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Simple green schematic does not work in Cubase 4

Archive · 2008 7 old posts

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bootsy ·

Howdy!

During the beta test of my upcoming reverb this strange bug came out in Cubase 4 (and only in this host) and I wasn't able to work-around so far:

In the reverb the late reverb gets muted if some knobs are turned (to eliminate crackles/artifacts) and this muting schematic does not work in C4. It's just very few and plain green data, really nothing special at all.

Attached is an example of this mute, it just simply mutes the incoming audio when the volume knob is changed for some miliseconds. In all hosts this works quiet well. But in Cubase 4 it causes two problems: a) plugin stays muted after loading in host (until knob is touched) b) plugin stays muted after preset change (until knob is touched) which should not be happen.

Any ideas/clues?

Is there a known issue concerning triggering or the timer module in C4?

Thanks in advance, bootsy

aliasant ·

Cool little thing.

I have had problems with Integer primitives and sometimes a solution was to replace the integer with a float. In your case the Integer Switch to a float switch.

Could maybe be the timer but try that exchange first.

bootsy ·

It seems the de-threader is a proper workaround to this. Using timers with MIDI

TomC ·

bootsy wrote: Howdy!

During the beta test of my upcoming reverb this strange bug came out in Cubase 4 (and only in this host) and I wasn't able to work-around so far:

Send the schematic to malc, he'll add it to my list of Cubase 4 incompatibilities. I can't help you with your problem, but in general double check everything with presets, automation and initialization (like Afterload) before you release a new plug-in. I have several projects 'on hold' because of this. It's a SynthMaker problem.

Tom

matti ·

bootsy wrote: Any ideas/clues?

Wouldn't it be good to stop the timer too? Connect the trigger from the timer's output to the Stop input. It would be logical also to trigger the True first and then the Timer, so that the output of the Timer would certainly be after the initial trigger.

So there's a bit of logic problems in your schematic. I'm not sure if they will correct the problems you are havig in C4, but it would be worth testing.

bootsy ·

My understanding was that the timer actually is already stopped when the time is elapsed. However, I reported that to Malc and took the lane with the de-threader which works fine.

matti ·

Could you still test what the modifications i mention do on your Cubase4? I'm not sure what hosts the devs currently have, so i'm guessing your tests could be usefull in identifying the problem..

Btw. i suspect the problem is in the way vst-parameter data is handled so the de-threader might be the only solution to this.

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