Nthdotcpp
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Joined: 23 Nov 2009
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| What are VST plugins?(complete and utter beginner) |
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well tangerine from my experience using a few VST synth & effects plugins
i can ell you with utmost certainty that there are some synths out there with
some very nice timbral soundings. i've been producing various kinds of music for over 10 years and i've built a great many work of musical art. and recently i've gotten into using code::blocks and had found the VST SDK 2.4 and was muddling around with it earlier today. i was able to compile the basic 2 oscillator synth, gain & delay plugin from the sample source files package. i'm actually trying to look around to see if i could find a way to enhance my knowledge on build more complex VST synths,.. more complex than that basic example from the SDK that is. if you get the chance to check out these links:
www.kvraudio.com
<---- digital music/VST community forums
www.hitsquad.com
<---- good place that sells various tools
www.cycling74.com
<----- makers of max/msp
^^ VST authoring software.....
www.sonicspot.com
<---- online 3rd party software vendor
they are websites that show VST synth & effect plugins and some excellent products you can buy that will give you a firm understanding and virtual analogue feel once you load them into your digital sequencer.
VST plugins are extensible tools that you'd use to build music with. whether you use fruityloops,cubase sx,logic platinum audio or any other sequencer like that, these synths are imported or loadable into sequencers like that and can be used readily/immediately. these VST synths which are virtual synthesizer tools that can be equipped internally with quite a few elements such as onboard filters like flanger/chorus/ring modulation/phase vocoding/etc.... and so on. however there are VST effect plugins which you can use to apply it as a loadable filter (like flanger/chorus/MT delay/ring modulation/phase vocoding/etc) to a VST synth and furtherly enhance how the synth creates its tones musically. i've built VST plugins with max/msp & synth edit and have done some dx8 audio programming in classic vb6. its been a long road and i know i still have much more to learn now that i'm getting into C/C++ ,... and i'm looking into some various environments (bloodshed's Dev c++, code::blocks, and a few other freeware IDEs) i can say this much for C/C++, by looking at some of the *.CPP & *.H files ,... that source code is way more complex than vb6 will ever be. i hope that could clear some uncertainty up or some/if not most...... |
Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:09 am |
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