Aly James Lab VSDSX 2.0

[Aly James]

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Aly, I can't seem to find the EPROM binaries, presets are loaded fine, but when clicking on the load eprom, an empty folder appears.
There should be some there aready right?

From the updatelist:

Many UI unlisted details you will discover and other nice things such as a full pack of original EPROM binaries

Cheers,

To anybody else reading this, feel free to PM me some EPROMS

You guys don't read anymore these days...
https://www.alyjameslab.com/download.html
under VSDSX tab.
place them in the EPROM Library folder for easy access*
Paths:

• PC: C:\Users\yourusername\Documents\EPROM Library

• Mac: /Users/yourusername/Music/EPROM Library

* this EPROM Library folder is automatically created first time you ever try to load an EPROM.

[theviirus]

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Also, release that syncussion man! Would love to drive that thing!

Thanks! it's been a labor of love! Syncussion's Next
BTW all future updates for any plug-in will have Universal 2 (Native Silicon/Intel ) Mac VST3 + AU, on PC this includes an updated VST3 format.

Any estimate on when your syncussion plugin will be available? It would be sure to sell well since there aren't really any (working) syncussion plugins.

[mcbpete]

Installed the upgrade yesterday and couldn't really spot any difference between this 2.3 release and 2.0 version. It was only a point release so assumed maybe it was just bug fixes and/or a backend change to make it work on newer mac OSs.

It wasn't until I saw Aly's pretty animated screenshot at the top of this page that I noticed my version hadn't actually updated at all! Seems like the installer (on the Windows version anyway) doesn't overwrite the old .vst3, and you have to uninstall the old version first using 'Add/Remove Programs' if you wanna update ...

[Ex Machina]

I am not begging anything my man, VProm never got an update for years, the last one will certainly be a stable one for years, so asking $5 for an upgrade won't kill anybody especially for a product with an already low price for what you get and considering my pricing history..., on the other hand what happened last summer freaked me out and it was really 50% less believe it or not.

I am recovering from it and it is unlikely that future updates without major features or changes will cost anything.

So please don't start whining or saying on forums things that would make me look bad because in the end it doesn't work at all, people are judging by the quality of my work and what they get for the money spent.

Like it or not I don't care, I am a self made man and say what I want to say.

I won't buy your plugins because you are stretched too thin and your business just isn't profitable enough to make this your primary source of income. If you were a full time synth/FX plugin developer with an entire line of products, then yeah, I would support you in a heartbeat. But I'm not buying any more music software that's going to end up in the virtual trash can in a few years because the developer can't devote the time and energy to provide timely product updates. If people can't even rely on Native Instruments to release anything other than more lame Maschine expansion packs and boring Reaktor and Kontakt-based "instruments," then how is a single guy like yourself going to make a go of it part time?

My suggestion would be to partner with a more established plugin developer and let them deal with the business side of things while you focus on enhancing your plugins in what time you have available to work on them. Who knows, your business partner might have an ace UI designer on staff who can make your products look even slicker and more enticing. And any business partner you select would likely have either the marketing dollars or perhaps just the social media marketing savvy to increase your product sales enough to make up for the cut your partner would take.

[electro]

We're all going to continue supporting Aly James Lab because his plugins are extremely good and we do not want him to consider quitting. That's an outcome nobody wants to see.

I am not begging anything my man, VProm never got an update for years, the last one will certainly be a stable one for years, so asking $5 for an upgrade won't kill anybody especially for a product with an already low price for what you get and considering my pricing history..., on the other hand what happened last summer freaked me out and it was really 50% less believe it or not.

I am recovering from it and it is unlikely that future updates without major features or changes will cost anything.

So please don't start whining or saying on forums things that would make me look bad because in the end it doesn't work at all, people are judging by the quality of my work and what they get for the money spent.

Like it or not I don't care, I am a self made man and say what I want to say.

I won't buy your plugins because you are stretched too thin and your business just isn't profitable enough to make this your primary source of income. If you were a full time synth/FX plugin developer with an entire line of products, then yeah, I would support you in a heartbeat. But I'm not buying any more music software that's going to end up in the virtual trash can in a few years because the developer can't devote the time and energy to provide timely product updates. If people can't even rely on Native Instruments to release anything other than more lame Maschine expansion packs and boring Reaktor and Kontakt-based "instruments," then how is a single guy like yourself going to make a go of it part time?

My suggestion would be to partner with a more established plugin developer and let them deal with the business side of things while you focus on enhancing your plugins in what time you have available to work on them. Who knows, your business partner might have an ace UI designer on staff who can make your products look even slicker and more enticing. And any business partner you select would likely have either the marketing dollars or perhaps just the social media marketing savvy to increase your product sales enough to make up for the cut your partner would take.

[wvshpr]

[Aly James]

We're all going to continue supporting Aly James Lab because his plugins are extremely good and we do not want him to consider quitting. That's an outcome nobody wants to see.

I am not begging anything my man, VProm never got an update for years, the last one will certainly be a stable one for years, so asking $5 for an upgrade won't kill anybody especially for a product with an already low price for what you get and considering my pricing history..., on the other hand what happened last summer freaked me out and it was really 50% less believe it or not.

I am recovering from it and it is unlikely that future updates without major features or changes will cost anything.

So please don't start whining or saying on forums things that would make me look bad because in the end it doesn't work at all, people are judging by the quality of my work and what they get for the money spent.

Like it or not I don't care, I am a self made man and say what I want to say.

I won't buy your plugins because you are stretched too thin and your business just isn't profitable enough to make this your primary source of income. If you were a full time synth/FX plugin developer with an entire line of products, then yeah, I would support you in a heartbeat. But I'm not buying any more music software that's going to end up in the virtual trash can in a few years because the developer can't devote the time and energy to provide timely product updates. If people can't even rely on Native Instruments to release anything other than more lame Maschine expansion packs and boring Reaktor and Kontakt-based "instruments," then how is a single guy like yourself going to make a go of it part time?

My suggestion would be to partner with a more established plugin developer and let them deal with the business side of things while you focus on enhancing your plugins in what time you have available to work on them. Who knows, your business partner might have an ace UI designer on staff who can make your products look even slicker and more enticing. And any business partner you select would likely have either the marketing dollars or perhaps just the social media marketing savvy to increase your product sales enough to make up for the cut your partner would take.

I don't know why someone resurrected a 2019 statement when a new shiny release pops out...
but I am not going anywhere
AJLAB is there since 2014 and a guy alone IS profitable enough, like you see I now have PC/Mac VST3 AU in Universal 2 format which will benefit all products down the line like VSDSX, I have upped my game over the years albeit maybe slower than if I had a full team but it's noticeably better and continue to improve following suggestions and experience.

I totally respect his point of view, but for me it's not a business per se, I would do it on my spare time anyway even if I wouldn't sell anything because those creations aren't designed to be mass marketed or to appeal to a wide audience, I do it for myself, it happens that they do appeal so I'm thankful for that and try to evolve in a direction where it would somewhat please the most but I wouldn't loose my identity either in favor of a mass audience.
Nobody will offer you 100% peace of mind, even a large company, shits happen all the time...what we have is the NOW, at least you won't need to sell a kidney to get an AJLAB product and even if something would end up "in the trash" like he said you won't loose your house either.

I you do something you love and it becomes a business, ask yourself if you are owning your business or if the business owns you, the moment you start to feel obliged to please your "market" you become an employee of the monster you created in the first place unless you are doing that only for money and in this case you might as well sell the whole thing for profit and retire.
There's a fine line there but to me passion & freedom pays more in the end on a personal level.

Anyway things are actually improving so please focus on that but don't expect me going anywhere of sell out to an investment group

[Aly James]

Installed the upgrade yesterday and couldn't really spot any difference between this 2.3 release and 2.0 version. It was only a point release so assumed maybe it was just bug fixes and/or a backend change to make it work on newer mac OSs.

It wasn't until I saw Aly's pretty animated screenshot at the top of this page that I noticed my version hadn't actually updated at all! Seems like the installer (on the Windows version anyway) doesn't overwrite the old .vst3, and you have to uninstall the old version first using 'Add/Remove Programs' if you wanna update ...

Yep, that's why I suggest to uninstall first
Latest version have an updated VST3 format, on Mac this isn't a problem, files should overwrite but on PC you might end up with 2 plug-ins files with the same ID and chances are that your DAW will pick the old one.
note for myself write things in bold

[Aly James]

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Also, release that syncussion man! Would love to drive that thing!

Thanks! it's been a labor of love! Syncussion's Next
BTW all future updates for any plug-in will have Universal 2 (Native Silicon/Intel ) Mac VST3 + AU, on PC this includes an updated VST3 format.

Any estimate on when your syncussion plugin will be available? It would be sure to sell well since there aren't really any (working) syncussion plugins.

expectation : September
realistic : Before Xmas

The DSP is already done so there's that, what I can already say is that it is like having 4 Syncussion units in one (total 8 voices) that it got additional modes, that those modes can changes by trigger using the sample & hold signal (every new hit will step through modes) and that there is a modular panel where you can cross modulate voices in a funky way...

[mcbpete]

files should overwrite but on PC you might end up with 2 plug-ins files with the same ID and chances are that your DAW will pick the old one.

Yeah I had two listed in Reaper - the definitely old VST2 but the [presumed to have been overwritten] VST3. Is there possibly a permissions restriction with the installer and it's unable to overwrite the old v2.0 .vst3 ?

[Aly James]

files should overwrite but on PC you might end up with 2 plug-ins files with the same ID and chances are that your DAW will pick the old one.

Yeah I had two listed in Reaper - the definitely old VST2 but the [presumed to have been overwritten] VST3. Is there possibly a permissions restriction with the installer and it's unable to overwrite the old v2.0 .vst3 ?

I think 2.0 uninstaller will get rid of VST2 but the v2.3 is only VST3 it won't overwrite anything in that regards because one: VST2 could have been installed anywhere, two: it doesn't install any VST2

edit: forgot to repeat, on PC the file structure isn't the same between v2.0 and v2.3, to say simply it's not the same path, that's why there is an uninstaller in the first place, use it B4 installing latest version

[Ex Machina]

We're all going to continue supporting Aly James Lab because his plugins are extremely good and we do not want him to consider quitting. That's an outcome nobody wants to see.

If I was using a PC as my primary music computer the situation might be different. I have 10 year old 64 bit VST2 plugins that still work in Windows 11. However, Steinberg has dropped support for VST2 in Cubase Pro 12 so even those plugins are no longer usable unless the developers can update them in a timely manner to VST3.

On my Mac the situation is much worse. Not only do developers need to create Apple Silicon native versions of their plugins but they also need to spend a considerable amount of time to really understand the new SOC processor architecture to optimize their Apple Silicon plugins to their fullest. And then of course Apple releases new macOS updates almost every year which inevitably breaks some (but certainly not all) native plugins.

I would just build an Intel Core i9 13900K water cooled PC tower if I could be assured the damn thing would work reliably. But in my experience you need to perform a clean install on your PC every 6 months to a year including reinstalling 100s of plugins otherwise your PC will slow to a crawl and crash constantly. This was on Windows 7 so perhaps things have changed for the better with Windows 10 and 11. For instance my newer Intel NUC "gamer" Vienna Ensemble slave PC which is about the size of a paperback book works great running Windows 10. But I'm only running Vienna Ensemble on it along with my large VSL orchestral sample libraries.

Anyway, I switched back to a quad core 2.8GHz MacBook Pro Core i7 in 2015. I just couldn't deal with the flakiness of my PC anymore. I literally replaced every single component of that hexacore 3.2GHz Core i7 PC tower one by one including the motherboard, graphics card, RAM, and even the SSDs in an attempt to troubleshoot the situation. But nothing worked. In hindsight I think the problem was with my RME RayDat PCIe audio interface card. RME has such a stellar reputation for writing the best audio drivers in the business. But I've had two RME audio cards and they were both complete shit that conflicted with several different graphics cards I tried and god only knows what else.

I now have a MOTU 16A 32 channel Thunderbolt 2 audio interface that works flawlessly with my M1 Max MacBook Pro. I've never had a single problem with the 16A even when connecting over 20 hardware synths to it.

[Aly James]

We're all going to continue supporting Aly James Lab because his plugins are extremely good and we do not want him to consider quitting. That's an outcome nobody wants to see.

If I was using a PC as my primary music computer the situation might be different. I have 10 year old 64 bit VST2 plugins that still work in Windows 11. However, Steinberg has dropped support for VST2 in Cubase Pro 12 so even those plugins are no longer usable unless the developers can update them in a timely manner to VST3.

On my Mac the situation is much worse. Not only do developers need to create Apple Silicon native versions of their plugins but they also need to spend a considerable amount of time to really understand the new SOC processor architecture to optimize their Apple Silicon plugins to their fullest. And then of course Apple releases new macOS updates almost every year which inevitably breaks some (but certainly not all) native plugins.

I would just build an Intel Core i9 13900K water cooled PC tower if I could be assured the damn thing would work reliably. But in my experience you need to perform a clean install on your PC every 6 months to a year including reinstalling 100s of plugins otherwise your PC will slow to a crawl and crash constantly. This was on Windows 7 so perhaps things have changed for the better with Windows 10 and 11. For instance my newer Intel NUC "gamer" Vienna Ensemble slave PC is about the size of a paperback book and works great running Windows 10. But I'm only running Vienna Ensemble on it along with my large VSL orchestral sample libraries.

Anyway, I switched back to a quad core 2.8GHz MacBook Pro Core i7 in 2015. I just couldn't deal with the flakiness of my PC anymore. I literally replaced every single component of that hexacore 3.2GHz Core i7 PC tower one by one including the motherboard, graphics card, RAM, and even the SSDs in an attempt to troubleshoot the situation. But nothing worked. In hindsight I think the problem was with my RME RayDat PCIe audio interface card. RME has such a stellar reputation for writing the best audio drivers in the business. But I've had two RME audio cards and they were both complete shit that conflicted with several different graphics cards I tried and god only knows what else.

I now have a MOTU 16A 32 channel Thunderbolt 2 audio interface that works flawlessly with my M1 Max MacBook Pro. I've never had a single problem with the 16A even when connecting over 20 hardware synths to it.

If I was using a PC as my primary music computer the situation might be different.

VSDSX is Mac VST3 and AU x64 Native Silicon + Native Intel...

In hindsight I think the problem was with my RME RayDat PCIe audio interface card

I was lurking at this card last year...I think they have changed it or replaced it since, was it that bad?

[Aly James]

Anybody notice "mousewheel" control over knobs and sliders ? + CTRL = fine tuning.

[machinesworking]

I saw this pop up and read the whole thread. Holy crap, what a load of garbage about $5?? That's literally not enough money for anything here in Seattle, yet people flipped out!
I think I'm buying the VSDSX out of spite towards people being petty!

I hate asking this, but when is but when is OBXtreme going Apple Silicon native? The GUI doesn't animate here under Rosetta.