MDrummer and host communication

[MixFix]

how to import drum names from MDrummer



into FL Studio




...with drum icons

[MeldaProduction]

Well, you'll have to ask IL about that I'm afraid, I don't think it will be possible though. Anyways we are using GM standard, so if FL has any kind of editor like that, it will be compatible.

[NTO]

FWIW
IL says they will display the note labels, if the vst 'published' them. (Think that referred to the calls they use to load the vst - can't find the comment in their forum history today )

In addition:
A midi out set to channel 10 will have GM drum names for key labels.
(It auto loads a text file you could customize.
For FL20+ location:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Image-Line\FL Studio 20\Plugins\Fruity\Generators\MIDI Out\Data\GM Drums.txt)

If you choose to use the free midi out alternative by Blake Robinson (available in the Looptalk forum - Free Articulate Plugin - Expression / Keyswitch Mapping) you can edit the key labels.

[MixFix]

Thank you so much!

if the vst 'published' them.

Mean VST standart already provide way so plugin can send note labels(icons?) to host, or it will be available on VST4?

[NTO]

Not a host/vst programmer, but I see (what I think are) the hooks for that ability in the vst 2 spec.

[MixFix]

on IL forum https://forum.image-line.com/viewtopic.php?t=161190 NTO wrote it is

[MixFix]

vst 2 (1999) is outdated.. vst 2 celebrated 20 years!

[NTO]

can't find the comment in their forum history today

Certainly not looking to quote myself, but since it's a public forum can't be prevented.
Context/comment questioned.


EDIT:
Still haven't found the exact one, and won't post privileged communication, but in example
2012 (Pretty heated discussion about various VST makers who do/don't - follow Steevm link in the thread shown by MixFix above)

Took out the developer quotes - doesn't feel proper. Better left only in context of the above.

[MixFix]

pray for plugins who publish note names

[MixFix]

and hosts who import icons

[MixFix]

It works perfectly well in VST 2 as VST 3,
yeah Xpansion Geist publishes its pad names and midi info. https://forum.image-line.com/viewtopic. ... 00&t=68341


... Geist publishes not only pads but patterns also

[MixFix]

yeah MDrummer emulates real drummer, Vojtech made Marvel , just ppl like me sometimes put another snare

[frizzbee]

...

hope you get good money to bump all these threads with multiple of your posts in a row...

[MixFix]

Hi Vojtech!
just a few copy -pasting:
....VST2 effGetMidiKeyName maps the "index" VstInt32 var (first value carrier after opcode) to MIDI channel. In the standard SDK, this is dispatched to the plug-in method getMidiKeyName(channel, key). ...

Schema - Renaming notes/keys in Piano Roll - wrote "Well that was easy. -
public override bool GetMidiKeyName(Jacobi.Vst.Core.VstMidiKeyName midiKeyName, int channel)
{
if (p.NoteMap.Contains((byte)midiKeyName.CurrentKeyNumber))
{
midiKeyName.Name = p.NoteMap[(byte)midiKeyName.CurrentKeyNumber].KeyName;
}
else
{
midiKeyName.Name = "Note Map #" + midiKeyName.CurrentKeyNumber; // Or could return false here to use the default note name
}
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and srry idk but there is also some articulation CC keyswitch
https://www.steinberg.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=92468

[MeldaProduction]

Hmmm, interesting!