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fender-rox ·
Hello all, My Name is nick, and Im glad to meet you all! I need some help locating some white chicken head style knobs and
some fender style knobs so I can complete my fender twin and vox ac30 vst clones Im working on. any help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED. I tried knobman, but I just cant seem to get the hang of it. Is there a way to change an image file within a knob .osm file? like changing a bitmap? I know some guys and gals on here are super veterans at this stuff, and I know I can get this resolved here.
thanks for the help in advance,
Nick. 🙂
Xtinct ·
Hi Nick search the forum for image saver you can then save and edit any knobs strips, great if you just want to change a colour.
Hope this helps.
trogluddite ·
Hi Nick, welcome to the forum.
The SM bitmap knobs will work with any image that is made up of a series of frames glued together into a long strip - i.e. lots of images of the same knob side-by-side, each in a slightly different rotation. PNGs are best, as they use alpha transparency the right way to get realistic shadows where the front panel shows through.
Knobman is well worth persevering with if you intend on doing a lot of this kind of thing, but it is quite possible in any image editing software. The main advantage of Knobman is that it saves you from having to create each individual frame manually - more a matter of convenience than it being a better design tool (IMHO it is not at all well suited to irregular shapes like chicken-heads).
I would certainly check out the forums for whatever image editing software you use - for example, there is a plugin for PhotoShop that is designed for creating these kind of "animation strips" (see here). Also, it may be worth checking out the forum for the SynthEdit VST creator, as that software uses exactly the same principle for it's animated GUI items. If you can find an existing "animation strip" that is close, then colour and tone edits are simple, due to all frames being on a single image layer.
If you can live with slightly less realistic shadows/"3D", it is also possible to make an SM knob that simply rotates a single bitmap image instead of using frames - but possibly that would be a little too "cartoony" for your needs.
fender-rox ·
Thanks Guys!, i found a link on here for help with knobman, I think its an older version in the build (maybe ver.1.0?)
but I think I may have figured it out. This place is great!
THANKS GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!
acg2010 ·
This project looks exactly like the one I posted here: Guitar Amp revisited
Even peppermint's knobs are still present in figure 2 and figure 1 shows my exact schematic. Just curious how you came up with your project?
-Ph D(J)
fender-rox ·
Hello, I been using everyone's modules and doing a few convolution ir wavetable mods to make them sound like different amps. Ive decompiled other plugs like amplitibe, revalver ect. and have been studying there wave tables with c++ and building modules based upon them like like amp and pre amp circuits, and studying different overdrive types. Ive been adjusting and rebuilding the above plug, and inputing a vox ac30 wavetable IR to make it sound more like a vox. I will post all of my custom modules when i complete my plugs. the plugs will also be available for free download as well. Im not taking full credit for anything, except my custom built modules that will be free for the community to use however they seem fit for future build or whatever. 🙂 SYNTHMAKER ROCKS!
fender-rox ·
Hey guys, Thanks for the help so far, but I REALLY NEED Fender amp style knobs. Im just not getting it right with
knobman. I saw this thread here, 😮
Vintage Knobs
but the knobs are not available for download any longer and the knob I need is in it. anyone have this that they might want to upload? I went to the other pages that were suggested to look for it, but only found developer pages with nothing to download. 🙂
thanks in advance, Nick.
acg2010 ·
Did you try the gallery at the knobman software website?
http://www.g200kg.com/en/webknobman/gallery.php
Has chicken head knob. You can just change color in knobman. Not sure what other Fender knobs look like, but maybe you can find something close to it in gallery and change it.
-Ph D(J)
fender-rox ·
yeah, been there but no luck either. thanks for the suggestion 🙂
Xtinct ·
It would really help if you said which fender amp style knobs you were looking for
is it any of these ?
fender-rox ·
Hello, Im looking for the black witch hat knob with the white numbers and chrome center. I found the guy who made one on an old forum and emailed him a PM but he has not responded. this knob issue is the only thing stopping me from skinning and releasing the fender twin plug Ive built. 😕
Thanks, Nick. 🙂
fender-rox ·
I f you could make this knob, I will Give you credit for it in the about section of the plugin 🙂
nix ·
Here you go,
you can credit me as nix.
It not as cool as Jonathon's, but basically it.
fender-rox ·
GREAT WORK,THANK YOU! I will Include your name "Nix" in the credits and post the vst when its completed.
THANKS AGAIN! 🙂
nix ·
Cheers!
ur welcome 8D
fender-rox ·
Thanks for the help guys! here is the first beta of my amp sim. enjoy! 🙂
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