KVR Dev Challenge 2016!

[Ivan_C]

Not on any version of Windows

[Taron]

Wouldn't it be great to have some sort of demo tracks thread, maybe something almost like the OSC, just with instruments and tools from the DC16?! I think that would be great!

Indeed! I'm still trying to get one or two layouts finished with only plugs from the contest - hopefully in time The agitated pre-xmas time is fighting against this. Let's see who wins...

Arrangements, yeah, should be enough there to get some nice sets together. I, however, will only hook up stuff I don't need to bridge.

But somewhere between Noisetar, Lord of the Springs, qyooo, Malefica, Lagrange, Spaceshipdelay and SnareBuzz should be enough to do a curious track!
*and I've already done my x-mas shopping!

[xoxos]

believe i owe funky lime a ty for something back there. didn't have a concise response when i read it.

[Chris-S]

Wouldn't it be great to have some sort of demo tracks thread, maybe something almost like the OSC, just with instruments and tools from the DC16?! I think that would be great!

Great idea. Instead of the 17th Synth1 OSC......

[Taron]

Ohohoh, has it been that many already?
Well, it's actually my first Synth1 OSC, so I'm rather happy. It's a fun one. Too bad I didn't want to squeeze out my "Cirque" for the DC16, but hopefully I'll have it ready for one of the coming OSCs real soon!

[Youlean]

OMG! YouLean Loudness Meter.

Actually, I think that should be ''Youlean'' and not ''You Lean''.

Oh, I just saw this post. Thanks, though I don't quite understand your "You Lean" meaning (I am not native English speaker), but I guess by the smiley in the end that it means something positive.

[GaryG]

But if you look at the DC16 entries... only 2 were strictly 64-bit (Lagrange and WaveSynth). Those two entries are not even using huge sample libraries, did they really need to be 64-bit only?

Lagrange isn't 64 bit only, pretty sure my 32 bit system is handling it fine.

That's strange. Are you sure because I presume JBridge won't convert 32-bit plugins to 32-bit and yet it did convert Lagrange, from 64-bit, I presume.

Ah, just checked the download page; the original .84 release was 64 bit only whereas .85 onwards has 32 bit dll included too which is when i must have downloaded it. So now we know.

[SadKo]

But according to this, you could: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_limit

"Limits on physical memory for 32-bit platforms also depend on the Physical Address Extension (PAE), which allows 32-bit systems to use more than 4 GB of physical memory."

PAE allows the whole operating system to access up to 36 GB of physical memory. Indeed, because modern operating systems use FLAT memory model, the virtual address space of individual process is still limited up to 4 GBytes. Part of this address space is utilized by kernel, so for user space there are only 2-3 GB available (dependent on operating system that you use).
64-bit OS and processes do not have such problems because the virtual address is extended up to 64 bits, so hypothetically they may address 2^64 bytes.

[harryupbabble]

From a Microsoft webpage: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/librar ... s.85).aspx
The link no longer works but if you use Google and search "Physical Address Extension (Windows) - MSDN - Microsoft" (include the quotes) you will find it.

Here's a couple of excerpts:

Physical Address Extension (PAE) is a processor feature that enables x86 processors to access more than 4 GB of physical memory on capable versions of Windows. Certain 32-bit versions of Windows Server running on x86-based systems can use PAE to access up to 64 GB or 128 GB of physical memory, depending on the physical address size of the processor.

PAE is supported only on the following 32-bit versions of Windows running on x86-based systems:
Windows 7 (32 bit only)
Windows Server 2008 (32-bit only)
Windows Vista (32-bit only)
Windows Server 2003 (32-bit only)
Windows XP (32-bit only)

[harryupbabble]

Ah, just checked the download page; the original .84 release was 64 bit only whereas .85 onwards has 32 bit dll included too which is when i must have downloaded it. So now we know.

Maybe a LOT of 32-bit users spoke up and asked "How come you only have 64-bit version of your plugin?"?

Okay, I don't really know why Lagrange was only 64-bit in the beginning but later a 32-bit version was made available, but this 32-bit-only plugins user is super-glad and relieved and thankful.

[Ivan_C]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_ ... _Extension

Memory limits on 32-bit editions of Microsoft Windows, with PAE support[15][16][17] Windows Version Memory limit
Windows 2000 Professional, Server 4 GB
Windows 2000 Advanced Server 8 GB
Windows 2000 Datacenter 32 GB
Windows XP Starter 0.5 GB
Windows XP (Other editions) 4 GB
Windows Server 2003 Web SP2 2 GB
Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2 4 GB
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise/Datacenter SP2 64 GB
Windows Storage Server 2003 Enterprise 8 GB
Windows Storage Server 2003 (other editions) 4 GB
Windows Home Server 4 GB
Windows Vista Starter 1 GB
Windows Vista (Other editions) 4 GB
Windows Server 2008 Standard, Web 4 GB
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise, Datacenter 64 GB
Windows 7 Starter 2 GB
Windows 7 (Other editions) 4 GB
Windows 8 (all editions) 4 GB
Windows 10 (all editions) 4 GB

[Ivan_C]

(Inspiration, Guitar Gadgets, and Spaceship Delay are 32+64 bits )

[harryupbabble]

But but but... Ivan, my link is from Microsoft, yours is from Wikipedia.

[DSmolken]

Heh. Brings back memories of the 640 KB DOS memory limit, freeing up upper memory blocks, and extenders...

[Taron]

Thank god vst wasn't invented then!