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It's been a while since I posted anything. I should get better at staying on top of that.
I've of course been working on my main projects (and I will maybe post an update on those soon), but I figured I would announce a small update I made to my reverb plugin port VitaliumVerb I talked about in my previous blogpost Porting a Reverb.
It Has a GUI! 🚀
I went ahead and made a quick n' dirty (but still visually pleasing) GUI in the Vizia GUI framework!
Pre-built binaries for Linux, Mac, and Windows can be downloaded from the Releases tab in the GitHub repository!
So why did I choose Vizia and not my own GUI framework that I've been working on? Well for one, my GUI framework is not finished yet 😅, and two, nih-plug has a ready-made, easy-to-use slider widget for Vizia.
While I would prefer knobs and an eq widget like the original Vital synth had, this will do for now. Maybe at some point I will create a fancier GUI in my own GUI framework.
Other Changes
Another small (but breaking) change I made is that the stereo width parameter now ranges from 0.0% to 200.0% instead of -100% to 100% like a stereo width parameter should. This should make it clearer what the parameter does.
Addendum
Someone was asking what the "minor improvements and optimizations added" were as mentioned in the readme, and I realized I forgot to summarize this in my previous blogpost.
Essentially it's just these three things:
- A stereo width parameter was added to the wet signal.
- Parameter curves were tweaked to focus better on the sweet spots (and because I wanted to use nih-plug's built-in parameter curves as much as possible).
- Runtime-evaluated constants like filter coefficients, gain amplitudes, chorus phase increments, and allpass matrices are only recalculated when their respective parameters have been changed (the original recalculated these every process cycle).