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Hello!

I am currently working on a project called "ReACTor?!". It's a VST plugin, which makes really cool 8-bit sounds.
It is coded in PureBasic and soon it will reach the whole world

I have recently made 2 demo mp3's in FL Studio for free download:
- ReACTor_Demo1.mp3 (215Kb)
- ReACTor_Demo2.mp3 (752Kb)

If this project interests many users, I maybe will release my VST when it's done.
Now, I am working on the technical part of the plugin. The GUI part can wait a bit.

Here's a screenshot of the current GUI for it (I call it "CloudACTor"):



Please drop a comment and give me some tips on how to improve the GUI or the music.
I appreciate everyone who is interested in this project.

Thanks to everyone in this forum!
Special Thanks goes to:
- Fred, and the rest of the PB-Team
- thefool <- Really special thanks
- srod
- Sparkie
- Trond
- traumatic
For helping me making coding in PureBasic fun!

Respect!

THanks traumatic, oh yes, forgot to add you to the special thanks list

Sounds cool It has a quite special sound. 8-bit yes, but it has some sort of ambient/cloudish tone too!

Very nice

I knew you will like it man! THis is my biggest project so far, I hope you guys enjoy the music. I know I suck in the GUI, but I did it in MSPaint in about 30 minutes. :roll:

> 8-bit yes, but it has some sort of ambient/cloudish tone too!
THat is one of the things I worked really hard on to make it better than the other ones lurking in the net

josku_x wrote:THanks traumatic, oh yes, forgot to add you to the special thanks list

Oh But what did I do? Anyway, let me in

I just think it's awesome to have things like VSTis done in PB.
This is like saying: "Look ma, no boundaries!"

Ok, about the GUI:

What are the four knobs there for? I suppose you're controlling the
envelope with them? If so, I'd suggest to put 'ADSR' beneath them.
Beside that I wouldn't worry to much, I mean...

...have you seen the first incarnations of the Voxengo series of plugins?
The GUIs sucked big time but Aleksey did a wonderful programming job
right from the beginning. Just look at where he's now (and the GUIs got
better and better as well)!

The knobs and buttons looks cool!
You maybe want to redraw the edge or so.

@Traumatic: I definently agree. Its cool that one can make music, but isnt it cool if one can make the music with home-brewn VST's? i know its not opensource, but now i know it can be done!

great work! i have tried to generate some small samples in realtime too and its a very intereted topic... i like stuff like generating anything in realtime

sadly its not possible to create your own "girlfriend" but maybe the future (in 50 or 100 years) this will be changed ^^

It isn't hard to make VST's in PB (well, took me a whole month ). I did very much research on VST dll's, how they work, operate Digital Singal Processing and Fast Fourier Transforms and so on. I started to do it from scratch, I did not for example convert a VB source or so on.

Creating the plugin was easy, but the unique sound that makes your plugin a real plugin took me many hours and evenings, sometimes even nights!

> sadly its not possible to create your own "girlfriend" but maybe the future (in 50 or 100 years) this will be changed ^^

I dreamed last night of creating a girlfriend, 'cause my real one left me weeks ago.. who cares? I married PureBasic! (I can tell, it was slightly hot last night )

muuuaarrrhhhhhh

josku_x wrote:I dreamed last night of creating a girlfriend, 'cause my real one left me weeks ago.. who cares? I married PureBasic! (I can tell, it was slightly hot last night )

Oops! That's not logical? How can I dream the same time when I'm playing with PB??

Well, life goes on!

WOW! very cool. Will you be posting any source code on how to make a vst? Keep up the awesome work.

Very nice

Keep up the good work

THanks to all the comments!

@J. Baker: I doubt it that I can provide a guide on how to make your won VST as my code is not optimized and it's hard to understand. So providing a guide would be easy even if the source code is more than 1000 lines, but many people will ask me: "What is this for?" "Where is the Digital Signal Processor?" "I can't find the part where the FFT is.". And I just don't have time to answer all that and so. But I can, if you guys want, to provide a library with "VST gadgets". The VST Gadgets library would include making a knob, a slider and possibly other stuff if you guys want.

Just request the gadgets and I can see what I can do for you.