Wednesday, May 23, 2012
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...
Saturday, November 19, 2011
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)
Thursday, October 6, 2011
v0.5.6
- Fixed a bug with some plugins not responding to parameter changes (some mda plugins)
- Correctly update delay cables thickness
- Added a font selector for the program list
Customize font |
- Added a "fast editor open/close" parameter
Faster program change needs more memory and cpu |
- Added a button to hide all the plugins windows
Clean up the mess |
Saturday, October 1, 2011
v0.5.5
Fixed a bug with delay cables
Fixed an old issue causing random crashes
Faster program change
Fixed an old issue causing random crashes
Faster program change
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
v0.5.4
Well... v0.5.3 is dead, long live v0.5.4
Fixed a bug for plugins hooligans who don't respect the vst specifications... sabotage !
Fixed a bug for plugins hooligans who don't respect the vst specifications... sabotage !
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