It's amazing how those little things add up.
It was nearly finished.
I was tidying up the UI.
Then we realised that a full sample-accurate MIDI implementation would be nice... which takes a while when you have to support VST AND AU AND RTAS.
Then someone pointed out that independent stereo gating would be nice (gate open on one side, closed on the other)... and that took a little while.
Then someone suggested lookahead, and that was too good an idea to ignore... so we did that...
It's a very sexy plugin... to me at least.. because it does actually let you do whatever you want to do... such as using both MIDI and an external sidechain (oh, yeah, we have external sidechains on VST, AU and RTAS... the VST one is with 4in2out and 2in1out versions) at the same time... so you can sidechain the gate off a beat, and play in some extra swung notes, to make it groove. It's fun.
Feature creep? Or making a great plugin? I dunno. We've certainly made you wait for a while, and that's not so great. It would have been nice to finish it a month ago. We stuck in a DirectX version too, just because some people use it. We're considering doing a MAS version (though it may prove more sensible to just wait until DP supports external sidechains on AU).
Still, today, I can announce with great happiness and relief that we have finally gone to beta. The last phase of optimisation is completed, and all the bugs I know about have gone to bug heaven.
I'm hoping that release will follow fairly shortly (but I don't control that... so who knows).
Phewwww.
I'll post more when we get some feedback, and I'll tell you how it's looking :)
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I think 719 would be very valuable to VST GUYS
good to know Dave, very curious about it! :-)
This sounds very interesting and I look forward to see this one as there are not more than a few gate plug-ins out there. And there is no really good one anyway so this is indeed interesting.
good good... i'm sure i'll be sneaking previews onto some obscure corner of the web sometime to see if anyone finds them... ;)
btw, credit where it's due. you can all thank _dada_ on the kvr forum for the lookahead :)
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