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Host Development / This forum will be closing at the end of February 2018

« on: January 31, 2018, 15:57:55 »

I regret to announce that we will be declaring surrender in the war on spam registrations, and closing this forum permanently at the end of February 2018.

The forum content will be retained in the form of a static mirror of the current site, with a note on each page to warn readers that it is purely static content and that it is no longer possible to register, log in, or post.

Although the forum does not get a huge amount of traffic, we will need to seek some alternative ways to ask questions and get feedback on Vamp plugin development and the use of Sonic Visualiser. If you have any thoughts or preferences about good ways to handle this, please drop me an email at c.cannam (at) qmul.ac.uk.

Thanks,

Chris

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Plugin Development / This forum will be closing at the end of February 2018

« on: January 31, 2018, 15:57:31 »

I regret to announce that we will be declaring surrender in the war on spam registrations, and closing this forum permanently at the end of February 2018.

The forum content will be retained in the form of a static mirror of the current site, with a note on each page to warn readers that it is purely static content and that it is no longer possible to register, log in, or post.

Although the forum does not get a huge amount of traffic, we will need to seek some alternative ways to ask questions and get feedback on Vamp plugin development and the use of Sonic Visualiser. If you have any thoughts or preferences about good ways to handle this, please drop me an email at c.cannam (at) qmul.ac.uk.

Thanks,

Chris

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Host Forum: Sonic Visualiser / This forum will be closing at the end of February 2018

« on: January 31, 2018, 15:56:58 »

I regret to announce that we will be declaring surrender in the war on spam registrations, and closing this forum permanently at the end of February 2018.

The forum content will be retained in the form of a static mirror of the current site, with a note on each page to warn readers that it is purely static content and that it is no longer possible to register, log in, or post.

Although the forum does not get a huge amount of traffic, we will need to seek some alternative ways to ask questions and get feedback on Vamp plugin development and the use of Sonic Visualiser. If you have any thoughts or preferences about good ways to handle this, please drop me an email at c.cannam (at) qmul.ac.uk.

Thanks,

Chris

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Getting and Using Vamp Plugins / This forum will be closing at the end of February 2018

« on: January 31, 2018, 15:56:30 »

I regret to announce that we will be declaring surrender in the war on spam registrations, and closing this forum permanently at the end of February 2018.

The forum content will be retained in the form of a static mirror of the current site, with a note on each page to warn readers that it is purely static content and that it is no longer possible to register, log in, or post.

Although the forum does not get a huge amount of traffic, we will need to seek some alternative ways to ask questions and get feedback on Vamp plugin development and the use of Sonic Visualiser. If you have any thoughts or preferences about good ways to handle this, please drop me an email at c.cannam (at) qmul.ac.uk.

Thanks,

Chris

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Plugin and Host Announcements / This forum will be closing at the end of February 2018

« on: January 31, 2018, 15:55:19 »

I regret to announce that we will be declaring surrender in the war on spam registrations, and closing this forum permanently at the end of February 2018.

The forum content will be retained in the form of a static mirror of the current site, with a note on each page to warn readers that it is purely static content and that it is no longer possible to register, log in, or post.

Although the forum does not get a huge amount of traffic, we will need to seek some alternative ways to ask questions and get feedback on Vamp plugin development and the use of Sonic Visualiser. If you have any thoughts or preferences about good ways to handle this, please drop me an email at c.cannam (at) qmul.ac.uk.

Thanks,

Chris

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Host Forum: Sonic Visualiser / Re: Missing time values at the top of the pane

« on: January 31, 2018, 15:47:48 »

For my part, I couldn't really think of anything to suggest I'm afraid.

I suppose the one thing worth suggesting (except that you did say you'd tried the menu functions already) might be to try the three functions on the View menu labelled "Show No Overlays", "Show Minimal Overlays", and "Show All Overlays". These are bound to the 0, 9, and 8 keys and they control how much detail is shown in the scale and other labels on the main view.

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Getting and Using Vamp Plugins / Re: 64-bit availability

« on: January 31, 2018, 15:45:03 »

Not yet I'm afraid. But it should absolutely be possible to use the 32-bit versions of these plugins with the 64-bit Sonic Visualiser for Windows. If their DLL files are installed in

Code: [Select]

C:\Program Files (x86)\Vamp Plugins
then the 64-bit SV should find them, using a 32-bit helper application that is packaged with it.

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Host Forum: Sonic Visualiser / Re: Sonic Visualiser 3.0 released!

« on: March 07, 2017, 14:33:01 »

And predictably enough, within a week a 3.0.1 is necessary!

Downloads from the usual place: http://sonicvisualiser.org/download.html

The update fixes two crashes on Windows and updates the MIDI device driver layer on all platforms.


Chris

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Plugin Development / Vamp Plugin SDK v2.7 available!

« on: March 03, 2017, 11:47:18 »

Version 2.6 of the Vamp plugin SDK is now available.

   http://www.vamp-plugins.org/

Vamp is a plugin API for audio analysis and feature extraction plugins written in C or C++.  Its SDK features an easy-to-use set of C++ classes for plugin and host developers, a reference host implementation, example plugins, and documentation.  It is supported across Linux, OS/X, and Windows.

A documentation guide to writing plugins using the Vamp SDK can be found at http://www.vamp-plugins.org/guide.pdf.

Version 2.7 is a bugfix and minor enhancement release. For more details, see the changelog at

http://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/vamp-plugin-sdk/repository/entry/CHANGELOG


Chris

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Host Forum: Sonic Visualiser / Sonic Visualiser 3.0 released!

« on: March 03, 2017, 11:45:05 »

Sonic Visualiser 3.0 is out!

What's new in this release: http://sonicvisualiser.org/new-in-v3.html
Downloads: http://sonicvisualiser.org/download.html


Chris

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Host Forum: Sonic Visualiser / Re: Help test the first Sonic Visualiser v3.0 beta

« on: February 23, 2017, 14:32:04 »

And now, a fourth: https://thebreakfastpost.com/2017/02/23/yes-theres-a-fourth-beta-of-sonic-visualiser-v3-0-now/

Files still at https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/sonic-visualiser/files


Chris

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Host Forum: Sonic Visualiser / Re: Help test the first Sonic Visualiser v3.0 beta

« on: February 09, 2017, 09:09:13 »

And a third beta! See https://thebreakfastpost.com/2017/02/09/a-third-beta-of-sonic-visualiser-v3-0/

Files here again: https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/sonic-visualiser/files


Chris

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Getting and Using Vamp Plugins / Re: Vamp plugins not loading in Audacity

« on: January 19, 2017, 10:21:32 »

Hi there -- I believe this plugin doesn't show up because Audacity has no way to display any of its outputs. Audacity only shows those plugins that have at least one output that can be displayed on a label track -- it can't display grid output from Vamp plugins, and all of the CQ outputs are grids.

That is the way it used to work anyway, I haven't checked the code very recently.

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Getting and Using Vamp Plugins / Re: Need 64-bit version of qm-vamp-plugins.dll for Windows

« on: January 17, 2017, 09:46:20 »

It's true that there has never been a 64-bit Windows build of the QM Vamp Plugins. Making one is a priority for us once SV v3.0 is out.

There are various reasons why few Vamp plugins are available in 64-bit builds for Windows.

The proximate reason is that none of the most widely-used Vamp hosts (Sonic Visualiser, Sonic Annotator, Audacity) exists in a 64-bit Windows version. Since 32-bit hosts can't load 64-bit plugins, there's no pressing reason to produce 64-bit plugins. This will change with Sonic Visualiser v3.0, which for the first time will have a 64-bit Windows build, as well as an adapter that allows it to load 32-bit plugins (out-of-process). So SV v3.0 can continue to use the 32-bit Windows plugins, but also provides more of an incentive to produce 64-bit ones.

In a way this can be attributed to Microsoft's success at providing excellent 32-bit compatibility in 64-bit Windows. On both Linux and OSX we have already had to face the issue of requiring all existing plugins to be rebuilt in 64-bit versions because the underlying platform standard changed. This has never been forced on anyone in the Windows world.

Finally there are various practical reasons, such as that many of the 32-bit Windows plugin builds have been produced using the MinGW compiler which until recently was not readily available in a stable 64-bit version. (I think until fairly recently the 64-bit Visual C++ compiler wasn't included in the free version of Visual Studio either?) So it's not just a question of using the same native platform compiler on the newer platform and getting a new build for the new architecture, as it has been on both Linux and OSX.

The QM plugin set is relatively tricky to rebuild as well, because of its use of LAPACK and BLAS.

Anyway, that's the explanation -- the short answer is that a 64-bit version is "planned soon".


Chris

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Host Forum: Sonic Visualiser / Re: Help test the first Sonic Visualiser v3.0 beta

« on: January 17, 2017, 09:33:25 »

There's a second beta up there now. You can see what's changed here: https://thebreakfastpost.com/2017/01/17/a-second-beta-of-sonic-visualiser-v3-0/

Files in the same place: https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/sonic-visualiser/files


Chris