graphical pitch bend flattened version

AngularMomentum · 17 Sept 2006

I tried to replace the dragY with a dragX but I ended up with inverted mouse interaction.

Here is a version with the SE pitch bend graphic, you probably have to get a SE license though before using this in your VST. I will see if I can make one like that myself if I get the time.

Edit: Already made time for it...here's a new graphic on your pitch bender.

http://www.amvst.com/osm/pitch_bend_lever_edit.osm

cAPSLOCK · 17 Sept 2006

Very nicely done, both of you.

AM... has it been asked before what tool/s yuo use to draw render your GUIS? If not, may I ask this now? 😉

I am sure if I have the same tools I will have the same talent.

AngularMomentum · 17 Sept 2006

I just use photoshop...I am pretty handy with layer styles.

electrogear · 21 Sept 2006

Hey you said Photosoup beofre! Liar.... 🙂 Is it a paid for copy of Photoshop? How much does the newest Photoshop cost? I was thinking about buying it, although I am reluctant to pay for software that is mega -expensive (i.e. Reason, Cubase etc) when I can bearly afford food to keep me alive.... 😕 lol. Oh, just for the record, I'm not condoning cracked software, and I don't use it. Morals are one thing I do have (and stand by) regardless of the money. 🙂

oddson · 21 Sept 2006

@gear I saw elsewhere that you're a student. You can get a discounted student version but you are limited to non commercial uses.

The full commercial version is plenty expensive. Paint Shop Pro is appearently pretty good these days. There's also PhotoShop Elements which has most of the features of the main program except layer masks.

AngularMomentum · 21 Sept 2006

electrogear wrote: Hey you said Photosoup beofre! Liar.... 🙂 Is it a paid for copy of Photoshop? How much does the newest Photoshop cost? I was thinking about buying it, although I am reluctant to pay for software that is mega -expensive (i.e. Reason, Cubase etc) when I can bearly afford food to keep me alive.... 😕 lol. Oh, just for the record, I'm not condoning cracked software, and I don't use it. Morals are one thing I do have (and stand by) regardless of the money. 🙂

Yes mega expensive, I am using Photoshop 7 still, 375 bucks and that was in that time even a discount.

electrogear · 21 Sept 2006

But if I did get the discounted student version, and used it to make graphics for my VSTs............... would I be prosecuted? And how could they prove I had used Photoshop to do it? Just a few probing questions 😕 I want to stay as far away as having my bank account emptied/a criminal record as I can. I might just use SM's graphics, but it will make the VST's look less professional & unique won't it?..... and I can't see them selling (that's what I would like to do ultimately to help fund my degree).

On the subject.... how much is a sensible amount to charge for a VST? I was thinking £15 for each one I create (varying depending on how complex they are/how long they take me to make)

I'm looking at creating a drum VSTi at the moment. I've been looking into it, and it's a very interesting one. If it's feasible, I'm going to try & recreate drum skin & wall resonance, (for double skins too) and size. That's a long way off yet though, as I'm still learning SM basics!

Thanks,

Mike

GaryG · 22 Sept 2006

You could try the Gimp, very powerful image editor for free. There's even an addon that makes it behave just like Photoshop (Gimpshop?) so if you eventually upgrade to Photoshop, you'll already know where all the options/menus are.

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Shifrin · 22 Sept 2006

I've been using The GIMP since I was back at Uni and found it on their Linux machines - it does have certain peculiarities but once you get used to the workflow I find it pretty damn good - especially for the price 😉

Yep, GIMP and Blender cover my graphics needs for free!

Shif.

electrogear · 22 Sept 2006

Thanks for that! I'll check that out later. 🙂 Actually I'm very fluent with Microsoft Paint 😀 We were supposed to use AutoCAD to produce drawings for my HNC project, but I never went to the CAD lessons because there was a 3 hour wait between the last lesson and the optional CAD lesson, and I lived an hour away, so I managed to bluff it using Microsoft paint! It was probably prettier than anything I could have made in AutoCAD. Only problem is, you can't get a very high resolution in MS Paint, so I couldn't use it for SM graphics.

GaryG · 22 Sept 2006

funnily enough, there is a free ms-paint 'replacement' available from MS - Paint.NET

only played with it briefly but looked pretty powerfull for day to day stuff.

you need .net installed on your pc though, I know some people frown upon it from an audio point of view (hogging resources, yada, yada...)

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electrogear · 22 Sept 2006

Cool, I'll have a look at that too. That would be cool. If you could do things like fading colours & effects that would be adequate. I wouldn't have to go about learning photoshop then.

Cheers,

Mike

P.S. What is .NET?

rlahalla · 22 Sept 2006

Gimp and Blender, as shif mentioned are both free, and both awesome tools as well. Honestly, I find them both pretty high class projects, and you can make some serious graphics with them both. And as shif also mentioned in another post, tobybear's gfxutils and skOre's auto button stitcher will take care of your every animated bitmap needs. Here are some URLs -

[a] tobybear's GFXutils - http://www.tobybear.de/p_other.html [b] GIMP - http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ [c] blender - http://www.blender.org/cms/Home.2.0.html

and you can get skOre's auto button stitcher from the forum here.

GaryG · 22 Sept 2006

electrogear wrote: P.S. What is .NET?

now there's a question... 🙂

It's basically a set of standards MS have developed so it's easier (discuss...) to connect different systems, web services etc. together. They've a whole range of languages (visual basic, C# etc) that all use .NET, you use functions from the .NET framework instead of writing your own thus making development quicker, more easily updatable etc etc...

What this means to you and me is if we want to run something written in one of these languages (like Paint.NET) then we need the .Net framework installed on our desktop. It's a hefty download (25mb?) and there are those who argue it clogs up your PC a tadge, running extra services in the background. Which, potentially, could cause problems with all these highly tuned audio/music apps we love so much...

Of course you could well already have it, I think it's mandatory with Window SP2...

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Rockhouse · 22 Nov 2006

🙂 I was just wondering is there anyway to make the pitch bend graphic snap back to centre. If so then how would go about that