XT Software

polac · Post by **polac** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:55 pm

jorgen wrote:If anything, I could make a VST plugin that turns the waveshell dll into a "normal" VST (tiny wrapper)...but XT2 is first priority...unless the majority of xt users want me to do it?

cheers
jorgen

Hi, since Jorgen is working hard on xt2 I decided to do such a wrapper on my own

http://www.xlutop.com/buzz/zip/shell2vst.zip

You have to drag the waveshell.dll onto the shell2vst.exe, for each shell plugin it will create a small vst pendant in your vst folder. Instead of the waveshell.dll you have to load these vst pendants to Ext(or any other host not supporting shell vsts directly).

disturb · Post by **disturb** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 3:25 pm

brilliant !

gui doesn't show the first time i open a plugin, but closing it and reopening makes everything fine.

great job.

jorgen · Post by **jorgen** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:12 pm

cheers
jorgen

insane · Post by **insane** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:17 pm

wow, i don't even tried waves ever, but seeing polac here (and i assume is the polac vst loader developer) its great

pysj · Post by **pysj** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:21 pm

fantastic!

Really great polac

soma · Post by **soma** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:30 pm

Polac you rule!
Considering your work on chainer and the Buzz vst loader, I can only imagine what would happen if you and Jorgen were to truly collaborate!

disturb · Post by **disturb** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:35 pm

soma wrote:Polac you rule!
Considering your work on chainer and the Buzz vst loader, I can only imagine what would happen if you and Jorgen were to truly collaborate!

can't say that didn't cross my mind...

soma · Post by **soma** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:36 pm

Is there a way to automate parameters using your wrapper? I can't see the parameter names and get an error when I try to move a random parameter that I have chosen to "show" on the XT mixer.

disturb · Post by **disturb** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:40 pm

soma wrote:Is there a way to automate parameters using your wrapper? I can't see the parameter names and get an error when I try to move a random parameter that I have chosen to "show" on the XT mixer.

works fine here with both show param and cc mapping

soma · Post by **soma** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:43 pm

disturb wrote:
soma wrote:Is there a way to automate parameters using your wrapper? I can't see the parameter names and get an error when I try to move a random parameter that I have chosen to "show" on the XT mixer.
works fine here with both show param and cc mapping

Which version Wavesshell do you have?

disturb · Post by **disturb** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:53 pm

polac · Post by **polac** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 7:45 pm

soma wrote:Is there a way to automate parameters using your wrapper? I can't see the parameter names and get an error when I try to move a random parameter that I have chosen to "show" on the XT mixer.

My guess: This is a waves bug, I had also problems with waves plugin in my loader. Jorgen probably has to provide a larger buffer when getting the parameter names/labels. Vst officially supports only 8 or something bytes and waves doesn't care about this. My loaders for example provide a buffer of 200 bytes.

ddummer · Post by **ddummer** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 8:27 pm

Vst officially supports only 8

Think it is 24 but boy you can get huge nice crashes if
you send larger strings than 24 chars...

//Daniel

polac · Post by **polac** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:19 pm

ddummer wrote:
Vst officially supports only 8
Think it is 24 but boy you can get huge nice crashes if
you send larger strings than 24 chars...

//Daniel

24 for program names...

Btw I uploaded a new version which should fix the parameter automation bug:

http://www.xlutop.com/buzz/zip/shell2vst.zip

soma · Post by **soma** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:24 pm

Works a treat!

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