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#1

Help and Questions / Re: Octane VST

Last post by Saga Musix - Today at 11:42:45

It seems like they have now implemented MIDI CC 121 (aka Reset All Controllers / All Controllers Off) in a way that doesn't crash, but still incorrectly. From the official MIDI specification: "When a device receives the Reset All Controllers message (121), it should reset the condition of all its controllers (continuous and switch controllers, pitch bend, and pressures) to what it considers an ideal initial state (Mod wheel to 0, Pitch Bend to center, etc.)." - it's not the first time that I see a plugin developer interpreting it as "set all controllers to 0" instead. I'll send them another email asking this to be corrected. It seems like no plugin parameter or CC message can recover from this state, but dialling in a new preset for the Octane UI fixes the issue, so it looks like they reset some internal value when this CC is received that cannot be influenced from the outside.

#2

Help and Questions / Re: Octane VST

Last post by Cartman1337 - Yesterday at 21:13:13

I got another reply from the developers and the latest version of the plugin should finally fix this issue. Based on a quick test it does that here.

Do you still have this plugin? Contrary to your short test, my tests with all previous versions of it have all been the same as before; crashing OpenMPT and the plugin within a couple of minutes. However, they released a new version yesterday, which I haven't manage to crash yet. But now I face a different problem; if I try to Stream Export to an audio file, the resulting audio file receives no audio whatsoever, except sometimes it gets the remaining reverb if I don't choose "clear cache" before going quiet.

When playing the OctaneTest you provided earlier it now doesn't crash, but it goes quiet when it gets to the Z79 row.

If you have some new tips on getting sound out of this VST now that it seems somewhat more stable I can perhaps finally get some use out of it.

Is there a way to export audio in real time, while playing the track?

#3

Development Corner / Re: New JavaScript library to ...

Last post by chr15m - May 30, 2024, 17:39:54

Thank you yes I was worried about using this value but I wasn't sure how to change it. Now that you have shown me I'll make the change. I created an issue here so I don't forget:

https://github.com/chr15m/itwriter/issues/3

Thanks again!

#4

Help and Questions / Re: Move notes while expanding...

Last post by Saga Musix - May 30, 2024, 16:57:11

The main problem here is that if such an option existed in that dialog, it would also have to work for non-trivial cases where the factor between the two pattern sizes is not 2. Such resampling is an (comparatively) easy task for images or samples, but with the relatively low detail that patterns have, it would be much harder to achieve this is in a good way. That said, it could be interesting to have this option for modifying patterns to go from 4 rows per beat to 3 rows per beat (for triplets) - if it can be made to work properly.

#5

Help and Questions / Re: Move notes while expanding...

Last post by Cartman1337 - May 30, 2024, 16:08:07

What you are asking for is exactly what happens if you click the Expand Pattern or Shrink Pattern icons. Is that not what you're observing?

Oh my! I haven't noticed those icons before. I've always gone through pattern properties and used the /2 or x2 buttons there, that just adds a big chunk at either the top or bottom.

Thanks for making me search out the icon names you were referring, since those didn't have the same name as the "pattern properties" I used. Wouldn't be amiss to have the same options added to that dialog, though.

#6

Help and Questions / Re: Move notes while expanding...

Last post by Saga Musix - May 30, 2024, 15:26:43

What you are asking for is exactly what happens if you click the Expand Pattern or Shrink Pattern icons. Is that not what you're observing?

#7

Development Corner / Re: New JavaScript library to ...

Last post by Saga Musix - May 30, 2024, 15:25:28

Interesting project - but if I can ask for one thing: This tool should probably not identify as OpenMPT 1.29 in the header. Depending on the use case this may not be a big problem, but effectively means that if OpenMPT (or libopenmpt) plays any file generated with this tool, it will always do so with the playback settings according to how that OpenMPT version played them (including all playback bugs and differences compared to original Impulse Tracker). It would be safer to either identify as Impulse Tracker 2.14 (0x1402 instead of 0x2951), or allocate your own tracker ID (see wiki page). In the latter case, it may be a good idea to use a single fixed ID in the Dxxx range (like SPC2IT) without any version information attached to it. As yet another alternative, you could of course make this version number configurable.

#8

General Chatter / Re: Here are stuffs that I'm m...

Last post by Saga Musix - May 30, 2024, 15:18:10

Please let me know if you're interested so I'll have some motivations to work on it! ^w^

By all means go ahead

#9

General Chatter / Re: Making my own music commun...

Last post by Saga Musix - May 30, 2024, 15:15:45

Using my totalitarian power and my massive ego to close this absolute train wreck of a thread. There is absolutely nothing to be had in this discussion, which has absolutely nothing to do with the original question.

Exhale, every software project needs a vision and someone who steers that vision. Too many cooks spoil the broth. If you cannot agree with my vision, that is completely fine, but just because you get frustrated because I may see things differently than you doesn't mean that you get to call malicious, totalitarian or being a person with a big ego. If you think it is so easy to run a project like this while allowing everyone to add their 10 cents at any point in time, and have the software survive without becoming a big messy collection of bugs and half-baked features, then by all means go ahead and show us how much better OpenMPT could be if it was done that way. If you look around a bit, 99% of forks done because of those reasons died very quickly, and for good practical reasons.

#10

General Chatter / Re: Making my own music commun...

Last post by Alice (Midori) - May 30, 2024, 11:04:01

I think females are very creative and I would like to see more females on computer music forums and communities. It always seems like computer music forums and communities have mostly males, as well as males who identify as females. I'm on a Discord computer music group and it seems like so many of the members use non traditional pronouns, and one person who I though for the longest time was a female turned out to be a biological male identifying as a female and using a female avatar, these are very confusing days.

Those people are not "males", those are most likely transgender women.