KVR Audio

Angel Powerlord · Post by **Angel Powerlord** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:34 am

Hi,

I'm looking for the most simple VST effect ever:

A "mute botton". Nothing else. Should be an insert effect in the audio chain. Press button and mute the audio output.

Or even simpler:
A VST that actually does not output its audio input at all, all the time. An "audio stop". No buttons or parameters.

Both should have an GUI, though, to work in hosts which require VSTs to have a GUI.

Background: Some hosts for live playing of VSTs like Brainspawn Forte do not have dedicated send effect buses. With send/return plug-ins like those from www.solidsoundstudio.net you can nevertheless build complicated effect routings. But at the end of each send chain you need to prevent the audio to go to the sound card, otherwise it would be an insert effect, not a send.

Simple, yet complicated.

Thanks for any suggestions,
Angel

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:35 am

de la Mancha moot

ddummer · Post by **ddummer** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:35 am

Edit: oops... mute not mono...

Optomadic · Post by **Optomadic** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:42 am

How about this?

PM aciddose to get it.

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/privmsg.p ... st&u=50793

Angel Powerlord · Post by **Angel Powerlord** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:42 am

Thanks, nice, I might find different use for this.

But way to complicated. I said I want ONE button or NONE

Edit:
Whoa, you guys are faster than I can read. Thanks Optimadic, PM to aciddose.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:43 am

alternately, look at the Basic Strip plugin on the same site as the Aux Bus plugin you mentioned... voila, a mute button...

Angel Powerlord · Post by **Angel Powerlord** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:46 am

whyterabbyt wrote:alternately, look at the Basic Strip plugin on the same site as the Aux Bus plugin you mentioned... voila, a mute button...

Thanks, already have this in just the very way you suggested. But thats a massive feature overkill for just a mute or audio stop, isn't it?

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:52 am

Angel Powerlord wrote: Thanks, already have this in just the very way you suggested. But thats a massive feature overkill for just a mute or audio stop, isn't it?

does it really matter that much? from your description, your effects setup is preconfigured, with the mutes always on; does it really matter if it could do other stuff?

It'd be 3 minutes to build one for yourself in SynthEdit, btw.

Angel Powerlord · Post by **Angel Powerlord** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:58 am

whyterabbyt wrote: does it really matter that much? from your description, your effects setup is preconfigured, with the mutes always on; does it really matter if it could do other stuff?

It'd be 3 minutes to build one for yourself in SynthEdit, btw.

You are completely right ...

Angel Powerlord · Post by **Angel Powerlord** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:48 pm

OK, done. Took me 2 hours because I never made anything with SynthEdit before. Now I have my own "AudioStop" VST plug-in. Audio in, no audio out. No buttons or parameters. Light on the CPU. Simply a dream

Thanks to all,
Angel

Optomadic · Post by **Optomadic** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 3:46 pm

Please share

.. It works as a VST dummy right?

aciddose · Post by **aciddose** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 4:42 pm

http://xhip.cjb.net/xhipeffects/releases/

mutesoft.dll

Angel Powerlord · Post by **Angel Powerlord** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 6:34 pm

Well, my AudioStop.dll has a ridiculous 1.8 MB size, whereas aciddose' mutesoft.dll has 17kB. That must be the SynthEdit overhead or me being clueless.

Can't share at the moment, our web site is down for maintenance

Midiworks · Post by **Midiworks** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 7:20 pm

Here another one with mute button.
http://www.mediafire.com/?wmxtw1my04g

Have fun !

Angel Powerlord · Post by **Angel Powerlord** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 9:08 pm

Thanks, Midiworks! It was also made with SynthEdit I guess as it also has 1.9 MB

"Mute button" or "audio stop" VST??