XHip--Please finish your synth!!

[Branis]

also would you rather spend time with women, or with xhip? )

That probably depends on if you're gay or not aciddose. Maybe you can just be gay for a while until Xhip is done.

and spend time with men instead?


edit: forgot to include quotes

[aquar]

if aciddose used his precious time to finish the branis gui instead of answering trolls like aquar and AQ by now we would be all making music with this synth.
now i moved on to oatmeal which is damn good...i miss that perfect xhip filter...but a usable GUI is more important

There's a fine line between trolling and expressing ones opinion, a very fine line indeed.
I honestly don't think I crossed it but there you go.
To suggest or attribute blame for any lack of xhips development due to a few minor exchanges between myself and AD is ludicrous to say the least.

Have a good day

[aciddose]

aquar, the funny thing is the numbers i gave you were a bare minimum and are less that what i'm already being paid to do the same stuff. priced out of the market? i think not, these are numbers "to start". if i were really contracting for you i'd expect a lot more.

[aquar]

Yeah I should hope so especially the $22 per hour.
I get close to that flipping burgers

[aciddose]

if anybody starts working on this please post updates of your progress in this thread to ensure nobody performs redundant work.

http://xhip.cjb.net/temp/public/branisgui_src.zip

populate.cpp

this file needs to have controls added. all you need to worry about are knobs, dropboxes and checkboxes. there are two types of checkboxes, parameter checks and flag checks. you can either ignore the flags for now, figure out how to add it yourself or simply set them all to a parameter as suggested in the comments.

bitmaps.cpp

the background bitmap is not finished. the graphics need to be finished but those are not required for usability. the important thing to do is to add all the control captions. every static (not-changing) text element on the gui should be added here. for example, the text in upper.cpp for "voices:" should really be removed and this should be added instead to the background in bitmaps.cpp.

that is all - the required code for the whole gui to function is already there. the controls need to be changed and some extra graphical effects need to be implemented but those do not affect usability.

[Kriminal]

this synth is taking longer than the 100 years war....isnt it just a re-vamped verison of Neon?

[jupiter8]

I finally figured out how to add the LimeFlavour Gui. Backup the default.xhipgui and rename limeflavour.xhipgui to default.xhipgui.
It looks spectacular however i find it not that much more useful than the original since the sliders are really tiny.

Plus when i try the dropdown menues it crashes Live and Reaper faster than i can say supersaw. Is this not implemented yet ?

[aciddose]

it works fine with the unreleased latest version: http://xhip.cjb.net/temp/public/adxhip.dll

the proper way is to create xhip.ini and add a path to the gui you want to load. if the ini is not found or an invalid path is entered currentdir/default.xhipgui is used. you can also add a second line to set the path to the default bank.

none of this stuff is really going to be released officially for a while, see the todo http://xhip.cjb.net/xhip/todo

[RunBeerRun]

I love the old xhip gui. It's a good deal.

Sounds awesome too, I could do without some of the slow attack/long decay on the presets, but obviously that is a quick adjustment.

Less beans, more rice! That's what we say in town, and we sure do like to eat.

[aciddose]

i'm posting on branis' behalf here to let everyone know he will be attempting to get the gui layout finished this weekend. please remember that if you decide to do any work, post it here to let everyone know so as to prevent redundancy.

[_starcraft_]

i'm posting on branis' behalf here to let everyone know he will be attempting to get the gui layout finished this weekend. please remember that if you decide to do any work, post it here to let everyone know so as to prevent redundancy.

[Z3R0T0N1N]

Hey, Acidose,

just a quick question: I don't see any of the patch management stuff (like in the center-top of Branis' GUI) enumerated in the synthparams header file. Am I missing it? If I start on this, do I just skip that box? sorry if that's a stupid question Maybe I'll check if the source for the limeflavoured one is available so I can checkitout. (all one word, yes. checkitout. i'm starting a new language.)

[aciddose]

the buttons are actually a part of the gui, not synth parameters. notice you can't call them from the host using automation. you can add your own buttons and features as well, a "randomize" button or whatever. that's really stuff that belongs on the gui side.

those are located in "upper.cpp", and "listenbuttons.cpp"

branis has already started work though, so don't do anything until he has finished unless you want to do something that he might have already done. (it might be wasted effort.)

[Z3R0T0N1N]

OK, I won't dive in just yet. thanx for the reply, though.
I'm not great @ GUI design, but I'm kind of eager to move beyond f-ing console apps. I might give this a shot just for my own learning purposes.
C++ is considerably harder to learn (for me anyway, so far...) than Java, or all the scripting languages I use for work. But I'm getting there. It was nice to read through some of the xhip xource and not be totally lost. it must be sinking in a bit.

cheers

BTW, I don't know if I've mentioned it, but your synth is one of the most impressive sounding VST instruments I've ever heard. You do outstanding work, Acidose.

-gabriel

[Branis]

The progress on the GUI has been good so far, but unfortunately, I'm reaching my limits. Aciddose said he'll code the knobs, buttons and all the rest needed when he has time, but the man is busy. If anyone has the skills and wants this GUI fast, please help