sascha neudeck

I used the spectral shapers from soundhack.com without

any problem inside logic pro as au-plug in.

I used the spectral shapers from soundhack.com without
any problem inside logic pro as au-plug in.
now I


spectrum-shapers-inside-maxmsp

i'm on a powerbook 1,33 with 1,25gb ram, 10.3.9, max457, and i have the same problem...

Hi Sascha
i'm on a powerbook 1,33 with 1,25gb ram, 10.3.9, max457, and i have the same problem...


to be more precisely; it seems to be a GUI problem.

The CPU capacity raises to 95-100% when I open the window of the

spectrum shaper (doubleclick on vst~), and goes down again when I close the window.

I will post this problem also to the spectrum shaper forum at

to be more precisely; it seems to be a GUI problem.
The CPU capacity raises to 95-100% when I open the window of the
spectrum shaper (doubleclick on vst~), and goes down again when I close the window.
I will post this problem also to the spectrum shaper forum at
soundhack.com

I have experienced the same issue when opening the spectral shapers 

in my performance patch. Only, if I repeatedly open and close the 

This is obviously not welcome during a live performance!

I wrote to Tom Erbe about this issue and sent him a crash report 

and he said that the problem pointed to a GUI issue when it was 

He asked for my patch to test it on, but I haven't heard back from 

Just to let you guys know that i've experienced the same behavior.

I hope this gets fixed soon as they are really great plugins!

I have experienced the same issue when opening the spectral shapers  
GUI via vst~
in my performance patch.  Only, if I repeatedly open and close the  
GUI it crashes max.
This is obviously not welcome during a live performance!
I wrote to Tom Erbe about this issue and sent him a crash report  
several months ago
and he said that the problem pointed to a GUI issue when it was  
trying to redraw.
He asked for my patch to test it on, but I haven't heard back from  
him...
Just to let you guys know that i've experienced the same behavior.

I have got an answer from tom erbe about this problem:

i think i have found the problem which is causing this (it is causing max to want to redraw the gui repeatedly). oddly enough, this bug seems only to be triggered by max. this fix will be in next vst release, which is due out soon. 

i think i have found the problem which is causing this (it is causing max to want to redraw the gui repeatedly). oddly enough, this bug seems only to be triggered by max. this fix will be in next vst release, which is due out soon. 
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Quote: sascha neudeck wrote on Tue, 11 April 2006 05:01

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> to be more precisely; it seems to be a GUI problem.

> The CPU capacity raises to 95-100% when I open the window of the

> spectrum shaper (doubleclick on vst~), and goes down again when I close the window.

> I will post this problem also to the spectrum shaper forum at

the interface of the soundhack plugs is written

in quicktime, maybe it is only making trouble

when there is other heavy GUI stuff happning in

they are pretty slow in other hosts too, and we 

are also used to slow graphics in maxsp ... the 

combination of the two is probably too much ;)

Quote: sascha neudeck wrote on Tue, 11 April 2006 05:01
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> to be more precisely; it seems to be a GUI problem.
> The CPU capacity raises to 95-100% when I open the window of the
> spectrum shaper (doubleclick on vst~), and goes down again when I close the window.
> I will post this problem also to the spectrum shaper forum at
> soundhack.com

the interface of the soundhack plugs is written
in quicktime, maybe it is only making trouble
when there is other heavy GUI stuff happning in
the max patch?
they are pretty slow in other hosts too, and we 
are also used to slow graphics in maxsp  ... the 
combination of the two is probably too much ;)


I have just finished a beta of SoundHack Spectral Shapers for VST - 

Universal Binary. If you are interested in trying them out, you will 

These should work on new versions of Ableton Live software 

as well as Max/MSP. There are a number of fixes to improve their 

I have just finished a beta of SoundHack Spectral Shapers for VST -  
Universal Binary. If you are interested in trying them out, you will  
find the link on http://www.soundhack.com

These should work on new versions of Ableton Live software  
as well as Max/MSP. There are a number of fixes to improve their  
performance on Max/MSP as well.

You know, I have had quite a lot of problems with various vsts in maxmsp. Interesting to learn about the quicktime problems. I have had very many plugins that worked fine in other hosts act incredibly funny and invariably spike the cpu up to 100%. Such a shame ;/

spectrum Shapers inside max/msp