there a way to disable pitch tracking for Sinewave generator module, iow same frequency spread on all keys of a keyboard?

@d-healey Great, thanks!

@Lindon May i bother you with some more please :)

I need to use this:

MidiAutomationHandler.setConsumeAutomatedControllers(bool shouldBeConsumed)

but have no clue on how to use it! Any advice/suggestion in this regard?

@Lindon Thanks... I must learn to think in that way! Much appreciated!

@musictop Thought I'd share this. Sustain pedal switching on/off "process input" on convolution reverb module.

function onController()
{
if (Synth.isSustainPedalDown() == true)
	ConvolutionReverb1.setAttribute(4, true);
if (Synth.isSustainPedalDown() == false) 
	ConvolutionReverb1.setAttribute(4, false);
}

@musictop
I can't figure it out unfortunately! Would you be so kind to give a short usage example? I do not quite understand how to use it!

Many thanks.