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attic ·
In the above scenario sometimes you would have to rely on whether specific files were created in order to tell if an external executable had finished running.
Thanks for that explanation. It helps to know what you can get away with. I have been thinking about using some outside exe's but haven't decided on a good plan yet so it helps to hear how others approach it. I used an old program called Multimedia Builder to embed a Synthmaker exe inside of it and send some commands. Its kinda interesting as the whole Gui is usable from in a second one. It also has a very interesting scripting language with support for mp3s and other audio related things. On the other hand enough with the hacks ... lets hope Ruby is on its way.
McBarGig ·
Attic, where can I get that program? I have something to do that uses MP3's and converting to wave on the fly is crazy...
Jay ·
Multimedia builder is an old legacy app from the company Mediachance http://www.mediachance.com/download.htm and on checking tonight it is no longer available to buy McBarGig! torrents 😉 lol well it is dead after all
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you could take a look at Neobook! http://www.neosoftware.com/nbw.html it is very very similar but goes a whole lot further plus it has the ability to use vst's with the relevant plugins for Neobook!
i use it and it is great, oh and it has a Ruby addon as well as a plethora of other addon features/plugins for free as well as pay for addons from many developers! right i'd better stop there or neosoft will have to pay me a wage!
Hope that helps!
best regards
attic ·
You can get it here. http://www.mediachance.com/mmb/index.html It runs great in Win 7. MMB is special in its own right, you can build an mp3 player in minutes. It maybe legacy but its still worth its weight in gold.
The forum is here http://www.mmbforums.com/viewforum.php?f=17
Scripts and Plugins here http://mmbsamples.com/category/mmb-plug-ins/
@Jay Neobook!! Well at least its still being developed. What is the plugin you can host vst's in, and the Ruby addon Where do I find them?
McBarGig ·
Interesting guys Thanks, I'll check them out when I get a chance
attic ·
http://www.mmbforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=806
@McBarGig Take a peak here it will give you an idea of what can be done for Mp3 players.
infuzion ·
Jay wrote: Multimedia builder is an old legacy app from the company Mediachance http://www.mediachance.com/download.htm and on checking tonight it is no longer available to buy McBarGig! torrents 😉 lol well it is dead after all
or
you could take a look at Neobook! http://www.neosoftware.com/nbw.html it is very very similar but goes a whole lot further plus it has the ability to use vst's with the relevant plugins for Neobook!
Reminds me of CanDo! for Amiga RIP.
What's wrong with Adobe Air? It is free isn't it?
BTW, this part of the tread should become its own tread, not OT with SM's triggers anymore 😉
attic ·
CanDo! for Amiga RIP.
That makes feel so nostalgic. Infuzion has a point this Tutorials thread is an important addition to the forum best to keep it clean. Feel free to move this to its own thread. Also there are other appz of course AutoIt and I have used GameMaker http://www.yoyogames.com/make, Mediator http://www.matchware.com/en/products/mediator/ and as Infuzion mentioned Air but I think Director might be interesting to do these kind of hacks. Here is a link to a recording plugin for MMB http://mmbsamples.com/record-plugin/ Gamemaker had a dll that you could capture video from screen that had potential. OK now I will stop posting until this is moved but I have some other thoughts on this but they can wait.
Jay ·
Hi attic and all
The ruby plugin is by HPW on the forum here http://www.neosoftware.com/forum/viewto ... light=ruby
The "Advanced Audio plugin" (vst) is from a chap calling himself Techmedia you can find him and his plugins all over the neosoft forum too m8 and the demo is in the neosoft resource centre http://www.neosoftware.com/neobook/modules/MainMenu/
sorry for posting back here again infuzion, just needed to answer the question asked of me!
and apologies to Troggy for hijacking his superb triggers tuts thread
Mods please move our inane ramblings
Best Regards
trogluddite ·
Jay wrote: apologies to Troggy for hijacking his superb triggers tuts thread
No problem - think I hijacked my own thread by venting about Ruby anyway!
attic ·
@Jay thanks for the info seems interesting and still has support. The odd thing is that the Mbass stuff lower on this page for Multimedia builder seems to be a BASS library port with Source code included (C/C++). The Bass library seems to be what Techmedia used to program his vst plugin for Neosoft here http://www.neosoftware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17916&highlight=techmedia using this the Bass library here. http://www.un4seen.com/
So if anyone feels like the MMB route I did some scouting around for file resources and there are some interesting finds.
First you will want to grab some plugins.
Here is a link to a plugin downloader app. http://www.mmbforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1117
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There are 178 plugins in the downloader app and I haven't had a chance to look at all of them yet but you could start with these as they are audio related plugins.
MediaFXv2
PBass
MMBrip
MediaLight PlugIn
RecordPlugin
There are a lot of others I just haven't had time to sort or figure out
what does what yet.
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Plugins in Multimedia builder are just dll files. Place them in the MMB plugin folder and they will run and embed into your builds. The .mbd files are the source when MMB is installed you can just double click them to open and they have that red cube icon so they are easy to see.
There are these on the web that you should also check.
MBass PlugIn here at this website
BASS library port for MMB. Source code included (C/C++). Can also be found here if you want the (C/C++)
http://yuraj.ucoz.com/index/mbass_plugin/0-36
XTMedia PlugIn
MBass PlugIn without the source and earlier build here?
http://yuraj.ucoz.com/index/0-13
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This website has an unfortunate name but has nothing to do with warez the sf2 decompiler is very interesting.
http://www.blissland.net/blisswarez/main.htm
Spectrum Analyzer Source
BlissPlayer VX-1 Source
BlissVorbis Source - uses MediaBox plug-in by bokzy
SF2Cgui Source - Front end for the command line SoundFont compiler/decompiler Found here http://www.hammersound.net/mirrors/last_night/sf.htm
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It seems you should be able to do different types of audio conversions definitely playback depending on the dll functions of the plugins. At first look Mp3 Mp2 Mp1 Ogg Wav AIFF and probably just playback on the older stuff MO3 MOD S3M MTM. The Mbas plugin seams to have stream functions. There is also a vst hosting plugin floating around but I haven't figured out what plugin that is yet.
Multimedia builder is older and no longer supported but it is a really great program that still works fine even under Win 7 64.
I personally want to do a few things, convert two mono wav files into one stereo wav file, also convert mp3s to wav and back. So if I can get a small exe to do that I will upload it here for other's use. If anyone else figures it out first let me know what you found.
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