Hi, the thing is not "that much free".tahome wrote:Hi all,
I just came across the updated web site of Stefan Bernsee (aka Stefan Sprenger) and noticed that there's a free download of his new time stretching technology called "dirac". Even though I'm not a software guy I managed to get it to run with the example project in xcode on the Mac and - wow! Anyone cares to make a plug in out of it?? Pretty pretty pleeeze?
Cheers,
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EDIT: stupid me - the URL is http://www.dspdimension.com. It#s in the technology category...
)I could download it with no problems. And I don't care if you need two instances for a stereo track so I don't see where it is limited in "essential things" or where I am pressed to pay money for it - in fact, nothing on that site costs anything. It's a time stretch/pitch shift allright, and a very good one at that... I'm not a developer so I need the help of one - I'd love to have it as a plug in (in Logic and VST) because the one in Logic sucks big time...jackle&hyde wrote:Hi, the thing is not "that much free".
It has to be licensed. Full feature set only with the pro version possible (others are limited in essential things).
Kewl, thanks!GHilgemann wrote:i develop a little command line tool (windoze)where you can check out the quality of dirac.
Is there any way how I can set the quality?and especially:DIRAC LE
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Note that you can save money by first incorporating the free DIRAC LE library into your application and upgrade to STUDIO and PRO as needed. The changes to your code will be minor to non-existent.
Unfortunately, neither VST nor AudioUnits will support time stretching plug-ins, because the plug-ins are not allowed to change the block length during processing. That is the reason why our Studio Time is DirectX only. Offline VST would support it, though...tahome wrote:It's a time stretch/pitch shift allright, and a very good one at that... I'm not a developer so I need the help of one - I'd love to have it as a plug in (in Logic and VST) because the one in Logic sucks big time...
so how come that Xtal works like a charm?stian wrote:Unfortunately, neither VST nor AudioUnits will support time stretching plug-ins, because the plug-ins are not allowed to change the block length during processing. That is the reason why our Studio Time is DirectX only. Offline VST would support it, though...tahome wrote:It's a time stretch/pitch shift allright, and a very good one at that... I'm not a developer so I need the help of one - I'd love to have it as a plug in (in Logic and VST) because the one in Logic sucks big time...
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Because XTal is a VST intstrument that reads the audio data from files. It doesn't need to process a data block from the host and return it...jens wrote:so how come that Xtal works like a charm?
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