GrowlyDirtyTeaserPleaser
By RajaTheResidentAlien on December 18, 2022 10:01 pm
I finished my norns app, but now i'm at that weird moment where i don't use it much yet: because i'm working on documentation so others can use it(and also have to test... things making me nervous).
Anyways, at least it's coming along. So this week, i have to upload a bit of a failure which has nothing to do with that norns-work:
This week, I also played around with 'RNBO' (Cycling74's newer product/add-on for Max that outputs to commercial frameworks, etc.), and created a vst-plugin. just wanted to test out how much i can get away with on the free version. It's difficult. I think i'd like to keep learning C++ on my own, not take the quick-route via RNBO just yet(maybe someday i'll purchase RNBO as a learning tool to compare my own C++ code with, but for now, it doesn't make sense for me). Still, i feel like mentioning here: it's impressive you can export VST/AU-plugins now with what you make in Max(as long as you don't save, you can even do it entirely for free).
Even though my FFT-vst-thingie here is broken(just too bassy, and there's a slight distorted growl i didn't intend probably from the overblown bass), i made several different versions of it, put it on several tracks in Renoise, automated its parameters(mostly the pitch of the internal oscillator), and then pumped various drum loops i had made long ago, through it. Then i took an older recording of a live-show i did with someone else's FFT max-externals(Eric Lyon has a collection of objects called 'FFTease' which i used to use extensively, this is what got me into FFT in the first place sometime around 2011... this is the morphy sound that is much clearer happening near the end and finishes off the entire track... you can really tell the difference between that clean FFT processing at the end of Eric Lyon's and my shitty broken-ass vst~ that pumps overblown bass through much of the beginning, hahaha).
In any case, i feel like it was a good effort: you win some, you lose some, but sometimes if you keep trying, you don't really lose, you just wander off into space for awhile, a very bass-heavy, growly, dirty space 
Thanks for listening! 
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