Fun with Windows installers. Wait, did I say fun?

Coming to you live from my Surface Book 3 running Windows 11. Windows used to be my daily driver (except for Linux in movie VFX that is), but then I went all MacOS when I started to dev for iOS. This is so weird lol. Aaaanyway.

Why am I here? The looping plugin I'm working on will also run on Windows, but to get it ready I have to make an installer. Gave myself a week to sort this out, but looks like install/uninstall is already working. It's been like, a day. The thing that really annoyed me though wasn't the guts of it, it was discovering that to codesign my work, juuuust to codesign it, the digital certificate costs $340 for one year. What on earth? It's included with api/sdk, TestFlight, beta test tools, code safety reviews etc that comes with the $99 Apple Dev fee. I never thought I'd see Apple being significantly cheaper than a Windows counterpart, but here we are, in the upside down world.

For now I think I'll go with unsigned code, at least until I know that people actually like this plugin.

Here's some useful stuff if you want to make your own installer using Inno Setup, which seems to be pretty great so far:

1. Customising the banner graphic
2. Custom installer theme

DAW Plugin to help with audio recorded without a metronome! - Part 2

Got some the audio-plugin behaving nicely! It's still looks pretty horrendous, but it's logic is functioning properly, efficiently and reliably. Pretty important facets! I'm finding it fun to use too. :)

The workflow is:

1. Record your audio directly into the plugin
2. Set your loop start and end points, fine tuning if necessary
3. Set your number of bars (if the estimate isn't what you want), and set your time signature (if it's not the default 4/4)
4. Click the bpm to copy, and in Reaper you can Ctrl/Cmd V to paste it.
5. Set the DAW Time signature to match also
6. Drag the audio clip to your main daw timeline.

DAW Plugin to help with audio recorded without a metronome!

Well this is happening then! I'm somewhat feature complete on a plugin that allows you record audio and curate it to make a timed loop that you can then use to build up your DAW session. Does that make sense? No, right? It's ok I'll try and release a video soon :)