falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com
Is your PC powerful enough to run this Cardinal patch?
https://cardinal.kx.studio/?patchstorage=wasm-house-loop
(after loading the page click on the "run" button on the top-left-most plugin, named clocked)
This was shared to me by someone else, my PC is unable to render it without glitches 😂
What about yours, can your PC handle it?
For those following the cardinal web saga, I deleted the old files on my personal domain.
Instead you can now use https://cardinal.kx.studio/ for Cardinal in the web shenanigans.
All 922 modules are in! 🚀 🚀 🚀
I keep writing about it, not sure if annoying or cool...
Anyhow, file dialogs for importing and exporting patches, samples etc works on the the Cardinal web thingy now.
Can upload mp3 files and play them. Previously loaded files are kept in memory, so they appear on the list.
Neat 📸
Cardinal weby web thing now better, loads modules without tripping. 🚀
https://falktx.com/data/wasm/CardinalSynth.html
Added the missing ValleyAudio and ChowDSP that failed to build before.
And there is file open and save, though you need to save first before you can open. Dont ask...
Maybe later with WebMIDI this can be even more useful. Maybe touch events too, why not.
For now I am happy with the results. Great progress in just a few days, something that was mostly for trying out and testing. But works so well!
Updated Cardinal web thingy again, now with 899 modules. 😂
https://falktx.com/data/wasm/CardinalSynth.html
I am actually amazed this works as well as it does.
I skipped ChowDSP and ValleyAudio, everything else just built as-is without changes.
Made some changes to the page loading layout too, so it resizes with the window now.
There is still a "crash" when adding modules, but you can click away (outside the module browser dialog) to close it, and the module will be on the Rack.
Who wants a new scope?
For those in the know, it is a sassy one yes 😅
The new fundamental panels are all done!
More details at https://github.com/CardinalModules/Fundamental
This will be part of Cardinal 22.05, going to be a great one!
Recently been doing an audio-to-cv-pitch plugin, based on previous work by a coworker.
The result is this little LV2 plugin, can be seen at https://github.com/DISTRHO/PitchTrackingSeries
Additionally, because this is CV, added it in Cardinal just now too.
Scope shows it is able to follow the frequency change of an oscillator through an LFO.
Neat
VCV Rack Fundamental modules are coming to Cardinal!
New panels contributed by a user on GitHub.
The bulk of the work for the implementation is done, now it is just a few missing custom widgets needed and then some polish (making sure everything is consistent in terms of position, size, style, etc)
The next 22.05 is going to be a very fine release. ✨
Just got LV2 plugins working inside Cubase and FL Studio.
This feels sooo wrong haha 😂
Resizing doesn't seem to work on Cubase, don't know why, but audio does which is the important part.
Still early days, but finally got some sound out, even if choppy and unstable.
One day my full suite of tools will run on Haiku, we are not there yet, but we are one step closer.
Go Haiku! 🚀
With HaikuOS Xlibe compat thing we can use some stock X11 code directly in Haiku, nice!
glx doesn't work yet, but cairo stuff does.
Slowly we get a few audio plugin GUIs to work 🚀 🚀 🚀
Perks of using mono-spaced in a text editor/field: you can make art 🦉 🐈
What about a video player in your modular Rack?
Actually, this is me testing embedding external stuff into Cardinal, MPV just provides a great testcase for it. Plus it ends up being a little bit useful, so win-win.
One more done, only MIDI-Map and MIDI-Gate to go, and the replacement of Rack core modules in Cardinal will be complete.
We are almost at the point where all license stuff is 100% clean, an a kinda "RC" status can de declared.
Soon soon.
Interesting that we can keep existing background by setting OpenGL clear color as full transparency.
Result is quite cool, even if for a toy, but somehow looks good and professional (to me at least anyway).
In order to avoid any potential issues I removed the "even a little slightly problematic" modules from Cardinal temporarily, so any new patches done with it now are safe to use from now on (so no modules-were-removed surprises possible)
Meanwhile the core modules, due to VCV branding and CC-ND restriction, are being slowly replaced by Cardinal counterparts.
Still WIP and yeah they look boring, but should be good enough for a first release. Getting things moving is the first step.
VST3 handling in hosts continues to amaze me.
Seems FLStudio doesn't support VST3 plugins without custom GUI. The GUI ends up fully empty [pic1]
That arrow down is not to show/hide the GUI, but to access some options. some trickery then allows to change parameters on the sidebar panel. [pic2]
[pic3] shows how it is supposed to look like, using VST2 format.
Have we reach the point where nobody cares about plugins without GUIs, so much they wont even implement support for it? wow
Cardinal inside Cardinal inside Cardinal inside Cardinal.
How many levels deep is that? Yes.
