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Creating vst's with no gui?

Archive · 2007 7 old posts

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tention ·

Hello Newk,

i know what you mean. I dont think it is possible in SM to do that, but for testing you could also take some standard knobs without anything around. That wont also eat as much CPU and you can group your controls even though, so the tester/user understands better in which area they work. I can remember an old plugin from tobybear i think, no gui but around 40 controls. That was very confusing for testing purposes...

rbreslin ·

Have you looked at the MIDI Splitter Primitive?

You could trap you control events here (I think) from and external controller. But you're still going to have to build the lihks to the bits of your VST you want to test.

oddson ·

headlessVST.osm

tention ·

oddson wrote: headlessVST.osm

Hello oddson,

that works fine. So it is really possible to do that, great. I have tested with Orion and it shows up all controls i created with the standard gui of the host. Thank you much for that.

EDIT: Is there any way to set the order of the controls? Currently they are set up in alphabetical order, that is not the best solution cause every 'group' of controls gets split.

stefan ·

There is no other way to order them, and the host could still decide to sort them in its own manner anyway afaik.

You could always prefix them with something that corresponds to the group they belong to (FLT, LFO etc).

tention ·

stefan wrote: There is no other way to order them, and the host could still decide to sort them in its own manner anyway afaik.

You could always prefix them with something that corresponds to the group they belong to (FLT, LFO etc).

I have already prefixed them, but the thing is that f.e. Release (R) is in front of Sustain (S). But if i cannot change it i have to think about another solution. Thanks anyway...

Shifrin ·

You could always prefix them with numbers

000-Amp A 001-Amp D 002-Amp S 003-Amp R

Of course if you then want to add, for example, "Amp H" you'd have to renumber everything following it

Shif.

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