Hey there,

I want to program a VST wrapper that allows for the genetic breeding of presets for any vst synth or fx, which I can load into a DAW. Any advices?

Cheers

This is a great idea.
I wonder if the JS FX library or other Javascript stuff written for reaper could be good for this purpose. I am no expert but I think there perhaps the inputs for the control parameters could be just treated as generic "inputs" that you send numeric values for control?

I wonder in fact if you could also genetically breed behaviors to write automation or control the faders in Reaper. If they can be controlled via midi and osc it should work, I imagine. Are you using ANN?

looking forward to seeing how this develops!
J

Do you know my patch "Ewolverine"? The functionality is limited on midi for now, but I experimented with a pdvst version already and the results were similar. The only problem was that I couldn't figure out how to make a VST out of a pd patch. I was also thinking of stuff you mentioned. I don't think that's very hard to do, but first I need to convert a patch into a vst with midi and audio inputs as well as outputs. I don't use artificial neural nets. The audio analysis of sampled sounds is based on spectral comparison to a target sample. ANNs are not necessary for such operations. If I'd like to check adapted sound against some special features I want them to provide, I'd surely use ANNs, but that would probably cost me many months or even years of development. I don't think that I have the necessary endurance for that. At least not in pd. Patches would be highly complex and surely I'd myself not be able to overlook it.

@elden is Camomile what you are looking for?

Looks pretty convincing, actually. I need to check it out in more detail. Stay tuned.