Hipno Plugin Questions
How do I get good results from the Spectral Processing Plugins?
It can't be stressed enough that the prests that use
spectral processing are
really dependent on their
input for what they do. Audio plug-ins that perform spectral or granular
processing will produce wildly different results
depending on their input source since they're working
directly with
only the spectral components of an
input signal as source material. A plug-in that will do
really interesting things with a viola may not be nearly
as useful when used to treat a wash of static from your
old shortwave radio.
In the days before the Hipnoscope,
people who made presets had to make guesses about
what people would probably be doing with a plug-in
(something that's a lot harder in Hipnoland). Hipno lets
you not only explore the whole range of interpolated
possibilities
between the plug-in presets themselves,
but also to take a set of values you discover and make
it a snapshot (by shift-clicking on the S row for a
snapshot button). When combined with the ability
to save your own explorations and to load different
Hipnoscopes, you can probably guess that we're not
going to wait up until you get home.
When I click and drag in the Hipnoscope, nothing happens! What do I do?
Some hosts do not process events when the audio is not being processed. A couple of examples include Peak and Logic. They do this to try and save you valuable CPU resources, essentially disabling the plugin (and the Hipnoscope).
The solution is make sure that audio is being processed by your plugin when you are trying to use the Hipnoscope.
I know I can load different Hipnoscopes, but why would I want to do _that?_
One way to think of a single preset in any Hipnoscoped plug-in is as a "set"
of eight different snapshots: one for each of the colored buttons. You can load and use different Hipnoscopes to change the way that these "sets" of values are interpolated as you move the puck.
If you discover an effect you really like in the course of exploring the Hipnoscope, you can save it as one of the colored snapshots by clicking on the button in the "s" column. You can save a whole new group
of eight snashots
and any Hipnoscope you want by clicking on the
plugins's Export button and naming your preset, too.
Is there a "Lazy Man's" guide to creating new presets with the Hipnoscope?
Something one could do would be:
- Create a set of 8 "presets" for a scope and save it
- Using the store and load buttons, shuffle the positions
of each color (this loses one preset, but it's a small price
to pay)
- Load a new scope
- Go through and "tweak" the presets by paying special
attention to places on the scope where they sound
interesting. In fact, find a place on the currently loaded
scope and use IT for the 8th preset.
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