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Hello Xenakios!
I was wondering if it is possible to use a Vs-2480 as a control surface for REAPER (x64) with win7. I have used the my Vs-2480 in xp with your wonderful patch however I have upgraded to Win7 64 and I miss having “Real” faders.
Any advise would be most welcome. Thank You in Advance!!
-Jeffrey
Sorry, no idea about that…I did do some work on a control surface plugin for VS but it wasn’t anything that got finished and published by me. You would need a x64 build of the plugin for use with Reaper x64.
Thank you Xenakios for your reply.
How dificult would it be to modify the existing plug to make it a x64 build? would you do it as a paid service? I realy love my vs as a control surface. Thanks again for the responce!
-Jeffrey
Building for x64 shouldn’t be very problematic, but I don’t have the source code that “yhertogh” produced in the end. I only did the initial work for the VS csurf plugin but I wasn’t able to finish it properly, so it was yhertogh who did the final work. I am not sure if yhertogh open sourced the plugin in the end…?
hi,
after starting hourgladd, norton says that is a virus and delete the .exe file !?!?!
cheers
andreas
Norton is notorious for triggering it’s virus warnings for no reason. There was recently this at the Cockos Reaper forum : http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=100569
If more reports about this same behavior appear, I will try to take a look if there’s some Windows API call or so that might be considered “suspicious”. Various versions of HourGlass have been downloaded hundreds of times and this is the first time anyone has reported an antivirus program complaining about it.
Hi – I have just been playing with HourGlass, and it is fantastic… I have been getting all kinds of King Crimson style soundscapes out of it, I am really impressed – Thank you so much for making this!
When I try to enter a number in any of the numeric value entry boxes though, it hangs for a few seconds, and then Norton deletes the .exe saying it has detected a supspicious keystroke capture event with PID:1540. Does this mean anything to you? Could you please have a quick look if you get a moment?
Thanks again for the great program.
Nandy.
Sorry, no idea. I am not globally hooking into the operating system to capture keyboard presses. (Apart from what is obviously necessary for HourGlass to handle keystrokes…) Virustotal’s scan doesn’t detect anything suspicious in the latest .zip file. (I don’t know how reliable Virustotal is though, but I would make a bet it’s way more reliable than Norton.) Like I mentioned in the reply to the commenter above, Norton is well known for triggering alerts for no good reason. I can’t offer any other advice but to get rid of Norton and install Microsoft Security Essentials or antimalware/antivirus app…
Thanks for the quick reply. I right clicked on the .exe and found an option to tell Norton to trust the file, and now it is working perfectly. Thanks again.
Hi! I have a request for “HourGlassPluginScanner.exe”. I’m looking for something like this from years!
I’m a beginner developer, but I don’t know C/C++, just only simple language like lua and js.
I’m writing “VST_Browser” a simple program for indexing and browsing my VSTs, using a local web server (lua, html and,js).
I tried with success:
> HourGlassPluginScanner.exe “d:\vst\vstname.dll”
and exported info appears in : %appdata%\Xenakios\HourGlassPluginScanner.ini
Could you change the exe for let it work as portable?
& Thanks. vespadj
e.g.: if FileExists(“.\\HourGlassPluginScanner.ini”) then use it, else use “%appdata%\Xenakios\HourGlassPluginScanner.ini”
a screenshot of my program “VST_Browser”: http://rawmaterialsoftware.com/download/file.php?id=543
Bye
I could do that (or something else suitable) but you should note the scanner program depends on the Qt Core and Microsoft Visual C++ runtime libraries. (QtCore4.dll, msvcp100.dll, msvcr100.dll).
After a thinking about it , I can use the program just the way it is now, and I can pick file from %appdata%\Xenakios\ . Are you interesting in my project? Do you like I keep you informated when I realise it? Thanks
@vespadj : By the way, you probably shouldn’t rely on my scanner .exe too much for something you publicly distribute. There’s no guarantee it will work for you (and more so for your users) correctly. The program is so simple I could probably open source it so you could fix it as needed (no “secret magics” or tons of work put into it), but as mentioned above, it depends on the Qt framework. If you would want to get rid of that dependency, you would need to rewrite some of the code.
@xenakios: I change way and I already develop my own “vstinfo.exe” using VST.NET framework (http://vstnet.codeplex.com/), writting in c#, it was been easy, because I reuse functions of a sample code.
I export info by Console.WriteLine, so I handle the file on RAM instead of on disk.
I tried to include the ability to timeout in 10 seconds (like HourGlass), but after 5 hours of browsing of solution for C#, I left it
VST.NET Framework also need of it own dll files (just 238kb !) , it’s not a matter.
Thanks for your attention
Hi
how can one render the audio in 48 kHz ad 24 bit please???
thank you