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mda · Post by **mda** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 9:57 am

As I don't have time to maintain or develop the "mda" freeware plug-ins any more, but I don't want them to die when 32-bit VST 2.x plug-ins are finally obsolete, I have released the source code:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mda-vst/

If anyone wants to find and fix bugs, or tidy up the sources into a more generic future-proof format, that would be great. If not, the code is all there and working so for example it would be easy to build 64-bit versions.

It might also be interesting to see how the plug-ins work - maybe they are simpler than you'd expect, as back when these were written every additional line of code had an effect on the CPU meter!

Paul

Rottweiler · Post by **Rottweiler** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 9:59 am

whoa, thanksssssssssssssss

phazed · Post by **phazed** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:04 am

Great news! If someone would do a AU version of SpecMeter, he can expect a donation from me.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:05 am

wow. very good of you...

hill_matthew · Post by **hill_matthew** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:31 pm

These are probably going to become a popular resource for answering many 'how do I...' style questions; great help for the community

duncanparsons · Post by **duncanparsons** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 1:25 pm

wow - thx Mr K! I'll have a butchers!!

Chris Walton · Post by **Chris Walton** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 1:34 pm

WOW!

Great, thanks!

Question - under license it says both GPL and MIT. What are the exact terms? (I have a feeling this question could be answered if I'd just look around, but ... I'm at work, and my code just finished compiling, ...

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jdtrbn · Post by **jdtrbn** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 2:00 pm

Cool stuff. I think the limiter was mentioned in the newest Sound on sound in an article where a guy mixed a live recording. Maybe people will learn DSP coding from these.

BTW I don't think anything's going to die. VST 3 has got a very poor reception and I wouldn't be surprised if 2.4 would stay as the standard.

mda · Post by **mda** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 2:04 pm

As far as I understand it (which is not very far) the MIT license lets you do anything you want, including commercial use. The GPL license is there so that distribution with other purely-GPL software is not ruled out.

Paul.

conner_bw · Post by **conner_bw** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 2:42 pm

Wow, fantastic news! Thank you.

I have one request though, could you import the sourcecode into the SourceForge provided CVS please? (or SVN if that's your thing). It's a lot easier to deal with a source-code repository than it is with a zip file for a lot of coders.

Anyway, thanks again.

dreaddd · Post by **dreaddd** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 2:43 pm

very generous indeed, sir!

Peace out

midijor · Post by **midijor** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 3:32 pm

Wow! Thanks a lot Mr. Paul

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Are there any way to convert the codes to delphi?

Best regards,

midijor

ouroboros · Post by **ouroboros** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 3:50 pm

Wonderful news; thanks for your generosity and vision mda

duncanparsons · Post by **duncanparsons** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 3:52 pm

midijor wrote:Wow! Thanks a lot Mr. Paul

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Are there any way to convert the codes to delphi?

Best regards,

midijor

alas, only by sitting down and writing it! Having already had a pretty good look through, most of the algorithms are fairly straight forward (if you have some sense of what you are looking at). The best conversion would be more a case of applying the sense of the code, rather than a line by line transcription.

DSP

bvesco · Post by **bvesco** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 4:11 pm

This is awesome man, thank you.

mda plug-ins now open source