Free programmable VST Instrument,Audio effect,MIDI processor/sequencer,SoundFont import,Temperaments,Multi I/O v1.0.200

[bjt2]

Current version, 1.0.143 beta:

• Bugfix: allow UTF-8 in Tooltip text. Add Chinese translation to some tooltips (Google Translate) to show it.

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Current version, 1.0.144 beta:

• Added INZ keyword to access INPUT #1 in both LAYERs and POST step.

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Current version, 1.0.145 beta:

• DEBUG LOG cosmetic fixes.
• Reverse Polish Notation parser bug: some invalid combination was not rejected.
• NaN protection: check only the final output and not all LAYERs.
• NaN protection: perform a suspend/resume cycle if NaN or output greater than 100dB detected.
• Correction to the User Manual.

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Current version, 1.0.146 beta:

• Bug when CHOKE is active: silence only if the Layer ID is the same, otherwise only one layer per note can be played.

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Current version, 1.0.147 beta:

• Introduced SMOOTH, to configure the MIDI CC smoothing.
• Introduced MAXDLY, to configure the maximum delay to be supported.
• Bugfix reverb: scale reverb to be of the same level of input signal. Modified default Dry/Wet in the example files.
• Memory optimization for REVERBx: allocate only the needed RAM.

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Current version, 1.0.148 beta:

• Bug on DELAY: deallocation mismatch.

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Current version, 1.0.149 beta:

• Added Crescendo-MIDI.dll versions, featuring a default of zero audio inputs and zero audio outputs.
• Allow to specify also 0 and 1 inputs and 0 outputs in the IO instruction: if both are zero some DAWs treats Crescendo as a pure MIDI effect.
• Tested on VSTHost 1.57 (x64 version) and verified as working. All three versions supported. In particular Crescendo-MIDI.dll is treated as a pure MIDI effect.
• Changes to the User Manual to reflect the new mode and the new I/O limits.

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Current version, 1.0.150 beta:

• Bugfix: rounding error and off velocity in detune MIDI output.
• Verified of detune support in VSTHost.
• Modified and unified some debug messages.
• User Manual update.

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Current version, 1.0.151 beta:

• Allow compact Knobs (without texts) to pack more of them in the UI. See the User Manual for details.
• Bugfix: support UTF-8 also in DEBUG log.

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Current version, 1.0.152 beta:

• Various bugfixes.
• Functions SHMCC, SHMCC2: Periodic output of an expression in a MIDI CC/VST VAR with all side effects (MIDI output, MERGE, etc.).

[dexrow]

It would be really cool to set up a way to change the default directory due to space constraints and desire to back stuff up... I haven't quite figured out how to program it yet, I am a little dense but would love to come up with an instructional video if I can figure it out, I am interested in multitap delays with frequencies shifting over time and using random ranges in my delay experiments.

[dexrow]

I have a test sf2 organ that seems to give me a different sound on cakewalks keyboard when I press the notes and a different sound when I press the play button on cakewalk and play the piano roll.... sounds very buzzy when cakewalk is in run mode.

[bjt2]

It would be really cool to set up a way to change the default directory due to space constraints and desire to back stuff up... I haven't quite figured out how to program it yet, I am a little dense but would love to come up with an instructional video if I can figure it out, I am interested in multitap delays with frequencies shifting over time and using random ranges in my delay experiments.

For the directory you can create a junction on the documents directory named Crescendo and point it on another partition. Personally i have moved the entire my document directory: windows has a provision to perform this via the GUI.
In any case the paths are relative, you can move the whole imported subfolder or move a single imported instrument, provided that you take with it the sample subdirectory.

For the instructional video, sorry... I don't have the skills, plus i hate instructional videos. I prefer PDFs. I am working on some more examples in the PDF file.

You can give a look to the text files produced by the soundfont import to learn some basics of the language. You can also experiment with them, modifying something, adding something, etc...

I have not implemented multitap delays, because you can just use multiple delay lines. My plugin does not pose limits on number of instructions per layer. Obviously the delay is fully automatable with any formula and there are various fuctions for random number generators.

I was very busy in these holydays modifying the VST with many new fuctions, specially to the midi input and output and transformation. I am very proud of them. Also I have reorganized the code shaving off some performance. I have almost finished the testing and have to modify the user manual. Maybe i will add some examples...

Also i found and resolved many bugs. So stay tuned.

I have a test sf2 organ that seems to give me a different sound on cakewalks keyboard when I press the notes and a different sound when I press the play button on cakewalk and play the piano roll.... sounds very buzzy when cakewalk is in run mode.

I have not tested my Vst With with cakewalk, but if you can give me the sf2 file i can give a look.
As i said i have resolved many bugs in the new version, so maybe the new version will work. Also i will test it with ableton and other Daws i have. But you should explain in other words the problem, because i didn't get it... Give a look on the CPU occupation. If your pc is old or the sf2 import has created many layers that fire up at the same time, there can be performance issues.

Also consider that in the last weeks i produced many versions, each resolving some bugs, so check if you are using the last version.

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[dexrow]

I think I would have to record it since it is the same sf2 either way unless I don't understand something about sf2's... I am filled with the red x and it deleted the generated file so I will see if your instruction helps when I have time. Thanks for your reply.