OT: LOSER's VST Plug-Ins Beta - Page 2

sinkmusic · 02-25-2007, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by LOSER

Sorry, again I'm too stupid (or just lazy, who knows) to figure out how to make GUIs for the VST plug-ins, so I can't give you meters right now. But I may, however, find a way to add a GUI one day

How did you do it ?
Is it Synthedit ?
If so, you can make a backgroud image (jpeg, bmp, png...), and you have to have knobs (you can find many free ones around the web).
About the knobs, in fact it is just an image which includes about 100 variations of itself at various rotation points (from fully left to fully right).

If it isn't Synthedit, wel, erhh... i don't know

Then i suggest you give a look at the nice skinning program made by Asseca quoted above.

Cheers

teej813 · 02-25-2007, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Bevosss

C:\Documents and Settings\(USER)\Application Data\REAPER

They're saved in the .ini form so not sure how you access them...Pipe would know. Thanks for these btw

*whoops that might only be ReaComp etc

Yup, they're all stored in Application Data. That's another of the cool things about Justin's approach... totally editable and migratable between systems.

teej

mr jkn · 02-25-2007, 02:53 PM

here´s the 1176 drum smash setting (saved it as an fx bank) - enjoy! must polish on the vari-mu and fairchild settings some more, before posting them..

http://download.yousendit.com/CCF0C126796CF92F

the setting kinda gives the 1176 snap, but lacks a tiny bit of the real things "smack"..

Bevosss · 02-25-2007, 03:22 PM

Thanks!

Jae.Thomas · 02-25-2007, 03:29 PM

woot -- some 1176 wannabee action

mr jkn · 02-25-2007, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Jason Brian Merrill

woot -- some 1176 wannabee action

Yeah, I don´t suggest that this setting emulates the 1176 - more kinda "inspired by" approach. I don´t want to cause any stir!

..and, obviously I had trouble tuning in the smooth distortion that smears the transients when you push a real 1176. Well, there is NO such smooth distortion at all in this plugin.

pipelineaudio · 02-25-2007, 03:40 PM

be careful making comparisons, you may have your credibility questioned and called a moron and stuff...

oh wait, never mind, * this * forum is filled with nice, civil, smart people

mr jkn · 02-25-2007, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by pipelineaudio

be careful making comparisons, you may have your credibility questioned and called a moron and stuff...

oh wait, never mind, * this * forum is filled with nice, civil, smart people

I hear you! :-)

Nah, I´m not into an*l controversy - more into producing good music. I´m not a registred Reaper user, but enjoys the "tone" in this forum and visits it therefore..

SO, for god sake - DO NOT in your wildest imagination believe that I nailed THE sound! BUT, I had some succes with this setting when mixing the drumbus on a recent project I mixed.

Jae.Thomas · 02-25-2007, 03:57 PM

man, i say, DDC is EXCELLENT!

Bevosss · 02-25-2007, 04:06 PM

Which folder do the .fxb files go in? The files in FXchains are .RfxChain...?

Bevosss · 02-25-2007, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Jason Brian Merrill

man, i say, DDC is EXCELLENT!

You know that's the LOSER JS one right? And the one he just posted for was a LOSER vst one called DVC.

Just making sure we're on the same page...

mr jkn · 02-25-2007, 04:18 PM

Yes this preset is for the DVC vst-plugin! Ok, I´m not very technical when it comes to computers, and I don´t have Cubase here at home - but as I recall I saved the preset as a fxb-file, no? Maybe I did something wrong.. :-(

Bevosss · 02-25-2007, 04:25 PM

I dropped the .fxb file into LOSER's vst folder, but the preset won't appear on the GUI. I also tried importing it as a preset library but then it asks for the .RfxChain form...so I don't get it.

Where is the preset located on your machine?

Bevosss · 02-25-2007, 04:30 PM

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Originally Posted by pipelineaudio

be careful making comparisons, you may have your credibility questioned and called a moron and stuff...

oh wait, never mind, * this * forum is filled with nice, civil, smart people

Hey while you're here Pipe, maybe you could explain how to save these? I thought it was just left-click next to preset, export preset library? And then import the same way?

mr jkn · 02-25-2007, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Bevosss

I dropped the .fxb file into LOSER's vst folder, but the preset won't appear on the GUI. I also tried importing it as a preset library but then it asks for the .RfxChain form...so I don't get it.

Where is the preset located on your machine?

Ok, tried to recreate it here at home - don´t use my home computer as daw, so I downloaded the latest version of reaper and losers bundle + the fxb-file from yousendit. I put one instance of dvc on a channel, pressed "load" and opened the fxb-file which was located on the desktop. Works fine. Dunno how to help!?

Bevosss · 02-25-2007, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by mr jkn

Ok, tried to recreate it here at home - don´t use my home computer as daw, so I downloaded the latest version of reaper and losers bundle + the fxb-file from yousendit. I put one instance of dvc on a channel, pressed "load" and opened the fxb-file which was located on the desktop. Works fine. Dunno how to help!?

D'oh! Iwas clicking on preset, not load.....hahaha...thanks man, it's all good now

Jae.Thomas · 02-25-2007, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Bevosss

You know that's the LOSER JS one right? And the one he just posted for was a LOSER vst one called DVC.

Just making sure we're on the same page...

take another look for DDC

Bevosss · 02-25-2007, 05:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jason Brian Merrill

take another look for DDC

I know it, I was pointing it out to you just in case

...I did say JS...

LOSER · 02-25-2007, 05:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mr jkn

here´s the 1176 drum smash setting (saved it as an fx bank) - enjoy! must polish on the vari-mu and fairchild settings some more, before posting them..

http://download.yousendit.com/CCF0C126796CF92F

the setting kinda gives the 1176 snap, but lacks a tiny bit of the real things "smack"..

Awesome! Will try it tomorrow.

Edit: Okay, couldn't resist and already tried it now. Well since I don't know (and don't give a ... about) how a 1176 sounds I can't comment on the quality of this preset. But I really shouldn't anyway, oh we arent on KVR here, hehe ...
But seriously I'm glad people like and actually use my plug-ins

pipelineaudio · 02-25-2007, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Bevosss

Hey while you're here Pipe, maybe you could explain how to save these? I thought it was just left-click next to preset, export preset library? And then import the same way?

I never learned how to use the fxb/fxp thing

I just save in the reaper one

Jae.Thomas · 02-25-2007, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Bevosss

I know it, I was pointing it out to you just in case

...I did say JS...

right, he should definetly make this one a vst

LOSER · 02-26-2007, 04:56 PM

Made a little manual, today:

Now at: http://loser.asseca.com/

Will do some more detailed explanation of the features next week.

BTW I did write it in the hope to not to have to do presets at all...

alex zonder · 02-26-2007, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by LOSER

Made a little manual, today:

https://stash.reaper.fm/oldsb/13261/DVC.pdf

Will do some more detailed explanation of the features next week.

BTW I did write it in the hope to not to have to do presets at all...

Thanks! What a compressor! Great job, LOSER.

Bevosss · 02-26-2007, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by LOSER

Made a little manual, today:

https://stash.reaper.fm/oldsb/13261/DVC.pdf

Will do some more detailed explanation of the features next week.

BTW I did write it in the hope to not to have to do presets at all...

Great manual! For an awesome compressor btw...I'm amazed by the cpu-hit vs what it can do.

You don't HAVE to do presets...I just like them for quickly trying different settings out on a source. And both you and Pipe did some great ones for ReaComp etc. But I can probably try and copy those over...

teej813 · 02-27-2007, 08:07 AM

Whoa! Just had a chance to try this, Loser. I love what it's doing to my drums!

very nice, bud...

oh! there's still that typo on Threshold.

teej

LOSER · 02-27-2007, 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by teej813

Whoa! Just had a chance to try this, Loser. I love what it's doing to my drums!

very nice, bud...

oh! there's still that typo on Threshold.

teej

Ahh... dang new version: Now at: http://loser.asseca.com/ (I though I fixed that already, like I fixed the typos in the manual, but then Open Office crashed and ... at least there are no other bugs*.)

*except when you load a plug-in at a samplerate that is not 44100kHz, times (e.g. attack or delay time) get initialized wrong, I have no clue about why, since I initialize times based on the samplerate queried by the host (maybe you shouldn't query it in the constructor where they get initalized, reads SDK ... throws SDK away...). Anyway the just get initilized wrong thats all...

LOSER · 02-27-2007, 11:31 AM

Okay I did the preset thing. Here they are. (Attachment since stashbox links to them as a text file.)

Kick, Snare, NY Drum compression, 2 x Vocal, 2 x Guitar, Bass, 3 x Limiter, 2 x Distorion presets.

Hope you like'em.

Note: Use caution on the distortion presets (I don't want to be made responsible for broken speakers or anything!). The sustain on the distortion ones isn't very good (expecially the fuzzy one), but I put them in to demonstrate the versatility

Bevosss · 02-27-2007, 01:15 PM

Hey thanks! Much appreciated

teej813 · 02-27-2007, 01:46 PM

hmmmmmm.. is it me, or do these presets not work?

teej

Bevosss · 02-27-2007, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by teej813

hmmmmmm.. is it me, or do these presets not work?

teej

You are right, they are all the same!

LOSER?

teej813 · 02-27-2007, 01:54 PM

having said that, none of them sound bad...

teej <-- glass half-full kinda guy

LOSER · 02-27-2007, 03:10 PM

Ah I forgot to tell you that REAPER doesn't update the faders for none-GUI (and/or plug-ins that are viewed in the guiless mode) when you change the presets. I already told Justin. Hopefully he'll fix it. Just click the UI button once and the faders will update

Bevosss · 02-27-2007, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by LOSER

Ah I forgot to tell you that REAPER doesn't update the faders for none-GUI (and/or plug-ins that are viewed in the guiless mode) when you change the presets. I already told Justin. Hopefully he'll fix it. Just click the UI button once and the faders will update

Now why didn't I try that? Thanks, working now

smasha · 02-27-2007, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Bevosss

D'oh! Iwas clicking on preset, not load.....hahaha...thanks man, it's all good now

LOL-I can't find the load button on this plugin.

Could you explain to me how you do it?

Bevosss · 02-27-2007, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by smasha

LOL-I can't find the load button on this plugin.

Could you explain to me how you do it?

To the right of the VST Program box...

teej813 · 02-27-2007, 04:29 PM

To the far right of the Preset: drop-down box is a button with 3 dots. Click that, and select Import Preset Library.

teej

smasha · 02-27-2007, 04:30 PM

I can't see it.

smasha · 02-27-2007, 04:31 PM

Aaaah-Thank you both.

I saw that but thought it wasn't the right thing to do.

smasha · 02-27-2007, 04:32 PM

I get a header not found message.

Bevosss · 02-27-2007, 04:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by teej813

To the far right of the Preset: drop-down box is a button with 3 dots. Click that, and select Import Preset Library.

teej

That'll work for LOSER's...but from where he quoted me, I think he's talking about this post:

Quote:

Originally Posted by mr jkn

I made three presets for dvc (in cubase) via the "store preset" function. Now I want to share them but can´t find where the presets are stored. They´re not in the loser plugin folder. Anyone?

The presets where approximations of the behaviour of 1176, fairchild and vari-mu. Don´t know if I nailed it but the 1176 preset is kinda funky..

If so, click on Load, to the right of VST program, and navigate to where you put the preset files. I'd put them in LOSER's VST folder for a start.