Anybody care to explain these components?

jorge · 7 Apr 2004

bManic, I'm on holidays in Wales at the moment until the 15th April. I wont answer all your questions but I'll try some.

The Regex component is used for regular expressions, it accepts as inputs the Syntax, the expression itself and a trigger input to start parsing it. Each match is output through the String output. If you dont know what regular expressions are, you can have a look here: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/Komodo/komodo-doc-regex-intro.html

The CompFactory component creates a new component at coordinates X and Y in the schematic view as if it was dragged from the toolbox. The comp integer input is an ID that defines the component to be created, for example ID=300 creates an argb2Bmp component. The trigger input triggers the creation of the component.

The Regex and CompFactory components will eventually be used together for creating schematics from expressions or for importing user defines file formats. They're the very beginning of a very advanced feature. In order to make it all work you'll also need LinkFactory and ModuleFactory components which are not implemented yet. I'm very interested in suggestions related to it.

One application that I had in mind while creating Regex and CompFactory is to allow users to implement the functionality to import NordModular patches into synthmaker. Another application is to allow users to type a math function rather than using schematic capture.

The DynCustom component is used to create a custom 64K table of floats. When the Update input is triggered, the Integer output goes from 0 to 65535 collecting whichever result arrives at the float input. The graph output allows you to display the values in the table. You can basically create any function/envelope/oscillator you want with the existing green Var components.

You can have a look at how to use the anchor input/output components at: http://www.kvr-vst.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39186&start=15 They're basically used to create your own symbols for example for Digital Filter diagrams.

bManic · 7 Apr 2004

Thanks for the explanations Jorge. Have a very nice holiday! You most definately deserve it. Incase you happen to pop up in here I've got one more question:

Is it possible to make the oscillators run all the time? Let me be more specific. How can I get a sinewave to play all the time without any user interaction? Now when I connect a sinewave oscillator straight to a poly-->mono module and then to the ouputs nothing happens. Actually nothing happens even when I insert an input module and connecti it's freq out to the sine freq in. Is this the audiophile bug maybe? It's weird coz the example schematic does produce sound. Anyways, I'm asking all this because I tried to build a simple ringmodulator VST fx but couldn't get the sine wave that is supposed to modulate the incoming signal to do anything.

Cheers! bManic