• Spacechild1

    Hi everyone,

    I have just released [vstplugin~] v0.6.0! Binaries are available on Deken (search for "vstplugin~").

    The most important new feature is support for multichannel signals: a single input or output signal can now contain multiple channels. This is particularly handy for spatialization plugins with many channels, such as higher-order ambisonics. Not only does it save you from drawing lots of patch cords, it also allows you to change the channel count dynamically! For example, you can now freely change the ambisonics order without rewriting your patch.

    IMPORTANT: previous versions would hide certain (non-automatable) parameters in VST3 plugins. This has been fixed, but as a consequence, parameter indices might have changed. [vstplugin~] prints a warning for every plugin that is affected by this change!

    Here is the full changelog: https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/-/releases/v0.6.0

    Please report any issues at https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/-/issues

    Have fun!

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  • Spacechild1

    Hi,

    here's a pre-release for [vstplugin~] v0.6 - an external for running VST2 and VST3 plugins inside Pd.

    Binaries for all platforms are available on Deken (search for "vstplugin~").

    The most important new feature is multichannel support (requires at least Pd 0.54)!

    This is particularly handy for spatialization plugins with many channels. For example, a single signal may now contain a full 64-channel ambisonics bus. With the IEM plugins (https://plugins.iem.at/) you can even change the channel count dynamically and the plugins will automatically adjust the ambisonics order.

    NOTE: previous versions would hide certain (non-automatable) parameters in VST3 plugins. This has been fixed, but as a consequence parameter indexes might have changed. [vstplugin~] prints a warning for every plugin that is affected by this change!

    Here is the full changelog: https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/-/releases/v0.6-test1

    As always, please test and report any issues to https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/-/issues.

    Christof

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  • Spacechild1

    I don't understand why [send~] needs the channel count specified while other audio objects just "know"... that seems strange.

    The reason is that a matching [receive~] might be scheduled before the [send~]. At this point, the [send~]'s "dsp" method wouldn't have been called yet, but [receive~] already needs to know the channel count. Note that you can still change the channel count dynamically with the "channels" message.

    As a side note: with [throw~] and [catch~] the relationship is reversed: [throw~] does not require a channel count, but [catch~] does.

    There are still bugs in multichannel though.

    What about reporting them?

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  • Spacechild1

    There's an experimental 64-bit version of Pd

    This is really orthogonal to 64-bit OSC timetags. This version just uses 64-bit floats as the underlying type for float atoms and samples. It does not magically implement the missing OSC typetags. Also, let's please call this the "double-precision" version, as "64-bit" typically refers to the CPU architecture.

    Actually, there is no reason why Pd's [oscformat] and [oscparse] could not support the h (= int64) and d (= float64) typetags for sending/parsing OSC message. Of course, single-precision Pd would need to round the values down to 32-bit floats, but double-precision Pd could keep the precision (at least for 64-bit floats; 64-bit integers may still lose some lower bits when converted to 64-bit float atoms).

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  • Spacechild1

    TL;DR:

    "Blocksize": hardware buffer size
    "Delay": extra latency

    Then, in the Pd audiosettings, you set the "Delay (msecs)". This sets the size of the buffer between Pd and the soundcard.

    This is not true. (I don't blame anyone for making this mistake, as this is not obvious unless you know the Pd internals.)

    By default, Pd uses the so-called "polling scheduler". The message system and DSP run in a dedicated thread which communicates with the actual audio callback via a (lock-free) ring buffer. "Delay" effectively controls the size of that buffer. It adds extra latency on top of the hardware buffer size.

    The actual hardware buffer size is always controlled by the - confusingly named - "Blocksize" parameter. (Pd's internal blocksize is fixed at 64 samples.)


    Alternatively, Pd may use the so-called "callback scheduler", which is enabled by the "Callbacks" option in the audio settings. In this case, the message system and DSP run directly in the audio callback and latency is only affected by "Blocksize". (This option has disappeared in Pd 0.54, but will likely reappear in the future after some scheduler bugfixes have been applied. See https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/1756.)


    Tip: If you run Pd with the default "polling scheduler", then you should set "Blocksize" as low as possible and control latency with the "Delay", as it offers finer granularity.

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  • Spacechild1

    @60hz The next version will have macOS ARM binaries. In the meantime, you can use this snapshot from the develop branch: https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/-/jobs/55565/artifacts/download?file_type=archive

    (If the link stops working, go to https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/-/pipelines and download the "package" artifact from the latest "develop" pipeline.)

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  • Spacechild1

    Hi,

    In the Changelog of vstplugin~ v0.5.4 it says ARM compilation is fixed though.

    I think this refers to https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/-/commit/ec1bb344512f1de6819cd2ca06fbfde793393326.

    However, ARM support on Linux has been fixed only recently (https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/-/commit/8cbdb1a971e2f4ac48953b9bc7be6370d42ea50f) and not merged into master yet.

    Try the latest develop branch, people have successfully built it on RPIs.

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  • Spacechild1

    @seb-harmonik.ar said:

    @Obineg all of pd vanilla runs on 1 thread (well, the 'core' non-wish process anyways)
    Message processing is simply interspersed w/ audio processing.

    Almost. Pd does use a single thread for DSP and message processing, but this is not the same as the audio callback (unless "use callbacks" is enabled), so you have (at least) two threads.

    Side note: In Pd, the audio callback does almost no work; it just reads/writes samples from/to a ringbuffer and returns. Pd's main thread waits on the ringbuffer (see sys_send_dacs), so it is indirectly (asynchronously) driven by the audio callback.

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  • Spacechild1

    I've just put the vstplugin folder into the /extras folder

    If by "vstplugin folder" you mean the source code, then this certainly doesn't work.

    I have no experience with compiling, so was hoping to avoid that

    Well, you definitely need binaries. But there is a way to avoid compiling from source: use one of the pre-built binaries ;-) https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/-/releases

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  • Spacechild1

    Hi!

    I was trying to get this to work in Purr Data, but don't seem to have had any luck.

    "It does not work" is not all too helpful for an error report ;-) Can you give more details?

    Also, please consider opening a ticket at https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/-/issues.

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