MonoChannel and StereoChannel by Dustin Ralston! (UPDATED)

[d.bop]

Thanks everyone! I'm glad to hear you all are liking it so far!

Thanks everybody! And thanks BPB for posting my plugins (again )

As far as Mac builds go... I don't own one, unfortunately. But! If I ever do get a Mac, all of my plugins will be built for it pretty much on the same day I get it set up!


Direct links for each plugin are here!
MonoChannel:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4088115/donotd ... hannel.zip

StereoChannel:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4088115/donotd ... hannel.zip

Thanks again everybody!
-Dustin

Hi Dustin

JFYI, Norton kills the 32bit version of StereoChannel ("Heuristic" something...)

Threat: Suspicious.Cloud.7.F
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High
This file risk is high.
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Threat Details
Threat type: Heuristic Virus. Detection of a threat based on malware heuristics.
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Probably false positive, but as it can't be undone (the deletion), it would be nice if some measures were to be taken...

Thanks

yeah.... it's been reported over on the REAPER message boards, too. So far, it only seems to happen with Norton antivirus. Heuristic scanning is basically the antivirus's way of "guessing" that a program could possibly be a new type of virus.

Here are the results from an online scan I did in May with multiple antivirus programs:

StereoChannel 32-Bit
http://virusscan.jotti.org/en/scanresul ... b3b3783b54

StereoChannel 64-Bit:
http://virusscan.jotti.org/en/scanresul ... 55149119b6

I hope that clears things up a bit. I need to figure out what's causing this. It also happened with dBVU..

[Tp3]

yeah.... it's been reported over on the REAPER message boards, too. So far, it only seems to happen with Norton antivirus. Heuristic scanning is basically the antivirus's way of "guessing" that a program could possibly be a new type of virus.

Here are the results from an online scan I did in May with multiple antivirus programs:

StereoChannel 32-Bit
http://virusscan.jotti.org/en/scanresul ... b3b3783b54

StereoChannel 64-Bit:
http://virusscan.jotti.org/en/scanresul ... 55149119b6

I hope that clears things up a bit. I need to figure out what's causing this. It also happened with dBVU..

Well, WFIW, the ONLY file that gives me this warning is StereoChannel.dll (32bit). the rest are OK. go figure...

[kmonkey]

yeah.... it's been reported over on the REAPER message boards, too. So far, it only seems to happen with Norton antivirus. Heuristic scanning is basically the antivirus's way of "guessing" that a program could possibly be a new type of virus.

Here are the results from an online scan I did in May with multiple antivirus programs:

StereoChannel 32-Bit
http://virusscan.jotti.org/en/scanresul ... b3b3783b54

StereoChannel 64-Bit:
http://virusscan.jotti.org/en/scanresul ... 55149119b6

I hope that clears things up a bit. I need to figure out what's causing this. It also happened with dBVU..

Well, WFIW, the ONLY file that gives me this warning is StereoChannel.dll (32bit). the rest are OK. go figure...

unbelievable...Well plugin is free and noone is forcing you to use it. Go figure it by yourself

Beside that i found what is causing your problem (actually this is quote from another forum):

Cause for your problem is: You are using Norton Antivirus

Seriously so many awesome free tools which don't have any kind of issues yet somehow people still use that obtrusive Norton crap..

[Tp3]

unbelievable...Well plugin is free and noone is forcing you to use it. Go figure it by yourself

Beside that i found what is causing your problem (actually this is quote from another forum):

Cause for your problem is: You are using Norton Antivirus

Seriously so many awesome free tools which don't have any kind of issues yet somehow people still use that obtrusive Norton crap..

K, I want to emphasize something, because obviously it looks to you as if I am COMPLAINING :

THIS IS NOT A RANT

I was merely pointing towards a problem that might (and apparently HAS) affected others.

It happened to me once with another FREE plug, I was pointing the problem and the problem was fixed. end of story.

Man, you need to read forums a little LESS

[d.bop]

I'll be going through the code this weekend to try and find the problem. I don't think it'll be too hard to fix, but I don't have Norton so we'll see.

I'd really appreciate if the people experiencing this bug could help me sort it out with some test builds. PM me if you'd like to help.

Thanks again everyone,
-Dustin

[Tp3]

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I visit here quite often. I can check it for you.

Thanks, Man !

[d.bop]

That would be great! Thanks

[Tp3]

D.

Is it possible to add peak-hold needle ? (for, say, 1 sec or even less)

Thanks

[scalawag]

D.

Is it possible to add peak-hold needle ? (for, say, 1 sec or even less)

Thanks

+1

[Compyfox]

After testing this plugin for the last half hour, I must say I'm positively impressed.

This VU is pretty much accourate and for this price, it doesn't come short of features in direct comparision with my go-to VU as of this moment: VUMT. You have a reference level shift, you have influence on the peak LED's (including time how long they are lit!), and you have some more advanced features for channel strip usage. Though I have to emphasize that this is purely a VU in terms of metering, not a PPM/VU hybrid like VUMT - it seems to be setup to 300ms rise/fall only - you do not(!) have influence on the ballistics.

I can gladly give this a definite approval for Windows. Though I'm sure it will perform great, should it hit Macintosh someday.



There are a couple of things I do not like however:

First and foremost, the input/output gain. It's cool to have a dial, but I can't see how much I dial in. The only visual representation are the markings on the knob, and they don't tell me "hay dude, you just dialed in -8,763dB cause you're st*pid!". If you add such a feature, then a numeric readout would be great, and the usued to +/-24dB instead of 20dB.

On to the insertion of the values. I can only drag and shift-drag (finetune). But I can not enter numeric values like the competition. This is not a drastic thing, but I'm pretty sure a couple of users will mourn on that end. I usually won't mess with settings anyway once everything is set up.




Else, I can't find that much negative on this plugin. I mean, hey - it's freeware. You can mute/flip L/R/M/S, you have a correlation meter, input gain, etc. It's easy on the eyes as well - meaning the GUI is large enough to read on a 22" flatscreen with a resolution of 1680x1050.

In terms of ballistics however, I personally find VUMT a bit easier on the eye (it's not jumping around as much), but as long as it's the 300ms rise/fall standard - I'm cool with it.

[Tp3]

In terms of ballistics however, I personally find VUMT a bit easier on the eye (it's not jumping around as much)

EXACTLY my feelings. they seem to operate the same, but VUMT seem to have some "smoothing" mechanism.
It doesn't "jump" around, as you accurately said.

[d.bop]

Thanks guys!

As I'm going through the code to find this Norton bug, I've been tweaking some things along the way. A lot of people have been posting feature requests here and on other forums and I'm going to do my best to add some good stuff for the next update!

Thanks again,
-Dustin

[Lenticular]

+1

Thanks for these

[macmurphy]

outstanding stuff Dustin. keep up the good work

neil.

[Compyfox]

Care to fill us in on the FR's?

As of this moment, this VU is pretty much overloaded with features already, so why add more? Unless requests came for customizing the ballistics for example.