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Hey guys,
I need couple of guys to help me testing a new synthesizer I put together.
In general, I want to know that everything works/compiles nicely.

few notes:
- I'm planning to release it in couple of days
- It includes sources so you need to have visual studio installed
- The synth is based on FM8
- Renoise's .xrns files can be converted to executables

If you're interested just email:
johnd.demoscene.at.gmail.com

Thanks guys!

JohnD: you'll need to supply a working stand-alone VSTi for anyone to come forward to help you test it. You're asking people to spend their time -- the least you can do is spend yours :)

hi,

I, as one of the most famous renoisers,, stout adorer and FM fetichist, say "send me your files".
my name is kaneel at gmail dot fucking com in ya face.

Is it targeted at a dead category?

stout beer... or synthesiszers?

Guys, I have been working on this for some time now, be nice.
NFO File

Last time I checked (clean-room) reverse engineering was legal.

Joghurt, you might be right, I rather not take that risk.

I'm drunk tonight (:D), let's see that all tomorrow

Well, assuming it was illegal, do you really think adding a disclaimer "THIS IS TEH ILLEGAL SHITZ!!!1111 DON'T USE" will somehow give you immunity?

I havent received anything in my inbox.

JohnD: Knl's a top chap and a man of his word. Go forth and spread your wares of controversy.

about what gloom said, is there any good (or at least adequate) documentation on how to make one?

msqrt: by "make one" you mean compiling it?

I'll gladly give it a test. My email is raizor (at) gmail.com

thank you. email is on the way.

I'm in. jake(at)outracks.com

This sounds really interesting! I was working on my on FM-synth too but this is couple order of magnitudes cooler :) If I understood the NFO file correctly, one has to have FM8 VSTi installed for this to be usable? Sounds pretty limiting to me.

cce, thanks for the feedback! Maybe we should combine the synthesizers and create the ultimate FM synth :)

About the needing for FM8 to be installed, well, you're right you need it installed. As explained in the NFO, the FM8 VSTi is used for two things: it's instrument library and the user Interface.

If I was to eliminate the need for it to be installed, I will need to provide an alternative for both.
The instrument library is simple, I could just "steal" instrument files and include them in the library, nothing complicated (legally maybe).
Regarding the user interface, I have chosen to invest my development time in audio rather than user interface. But this can be change in the future (maybe).

So, what is he purpose of your synth if you have to have FM8 installed?

NFO should probably be more clear about it:
FM8 is needed only for the composing stage, the "production" sound engine is totally stand alone and takes about 5 kb.

you could use synthedit/synthmaker to profile the gui for the VST?

The NFO mentions you decided to release the source. As this is past tense, where is the source URL?

The word 'decide' was in past tence, not the word 'release'!

And JohnD, I meant more generally, how does one program a vsti? I've tried googling around the subject but never found anything useful.

Msqrt, you need the Steinberg VST SDK, which you can download for free, once you register. If you want to make a VSTi with a gui you also need a gui library, such as VSTGUI or JUCE. Or, if you don't have enough to do already, you can roll your own.

The VST SDK has some trivial examples to try out.