Today I finished my first VST instrument with a GUI. It is for an assignment for University so it is not the most practical. Above you can see a screenshot of what it look like (don’t laugh). The plug was made using C++ and the oscillator is based around a wavetable. The filter is a 12dB/Oct State Variable filter. The envelopes also have exponential decays to model the sound of some Analog Synths. If anyone wants to try it give me a buzz in the comments below and I'll send you a copy to play with. I warn that this is very early software so it is not optimised in anyway.
Update:
As the GUI was a little sucky I changed the knobs and some of buttons to make it look nice :)
I’ve decided to let this out into the wild to see what people think and to find out what problems might exist. And I'll work on improving this such as adding new features. If anyone wants to see something added just give us a buzz and i’ll see what i can do.
Just click here to try it
I have removed as on further testing there are some horrible GUI bugs and other minor bugs so I have decided to take off. That will teach me as a developer to always make sure I test test and test some more. I am now working on something new which started from some of the initial ideas of this which is looking to be a lot better. And as soon as it’s ready I’ll put it here for some of you ;).
Cool. I`d like to play with it please. (PC)
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good job mate :) i think it looks good! i'm downloading it now ^^
ReplyDeleteThank you Marcus!
ReplyDeleteI know the CPU usage sucks right now but A fix is in the process. As a plugin like this should only be using 2% cpu and not 20% especially with no notes pressed. This is very very early software and i'm only putting it out there as experiment to see peoples reactions.
As soon as the cpu issues are sorted i'll look into an os x version. And then from there expanding the features and gui.
Well, I've never even used at VST Synthesizer. So your proberly better than I would be. So what O.S do you use to control the VST, Windows(XP, Vista etc...) or a Mac.
ReplyDeleteHi Jamie
ReplyDeleteA VST stands for Virtual Studio Technology. It is a plugin format that can be used within musical software such as FLStudio, Renoise, and Cubase. The plugin's can be used as musical effects or musical instruments. When used as a instrument a MIDI keyboard is connected so that when a user presses a key the plugin will generate those sounds based on the settings.
VST plugins work mainly on Windows and Mac Os X but I have heard people have had sucsess running them on linux. On linux there are other similar formats such as LADSPA. If your interested in getting into music making with your computer you can't go wrong with FLstudio. If you are familiar with trackers then Renoise is the one to go for.
Anyway I hope this has helped?