Having used all 3 fairly extensively, here are my thoughts on the 3 different pieces of software for what it's worth.

I came from both Romplur & Maize before transitioning to HISE. They are easy to use but you hit issues and/or limitations pretty quickly IMO.
Maize & Romplur are very similar to each other despite the Romplur CEO saying otherwise.

Romplur has a huge issue if you want to use real sample mapping for each individual note and will just grind your DAW to a halt if you have even a modest number of presets/banks.
Maize doesn't have that issue at all depsite being the significantly older software.
With both, you are limited to the built in effects and functionality so if you have far reaching or even moderate ambitions you will hit the ceiling fairly quickly.

They only really have 2 advantages over HISE and one was mentioned by the OP - that you can export both Windows & Mac format plugins on 1 platform, you don't need to have a Mac to export Mac plugins and so on.
The other advantage is ease of install.
Other than that, I would say HISE wins hands down in every other category.

But in fairness to HISE, once you have got your head around the HISE install/build process & how it works, it's not really an issue tbh

After making the move to HISE I would 100% never consider moving back to either of the other 2 and the more I learn with HISE, the more possibilities there are and the more powerful/flexible it becomes.

@d-healey Turns out you were kinda right and I had done something stupid.

When I changed the preset browser from 3 to 2 columns I just left the default widths as 3 x 0.33333
It didn't seem to matter as it worked fine in HISE but in a built plugin it was doing what I described in my OP.

After your suggestion I flicked it back to 3 columns, re-exported and sure enough the factory presets weren't editable & the add buttons were there as they should be.

I then changed it back to 2 columns but set the widths to 2 x 0.5 and when I re-exported it this time it was also working correctly.

Glad I have that sorted as it was really bugging me. Thanks for the assist

@rzrsharpeprod can I just say, this forum is great as people are very forthcoming with suggestions and help. It is much appreciated and quite rare in a forum I find so thanks everyone

@d-healey ah ok strange.

Thankyou for your help as I now have it working properly and selecting the correct samplemaps.

I've also got the expansion load working in daw as well so I can progress with my project which is great news.

Thanks again, your help is always invaluable

@d-healey Ok thankyou. I have created a minimal project and sent it to you via DM

@d-healey Thankyou, as usual your help was invaluable.
Ironically I have been using autocomplete quite a bit recently but it didn't even occur to me in this case.

Thanks again, it is doing what I want it to do now

@Lindon @d-healey

Thankyou both. I tried both methods and have come up with something that works.

I need to do a little rejigging of the samples once to get it working 100%.
That is a one time job and after that I can add new samplemaps without messing up my presets and having to manually reassign the samplemaps which is exactly what I wanted.

Thanks again, your help is much appreciated

@gorangrooves said in FL Studio midi problem:

@gorangrooves Found it. For anyone else looking, it is in:

top menu Options-> Audio Settings-> CPU-> Align Tick Lengths

Apologies I've only just seen this. Glad you found the setting though

@d-healey I forgot to say earlier but this worked like a charm. Thankyou for your help as it would have taken me forever to figure that out (if ever)

@DabDab yes that the code I used to get it working in he first place but it didn't translate across when I made firther changes in daw.

@Christoph-Hart said that it should though so I'll double check something else isn't stopping it

@bendurso said in Fader/mixer between multiple samplers:

@rzrsharpeprod I was thinking in making the same a few days ago.

This is how I managed it to do it:

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(I used a Midi Controller to control the Gain).

For my plugin it makes more sense that in the middle both samplers are at 100%, so I changed the value to:

	MidiController1.setAttribute(MidiController1.DefaultValue, 127 * (1 - value));
	MidiController2.setAttribute(MidiController2.DefaultValue, 127 * (1 + value));

Ah nice. I shall load this up in a bit and have a proper look.

Much appreciated

What would be the best/most efficient way to have a mixer/fader between 2 samplers so that you can have a custom blend of the 2 gains to give a more unique sound?

Would it be with script, a macro or is there a native function that can do this and I haven't discovered it yet?

I don't think I will be able to use a macro as one would be the inverse of the other - as in if you put the fader all the way to the left then you would get 100% of sampler 1 and 0% of sampler 2, put it all the way to the right and you would get the opposite. In the middle it would be 50% of each.

I would imagine script is the best way to go if there isn't a native function, but I am not really sure how to implement it if that is the case.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated

Thanks in advance

@d-healey said in Audio files sorting:

Engine.sortWithFunction("items", sortFiles);}

You've passed a string "items" as the first parameter. You need to pass an array. Also you have an extra curly brace at the end.

I switched it to the array and it now sorted them correctly in the test plugin so I just need to make the change in the actual plugin now.

Thankyou for your help. As usual it is very useful and much appreciated

@d-healey said in Audio files sorting:

Engine.sortWithFunction("items", sortFiles);}

You've passed a string "items" as the first parameter. You need to pass an array. Also you have an extra curly brace at the end.

See - something silly...

I must have left the extra bracket at the end when I removed the rest of the code as I was trying to keep the snippet as small as possible.

@d-healey thankyou. I have figured it out now and got the sound playing with a gain slider so it's doing what I want it to.
Thanks again

@rzrsharpeprod @d-healey I realised that the bottom section of the tiles were transparent so when I filled them and changed to drawing them in the grid under each one it worked

@d-healey said in A couple of expansion questions:

If you want to attach arbitrary data to the panel that needs to go inside its data object.

Which I have done. I have populated the tags and I can call them to be the "text" object using

cp.set("text", tags);

but I can't then have both the expansion name and the tags to be set as "text".
It wants one or the the other unless I combine them

cp.set("text", expansionName + "" + tags);

which I don't want to do as that puts them on the same line in the panel

If this isn't what you are referring to then I don't understand sorry

@d-healey Ok so I am getting somewhere. I can try it in my actual project later - albeit using a new preset so as not to ruin anything. That has expansions and the icon.png in each images folder of the expansions.

@d-healey Ok I messed around a bit this morning with paint routines and then attempted to add images. I added one at first and then I tried to implement a similar loop to the one drawing the panels.

I am at work right now so don't have access to everything so don't have a project with expansions etc setup but I think this will be the same image called for each panel.

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As you said, babysteps but feels like some progress is being made.

Long term would I need to call individual images to separate child panels or would a loop that is linked to the exp handler read the images inside the expansions in a similar ay to the image based preset browser uses the icon.png inside each expansion?

@rzrsharpeprod

I downloaded the latest version from Git last night but the issue was still there.

I am pleased to say that the issue has now been solved by checking the align tick lengths box inside FL. I guess that is why it was fine playing fine in Ableton but not FL.
The only thing is that some other plugins were playing the MIDI fine without that box being checked. Maybe their samples were perfectly aligned to the first tick or something which is why they were playing ok without the checkbox?

Either way it is working now so happy days. I can get these projects finalised.

Huge thankyou to @d-healey & @gorangrooves for helping me trouble shoot this as it has been a real pain. Hopefully this solution helps anybody else who is having the same issue