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hermit01 · Post by **hermit01** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:35 pm

Hey rizi...you sure can. Look at Wusik.com and look at the skins for Wusikstation. She's done a lot of others too. I think she did the skin for Oatmeal, another really good VSTi, adn a bunch of others also. I'm also a great admirer of her work. She doen't always get credit, but after you've seen a few you begin to recognize it by the quality.

hermit01 · Post by **hermit01** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:48 pm

For anyone like me who is new and wants to see more of Vera Kinter's work, I searched the web and found the "mother load." She has her own site at http://www.artvera-music.com/. There's a bunch of free GUI components (knobs, sliders, etc.) at the site. They are some kind of beautiful too!

stanlea · Post by **stanlea** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:04 pm

And she's very kind.

rizi · Post by **rizi** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:14 pm

Thanx hermit01 and stanlea, I think that I saw some of her GUI's but I haven't realized that Artvera and Vera Kinter are a single person.

HERCsMusic · Post by **HERCsMusic** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:17 am

Hi there,

Yes, Vera Kinter kindly did this GUI for us. She has signed the interface, but I will update our site with credit for all of our designers.

Steve

grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:00 am

3*s wrote:Still no host preset support, so it's useless to me unfortunately.

Too bad, I really liked the sound just flipping through presets.

why is it suddenly useless if it doesn't have host presets? do you mean a preset system that uses standard fxb/fxp or one that reports the presets to the host?

i agree that it's annoying when the standards are deviated from, but usually there are good reasons. and it wont stop me from using stuff like freealpha just because it does so.

what is critical to you about host presets? do you use receptor?

grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:04 am

3*s wrote:The trouble with fxp is I have to manage directories and what not.

With host presets it's just click and save. That's it.

It's like the difference between typing in notes in the piano roll and actually playing a vst with a controller. You can make and save variations at a creative pace.

ah. there it is, you are a workflow junky

i am too, but if you like the sound perhaps step outside of your comfort zone and save each preset as a fxp file?

there are benefits to doing it that way btw, and not relying on sonar -- one of them is your presets are portable to any other host, and another is it's very simple to back up your presets, and yet another is that because the fxp's are on disk you can organize them to your hearts content with multi-level folder structures.

assuming sonar saves to registry or ini, i'd prefer to save to fxp myself.

Improv · Post by **Improv** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:20 am

hermit01 wrote:For anyone like me who is new and wants to see more of Vera Kinter's work, I searched the web and found the "mother load." She has her own site at http://www.artvera-music.com/. There's a bunch of free GUI components (knobs, sliders, etc.) at the site. They are some kind of beautiful too!

Not to mention that Vera did all the gui's for HG Fortune synths:

http://www.hgf-synthesizer.de/

HERCsMusic · Post by **HERCsMusic** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:29 am

I think that the portability of presets is a good thing. The internal preset management system (which is all concisely explained in the included user manual) is a function of our synthesis core at the most fundamental level. One of the benefits is that you can actually use any preset for any of our instruments in any one of our instruments. So, you could for example, just load up all the Abakos banks into Viktor and they would sound the same (not always useful of course, but can be good for testing). It's a more sophisticated system than the standard model and reflects the underlying synth engine mechanics.

Steve

grymmjack wrote:
3*s wrote:The trouble with fxp is I have to manage directories and what not.

With host presets it's just click and save. That's it.

It's like the difference between typing in notes in the piano roll and actually playing a vst with a controller. You can make and save variations at a creative pace.
ah. there it is, you are a workflow junky i am too, but if you like the sound perhaps step outside of your comfort zone and save each preset as a fxp file?

there are benefits to doing it that way btw, and not relying on sonar -- one of them is your presets are portable to any other host, and another is it's very simple to back up your presets, and yet another is that because the fxp's are on disk you can organize them to your hearts content with multi-level folder structures.

assuming sonar saves to registry or ini, i'd prefer to save to fxp myself.

Artvera · Post by **Artvera** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 11:09 am

rizi wrote:
stanlea wrote:The lovely wonderfull Vera Kinter.
Can I find some other VST with his/her GUI? Thanks.

This thread probably is not right for this theme but:

thanks rizi, stanlea, hermit01 and Improv for your nice words

Especially for rizi here are some information:

You can find some another VSTi with my GUIs or skins here:
Free products:
Pluggotic Stealth - http://www.pluggotic.com/products.html
Fuzzpilz Oatmeal - http://bicycle-for-slugs.org/
My skins for it here - http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... sc&start=0

Free and commercial products:
All synths of H.G. Fortune - http://www.hgf-synthesizer.de/

Only commercial products:
PlugINdex Infrared System - http://www.vst-archiv.de/index.php?temp ... &file=1234
Artvera Golden Aset - http://www.artvera-music.com/
Wusik.com Wusikstation - http://www.wusik.com/w/skins_gal.html
Sonicbytes Phrazor - http://www.sonicbytes.com/phrazor/phrazor.htm

tERMoBLUe · Post by **tERMoBLUe** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 4:11 pm

herc, excuse - but i always get an error message..."wrong validation key" report fruityloops...why - is'nt free?...cya

tro

HERCsMusic · Post by **HERCsMusic** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 4:52 pm

tERMoBLUe wrote:herc, excuse - but i always get an error message..."wrong validation key" report fruityloops...why - is'nt free?...cya

tro

Hmmm...That was fixed a few versions ago. Did you uninstall your previous version before this one?

Does it happen in any other host?

Steve

HERCsMusic · Post by **HERCsMusic** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 12:35 pm

We have just released bugfix version 2.1.

Read about the fixes in the original post

Steve

mahtazz · Post by **mahtazz** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 1:03 pm

Thank you, Steve. Nice sounds.

You can add Sony Acid Pro 6 to the list of host that can play with Abakos.

Also, thanks to Vera for so nice skin.

HERCsMusic · Post by **HERCsMusic** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 1:09 pm

mahtazz wrote:Thank you, Steve. Nice sounds.

You can add Sony Acid Pro 6 to the list of host that can play with Abakos.

Also, thanks to Vera for so nice skin.

Thanks Mahtazz !

Good to hear that Acid plays nice with it. It's tough to test in every host out there so that is useful to know.

Steve

HERCs Music Systems Releases Abakos Version 2.1