New FREE MFX Plugins at TenCrazy.com

I haven't been keeping up with telling you folks about my latest releases, due to my day job load. Here are some toys!

** MFX Program Bump
Drago wrote to me asking if I could solve a problem for all those users out there without "Patch Change +/-" buttons on their controller keyboards (like his M-Audio Radium 61) for, as he put it, "what makes 'sound browsing' fast and easy." Y'know, that's a pretty good idea, one that I can use myself! So how 'bout we map some of the MIDI notes on your keyboard to these functions?

** MFX Autothrob
John Cain wrote to me asking if I could do an MFX that would give a drum-roll like functionality, as found on MPC units and drum machines of yore. Seeing as how this is a potentially dodgy proposition in SONAR as a real-time plug (thanks to an internal clock pulse that's far too long to be usable), I proposed that I could do something to this effect as a track insert effect. Moreover, I figured "why not allow the user to set any time interval to be usable on basslines and such?" Why not indeed!

Get 'em here!

Have fun,
- m

I would like to see that drum thing also

Well have fun with 'em!

- m

Wow, this thread is 9+ years old! :)
 
Anyway, I would guess that your problem is that you are using a 64-bit version of SONAR, and my old plugins are currently 32-bit only.
 
I've tried to get into contact with Cakewalk about getting a MFX SDK for 64-bit, or at least an example project that shows how they've done it themselves, but they have never responded to me in email of on the forums. :(
 
If anyone could help get work to Cakewalk developers that this would help us out, I would appreciate it.
 
Thanks,
- m
 
 

Hrm, if it says it registered with success, then maybe it's just in a place where you're not expecting it...
 
The plugin can show up either as simply the plugin name itself, *or* if you have several of my plugins, it will show as a separate 'TenCrazy.com' directory under the 'MIDI Fx...' menu.
 
Otherwise, also check the Cakewalk Plugin Manager under 'Tools'. Select the category for 'MIDI Effects (MFX)' and make sure 'TenCrazy.com CC Map' is under the Registered Plug-ins list.
 
- m

Excellent! Enjoy! :)
 
- m

Ah, thanks! It does seem that their contact methods are currently broken (for other devs as well, see: http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=2737740), and I haven't been in the beta program for years, so anyone who can get the word to someone on the inside would be greatly appreciated.
 
Cheers,
- m

FYI - I submitted a feature request, and a problem report and also sent an email to Technical Support. I will report back here when I hear anything. Must be very frustrating as a developer to hit a wall like this. 
Features like MFX (and CAL) are under-supported and it would be awesome if Cake would put in place the necessary support resources to stay on top of each of their features - (the infamous Staff-View also falls into this category.)
(I have very selfish reasons for this - I would love to be able to use some of Markleford's TenCrazy MFX effects that used to work so well in 32 bit versions of SONAR.)
As a minimum, I think a bit-bridge-esque wrapper for 32 bit MFX is needed. Ideal would be both a wrapper and a proper SDK so that 3rd party developers can develop 64 bit MFX for SONAR. 
I am hopeful that other SONAR users can see the need/value of this effort and support it with their own requests to Cake.
 

Hey Chris - thanks. Also an opportunity to bump for the cause.

Thanks, Brando. Hopefully we can figure this out: I'd love to at least get my MFX Sustain Fix back into the hands of 64-bit users!
 
I also wrote to Frank of Frank's MIDI Plug-Ins (http://www.midi-plugins.de/), who told me that he didn't have to do anything special to get his MFX working under 64-bit. He confirmed that there is no new SDK for 64-bit, and the old one is the only one to use (no other exists).
 
Right now I'm mostly suspecting old project compile settings that might be incompatible with the new compiler. I'll try to get to work on that soon.
 
- m

I checked Frank's website and the two versions are separate downloads. The 32 bit plug is 26.5 mb and the 64 bit is 30.1 mb. Maybe the difference is just the installed file - but it sure seems like there is more going on than that.

Markleford - Turns out my PM-ing superpowers are currently disabled.  Can you please write into our Technical Support? This will get you in our system with a case number and everything :)

http://www.cakewalk.com/support/contact/TechnicalSupport.aspx
 
Thanks!
ROCK
-DG
 

For those still following along...
 
With the help of Colin Jamieson (over in the Dev forum: http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=2737740) and Frank of Frank's MIDI Plugins (http://www.midi-plugins.de/), we've managed to crack the biggest hurdle to getting this thing working!
 
So I'm happy to report that I've managed to get a 64-bit version of my TenCrazy.com MFX SustainFix working under the trial version of SONAR X2 Producer*. Colin and I are still considering how to ease the installation quirks for MFX under systems with UAC, but hopefully I should be able to start re-releasing the free stuff soon for 64-bit.
 
To that end, I'd like to ask: which MFX plugins should be ported first? I can imagine TenCrazy.com MFX SustainFix and MFX CC Map should be at the top of the list. After that it's kind of up for grabs: probably MFX PortDiag and MFX TrackDiag should be next, since they help people debug various problems with their controllers...
 
You could reply here, or email me, or you could try out my new @TenCrazy twitter feed (link in my signature). In the future, you can follow @TenCrazy to get the latest update announcements, as I'm really not sure the best place for me to post them on the Cakewalk forums, given that MFX should work in all Cakewalk hosts!
 
Anyway, that's the update. I should be able to get productive again Any Day Now, so chime in on what you'd like to see in the future.
 
Cheers,
- m
 
 
 
(* Yes, only the trial version of SONAR X2 Producer: I'm stuck back on SONAR 8.5 Producer, currently, as I fell off the Beta train a while back when I couldn't dedicate the time to testing. So if someone could help me out there, please consider hooking me up with a Developer NFR copy of the latest so that I can test under the latest version! For more on my "BeggingWare" model: http://tencrazy.com/donate/)
 

Brando
I am off to leave a donation

Done

which MFX plugins should be ported first? I can imagine TenCrazy.com MFX SustainFix and MFX CC Map should be at the top of the list. After that it's kind of up for grabs: probably MFX PortDiag and MFX TrackDiag should be next

That sounds about right.  Track Doorman would be useful in X2.  Let's face it:  I've gotten good mileage out of Note Rotator, Velocity Releaser, Velocity to CC, and even Dynamic Hat.  It's hard to choose what would be next in that lineup.
 
 
And look at what Qunexus does with hardware very similar to Channel Switch.  Polyphonic pitch bend by switching per-note pitchbends from MIDI channel to MIDI channel over Omni.
 
You're familiar with some of my other 'dream' suggestions in the Developer's Forum thread.  I appreciate all of the renewed effort.