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[Perfect Human Interface]

I'm in a bit of a crazy mission at the moment to fill as many holes in Flowstone as possible.
The first one was free running oscillators which has taken nearly a decade of people making synths before I grabbed the bull by the horns and made it possible.

Other missions include a 64bit wrapper, VST3 wrapper, a proper GUI toolkit for Ruby (Trog and I are teaming up for that) and plenty of other things that are now possible because of the dll component.
The pace of development of Flowstone has always been frustrating so I'm pushing in as many areas as I can!

There's nothing I enjoy more than letting other people do the hard work so I can get back to my ideas, so all power to you.

And hey, I get it. I did make that (hold on to your seat) pan knob a while back. I seem to be the only person of the mind to make one that works "properly" and upload it so far. Maybe you could add that to the guru box.

Seriously though, I hope this works out well. And of course more exposure would be awesome. I know I'm not the only one who selfishly wishes Flowstone was more popular for vst development so that more development resources would go into it.

[Nubeat7]

There's nothing I enjoy more than letting other people do the hard work so I can get back to my ideas, so all power to you.

and there is nothing i enjoy more than doing the hard work for other people (as long they pay me good) so just PM me if you need something..

[Exo]

Exo has better chances to make something good and not crap, because he is actively involved in FS, and because he seems to know (hopefully) how to configure what he does on the web. I give him 60% chances of longterm success.

I like them odds

But honestly speaking - it would be better to have some harvester on this and SM forum, that gathers available downloadable stuff automatically, so that some sort of re-indexing can be done (project=stays / issue=away / solved=depends-on-content // + cattegory selection). Basically something that combines forum capabilities with conceptual threading (use posts or redirected quotes as descriptors) as well; so that nobody has to begin from scratch. And in that ocean new ideas could emerge. It has to be non-one-person so to speak.

People have already mentioned to me about going through and collecting all the work from the forums, I ruled out this approach and even if done by a bot.

People should upload there work themselves, the reasons are many....

1. I cannot just assume that people would be happy for there work to be hosted on my site, even though they have freely shared it they didn't share it on my site so I have no right to just collect them up and host them there.

2. If people upload their work themselves it means they have direct access to delete it and update it as they see fit basically keeping them in control of their work.

3. Also they will be properly credited because the upload is under there name and we can be sure they are the author.

4. It gives the author a chance to update the module and tidy it up and fix any bugs before uploading, so you can be assured that the module on Flowstone Guru will be the stablest and best version to use.

ect...

If this pans out like I hope the majority of people that share their work on the forum will want to give certain modules they have created a permanent home on Flowstone Guru. Kind of like a showcase of there best and proudest work, easily accessible by others.
So it is not meant as just a database for all the stuff posted over the years it is much more than that.

Trogluddite is on board with this and so is KG_IS_Back aka kohugaly which is his username on Flowstone Guru.

If others get involved this could be a big success and certainly not the work of one person. If it is all down to me then it may fall flat on it's face, I can only produce so many modules. I have had a good response from the other 'gurus' so far, I think they really get it.

[Exo]

And hey, I get it. I did make that (hold on to your seat) pan knob a while back. I seem to be the only person of the mind to make one that works "properly" and upload it so far. Maybe you could add that to the guru box.

Hey if you wanna share it just sign up to the site and give me your username via the Contact page and I will give you the option to upload

[KG_is_back]

There are several modules/packs that should be added, but I don't know if the user is still active. Like RBJ filters for example.

[Exo]

There are several modules/packs that should be added, but I don't know if the user is still active. Like RBJ filters for example.

Good point there is many modules that should be up from inactive members I think in them cases best idea is to try and contact them via private message. If they don't reply or don't want to put it up themselves then I guess I could create a special SMForum account and upload it via that and just make sure the author is credited in the description and the module.

But of course I still stand by the fact that active members should upload themselves.

[RJHollins]

some good points brought up.

Even between forums I don't feel right about posting someone else's module as an offer to help. Going only on my judgment, out of respect. I have many modules in my toolbox that others have contributed to which I appreciate.
Some of these contributers did say they are free to use/distribute ... but I could not track which ones were OK for this.

I guess I never read a formal 'policy' to this regard ... so I've opted to only suggest search terms or links on the SM/FS forum. Maybe I'm doing this proper as EXO has written ?!?

[KG_is_back]

There are several modules/packs that should be added, but I don't know if the user is still active. Like RBJ filters for example.

Good point there is many modules that should be up from inactive members I think in them cases best idea is to try and contact them via private message. If they don't reply or don't want to put it up themselves then I guess I could create a special SMForum account and upload it via that and just make sure the author is credited in the description and the module.

But of course I still stand by the fact that active members should upload themselves.

Definitely! Also some people might be lazy to create account upload the modules by them selfs and maintain them on FS Guru. So they may simply write "this module is free to post on Flowstone Guru" or something when posting them here on forum, and we may add the module to FS Guru via that account.

[Exo]

some good points brought up.

Even between forums I don't feel right about posting someone else's module as an offer to help. Going only on my judgment, out of respect. I have many modules in my toolbox that others have contributed to which I appreciate.
Some of these contributers did say they are free to use/distribute ... but I could not track which ones were OK for this.

I guess I never read a formal 'policy' to this regard ... so I've opted to only suggest search terms or links on the SM/FS forum. Maybe I'm doing this proper as EXO has written ?!?

Yes I think it is always better to link to a module if that is possible obviously that can be hard if you cannot remember the terms used to find it in the first place.

[Exo]

There are several modules/packs that should be added, but I don't know if the user is still active. Like RBJ filters for example.

Good point there is many modules that should be up from inactive members I think in them cases best idea is to try and contact them via private message. If they don't reply or don't want to put it up themselves then I guess I could create a special SMForum account and upload it via that and just make sure the author is credited in the description and the module.

But of course I still stand by the fact that active members should upload themselves.

Definitely! Also some people might be lazy to create account upload the modules by them selfs and maintain them on FS Guru. So they may simply write "this module is free to post on Flowstone Guru" or something when posting them here on forum, and we may add the module to FS Guru via that account.

Yes that would be ok main thing is people explicitly saying they are ok with that.

I could share the password of the "Forum" account among the main uploaders so any of us with a spare bit of time could put stuff up.