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by Michael Willis
Sat Oct 07, 2023 1:42 pm
Forum: Developer's Section
Topic: Plugin development philosophy
Replies: 50
Views: 27091

Re: Plugin development philosophy

I'd still like to be able to find a plugin in an alphabetically ordered list, so delay plugins i.m.o. should be named "delay - <developer> - <cutesy name>" or something like this. What DAW are you using? In Ardour, if I go to add a plugin and search for "reverb", I get anything ...
by Michael Willis
Thu Oct 05, 2023 9:46 pm
Forum: Developer's Section
Topic: Plugin development philosophy
Replies: 50
Views: 27091

Re: Plugin development philosophy

Tallow: Saturated Phat

by Michael Willis
Thu Oct 05, 2023 9:14 pm
Forum: Developer's Section
Topic: Plugin development philosophy
Replies: 50
Views: 27091

Re: Plugin development philosophy

Fried Eggs (High Freq Noise Enhancer) Bacon (it 'spatters') (Lofi / Vinyl Effect) Butter (it spreads... get it?) (Stereo Width / HAAS) Olive Oil (Harmonics Exciter) Tallow (Bass Enhancer) These made me think of Sausage Fattener , which I've never used, but I'm convinced that half of the reason peop...
by Michael Willis
Thu Oct 05, 2023 9:08 pm
Forum: Developer's Section
Topic: Plugin development philosophy
Replies: 50
Views: 27091

Re: Plugin development philosophy

Ha! GMaq , your first response in this thread made me feel like you were saying "No vacancy! We already have too many plugins!" But now you're totally on board with a new suite of effects that have silly names. This is still really hypothetical. I only barely know enough about DSP to get m...
by Michael Willis
Thu Oct 05, 2023 7:18 pm
Forum: Developer's Section
Topic: Plugin development philosophy
Replies: 50
Views: 27091

Re: Plugin development philosophy

Impostor wrote: Thu Oct 05, 2023 6:29 pm

I wonder who.

What if the plugin name reported to the DAW consists of both the cutesy name and the functional purpose? For example, like this:

Breathe (High Freq Noise Enhancer)
Patina (Lofi / Vinyl Effect)
Regalia (Stereo Width / HAAS)
Seltzer (Harmonics Exciter)
Tallow (Bass Enhancer)

by Michael Willis
Thu Oct 05, 2023 5:37 pm
Forum: Developer's Section
Topic: Plugin development philosophy
Replies: 50
Views: 27091

Re: Plugin development philosophy

I think we're teetering on the brink of having somebody really upset about cutesy names.

by Michael Willis
Thu Oct 05, 2023 3:09 pm
Forum: Original Scores & Recordings
Topic: Arram Koth
Replies: 5
Views: 1856

Re: Arram Koth

I listened all the way through this yesterday and quite enjoyed it.

by Michael Willis
Thu Oct 05, 2023 1:43 pm
Forum: Developer's Section
Topic: Plugin development philosophy
Replies: 50
Views: 27091

Re: Plugin development philosophy

I have to admit that at least 50% of my motivation for starting this thread is that I want to make an effect plugin called "Tallow". It would have two control sections: Saturated . . . Fat. I imagine the saturation stage mostly just being TAP tube warmth, and then the fatten stage would mo...
by Michael Willis
Thu Oct 05, 2023 3:27 am
Forum: Developer's Section
Topic: Plugin development philosophy
Replies: 50
Views: 27091

Re: Plugin development philosophy

GMaq wrote: Thu Oct 05, 2023 3:22 am

TAP Tubewarmth

Funny thing, I discovered that TAP Tubewarmth is the algorithm that does most of the work in Calf Bass Enhancer. The rest of that calf plugin is just gain, low pass, and high pass.

by Michael Willis
Thu Oct 05, 2023 2:59 am
Forum: Developer's Section
Topic: Plugin development philosophy
Replies: 50
Views: 27091

Re: Plugin development philosophy

Next question: Should dials show numeric values, or should numbers be hidden to encourage "trust your ears"?

by Michael Willis
Wed Oct 04, 2023 6:01 pm
Forum: Developer's Section
Topic: Plugin development philosophy
Replies: 50
Views: 27091

Re: Plugin development philosophy

@GMaq, do you have any opinions about this? As somebody who curates plugins for AVLinux, would it be beneficial to have more "just add magic" plugins? Or are we at a point that Linux has a too-many-plugins problem?

by Michael Willis
Thu Sep 28, 2023 11:02 pm
Forum: Developer's Section
Topic: Plugin development philosophy
Replies: 50
Views: 27091

Re: Plugin development philosophy

The ideal, is that we can combine both into one software plugin these days, allowing for modular synths with full effects and everything saved to a simple patch. :) You can do that with Carla, which allows you to load any combination of plugins and then save them as a preset. Rakarrack is also kind...
by Michael Willis
Thu Sep 28, 2023 4:26 pm
Forum: Developer's Section
Topic: Plugin development philosophy
Replies: 50
Views: 27091

Re: Plugin development philosophy

Largos wrote: Thu Sep 28, 2023 4:24 pm

What kind of male voice anyway?..., barry white, barry gibb :wink:

Barry Manilow

by Michael Willis
Thu Sep 28, 2023 4:16 pm
Forum: Developer's Section
Topic: Plugin development philosophy
Replies: 50
Views: 27091

Re: Plugin development philosophy

Thanks Nils, that's kind of what I want to do. Here are some things that I imagine for a new plugin suite: Multi-stage effects - perform "magic" without forcing people to think too hard about stacking components Nice user interface - some controls to play with, but not so many that it's ov...
by Michael Willis
Thu Sep 28, 2023 3:41 pm
Forum: Developer's Section
Topic: Plugin development philosophy
Replies: 50
Views: 27091

Plugin development philosophy

I've been looking at the implementations of several open source audio plugin suites ( airwindows , bluelab , calf , lsp , and tap ) to see what I can learn about how they do different dsp effects. Some plugins follow a "unix philosophy" of doing just one thing well, which allows a musician...