Experimental audio effect (Free plugin) - very unique sounds!

[EffectiveFX]

Long time lurker, and now I finally have something to give back!

I made a completely new (mathematically and sonically) modulation effect called Poltergeist. Capable of all sorts of wild (or subtle) sounds - I personally love it on guitar, drums, and as a drop-in replacement for reverb, but friends and early users have really surprised me with what they've been able to do with it. Definitely made for the adventurous!

It's free here:
effective-fx.com/poltergeist

PS I really miss these old school forum emojis

[stanlea]

Cool, thanks. Any chance of a linux build ?

[thecontrolcentre]

Nice one. Thanks for sharing

[martiu]

[EffectiveFX]

Cool, thanks. Any chance of a linux build ?

Not at the moment unfortunately - I don't actually know a lot about using plugins/making music in Linux. What plugin formats work on Linux? Also curious how common plugins have a Linux version and if they work on all distros or just the popular ones.

[EffectiveFX]

Oh look, it's me!

[martiu]

Oh look, it's me!

you look like Venetian Snares, breakcore is in your fate going forward

[plexuss]

Ok. Sounds pretty cool. I love the MVP UI. lol... would love to resize it larger, its small and hard to use on my 4K. You are definitely onto something here I think...

[sprnva]

As you're using JUCE a linux port should be pretty straightforward. I've built a ton of plugins from Github that didn't have a Linux release and in almost all cases it was just a simple case of creating a linux makefile in Projucer or just building with cmake if that was used. For formats there's VST3 and LV2 (LV2 is the linux equivalent to AU) as well as CLAP which has an extension for JUCE and is also supported on Mac and Windows as well.

You may not need to set up a linux system to build, I see a lot of open source projects on Github use Github Actions to build and package their releases for Linux, Mac and Windows. I don't know how to set that up, but it's all there on Github I guess.

Ubuntu seems to be the most popular target in order to get it to run on as many systems as possible.

Hopefully this helps a bit if you're interested in adding a linux build.

[EffectiveFX]

Oh look, it's me!

you look like Venetian Snares, breakcore is in your fate going forward

I see the resemblance and it's kind of uncanny!

[EffectiveFX]

As you're using JUCE a linux port should be pretty straightforward. I've built a ton of plugins from Github that didn't have a Linux release and in almost all cases it was just a simple case of creating a linux makefile in Projucer or just building with cmake if that was used. For formats there's VST3 and LV2 (LV2 is the linux equivalent to AU) as well as CLAP which has an extension for JUCE and is also supported on Mac and Windows as well.

You may not need to set up a linux system to build, I see a lot of open source projects on Github use Github Actions to build and package their releases for Linux, Mac and Windows. I don't know how to set that up, but it's all there on Github I guess.

Ubuntu seems to be the most popular target in order to get it to run on as many systems as possible.

Hopefully this helps a bit if you're interested in adding a linux build.

I am interested and this is very helpful information - I appreciate it greatly. I'm already using cmake (shoutout Sudara for his wonderful Pamplejuce template) so should be a pretty straightforward add - I'll PM you once I have that!

[EffectiveFX]

Ok. Sounds pretty cool. I love the MVP UI. lol... would love to resize it larger, its small and hard to use on my 4K. You are definitely onto something here I think...

Dude thanks for the kind words! I did this by myself with little background in the UI/UX department - so I'm glad you're forgiving of that and see the potential regardless

You're definitely not the first to mention the size - do you think making the screen resizable would be necessary if it was just bigger?

[sinkmusic]

Oh, thank you for creating and sharing this effect : it sounds great!

[martiu]

EffectiveFX is the creator, and this video is from his youtube channel

[sinkmusic]

You're definitely not the first to mention the size - do you think making the screen resizable would be necessary if it was just bigger?

If I dare to chime in :
- Resizable GUIs are quite standard nowadays, so I think it would be a good thing and make your FX more future-proof.
- Also, GUI-wise, I must say I don't really like tabbed interfaces, because you can't see all the parameters are once, and it's slower to setup... did you consider a single-tab interface?