v0.6.4

v0.6.4 is up, with some more bug fixes ! (There's still plenty to play with, don't worry)

- The plugins windows are correctly restored, after closing and reopening the main window.
- The song position (transport) is forwarded to the plugins, and is converted from and to the correct format as CLAP, VST or VST3 

- It seems to work with OBS Studio, as a VST filter. If anyone can think of a reason to use VstBoard in OBS... 

 

Also, apparently, multiple audio interfaces at the same time... ? Probably not supported by Portaudio, and I have my doubts about multiple ASIO devices too. But you can output to ASIO, WDM_KS and WASAPI simultaneously :

v0.6.2

Still a mess, but a lot better than 0.6.0 

Fixed some obvious bugs, and the transport/beat is now forwarded to the plugins

CLAP is goood

 So I took a little break... 

I've been working on VstBoard lately. I discovered CLAP and wanted to give it a try. Meanwhile, Qt went up two major versions, Vst2.4 no longer exists... Everything changed! The core application is updated, but there are still some missing features, some menus not implemented, etc. 

Nothing is guaranteed to work, please don't rely on it. 

v0.6.0 "has it crashed yet?" is available here: https://github.com/CtrlBrk/vstboard

Ok, i'm not the chattiest person in the world... So, for those interested, here comes the news :
I worked a lot on vst3... my mistake, don't do that... ever. There's some good things in it but I still can't figure a way around the lack of raw midi messages. And I can't see the point, why the hell did Steinberg removed that obviously useful midi filtering capability ?

Anyway, the thing is : beside wasting my time, there's some improvement I'd like to extract from that -useless- vst3 version of vstboard. And, yes, I made that mistake : I thought that vst3 was going to be the next standard anyway so I jumped into it blindly, adding other improvements in the process, and merging all that in a new version -and there's a vst2 wrapper anyway !- So I thought I was safe... what a mistake ^^ Of course, because I'm a not-so-good-hobbyist programmer, all that spaghetti code is inter-dependent, and extracting the good parts from the bad mess could be time consuming.

So...
I usually jump on a task and work on it full-time until exhaustion, boredom or death. Unfortunately, this time, nothing releasable came out of it soon enough. After the -sick of it all- threshold, I usually drop the project entirely and spend 100% of my time on /anything/ else (mostly nothing) It's an endless -too much-, -nothing at all-, -too much again- loop and I'm right in the -nothing at all- part of it ('m fine, thanks for asking !) and can't predict when the -too much- part will kick back in again. But I suppose it will, eventually? Maybe tomorrow, or the year after... I'm not planning anything.

So by the meantime I encourage you to explore the enormous amount of very good, and sometime free, vst hosts out there. I think the idea behind VstBoard "panels" is quite unique (yeah, I'm proud of it), but the execution is... so-so... and will never be stable or optimized enough (still proud of it though, in a "not bad for a noob" way !) And if you find an alternative, some sort of "Cantabile mixed with Hermann's host" monster : please comment, links are welcome !

I'm still amazed by the good reviews and all the suggestions. Thanks for that, and to all those who downloaded that thing and gave it a try, I appreciate !

'til next time...

v0.5.7

A little, but long due, update :

• Bypass/mute now flushes the audio buffers (preventing delays from playing the remaining buffers when turned back on)
• Suppressed a click noise on mute/unmute
• Audio devices configuration can be opened when the device is in use (Audio streams are suspended if needed. For Asio interfaces : you may have to update the device list afterward to rebuild new buffers)
• Added a button in the toolbar to always open the selected plugin gui
• Dragging a bank file (fxp or fxb) on a container will load the corresponding plugin (you'll have to load the plugin one time to add it to the database)