NKS Development Discussion

Very cool, thank you for doing this (in both languages)

Yes I'll do that, thanks again

Thanks a lot Mercury, for gathering all these info together, great work!

I would like to add few more "tricks" from my own research, for the more advanced users:

1- on the "gulp rewrite" command (the gulp r on Mercury's tutorial), i have included the FX too (.nksfx), otherwise you can not make NKS FX presets, only Instruments. Or you have to edit the document every time and change the name (from .nksf to .nksfx or vise-versa).

 gulp.src ["src/**/*.nksf", "src/**/*.nksfx"]

2- there is another great option, the "replace mapping". With this, you can mass-replace the default mapping of all presets, with your own personal (or, someone else's) template mapping. To do this, you need the gulp-nks-replace-mapping. Just put its folder to your "node_modules" folder and add this code to your gulpfile.coffee:

On the top of the document add this line:

replace = require 'gulp-nks-replace-mapping'

Then, after the "rewrite" section, add this:

gulp.task 'replace', ->

 gulp.src ["src/**/*.nksf", "src/**/*.nksfx"]

   .pipe replace 'src/Template.nksf', { type: 'NKSF' }

   .pipe gulp.dest 'dest'

Now, copy your own master template to the "src" folder and rename it to "Template" (or any other name you like, as long as you declare it in the above code). In the same folder put all the presets you want to change their mapping. You can put entire folders there, full banks with their sub-banks etc (for example, i did my entire 3rd party Zebra libraries, over 80 different banks, at once).

The process is exactly the same as Mercury described in his tutorial for the rewrite command, the only difference is that you are using "replace" instead of "rewrite". That's it!

Finally, here is my own gulpfile.coffee code, with all commands simplified and without any tasks that almost nobody use anymore (such as the "gulp print"):

gulp     = require 'gulp'
replace  = require 'gulp-nks-replace-mapping'
{ src, dest } = require 'gulp'
rewrite  = require 'gulp-nks-rewrite-meta'
beautify = require 'js-beautify'

gulp.task 'replace', ->
  gulp.src ["src/**/*.nksf", "src/**/*.nksfx"]
    .pipe replace 'src/Template.nksf', { type: 'NKSF' }
    .pipe gulp.dest 'dest'

gulp.task 'rewrite', ->
  gulp.src ["src/**/*.nksf", "src/**/*.nksfx"]
    .pipe rewrite
      author: 'add_your_name_or_leave empty'
      bankchain: ['product_name', 'bank_name', 'sub_bank_name']
    .pipe gulp.dest 'dest'

Note: Just remember to change the "author" and "bankchain" names!

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Some more tips:

You can do a lot of changes in those codes, as long as you keep the basic structure. For example, here is a template for the Fabfilter Twin, were i created 10 "src" folders (src1, src2, src3, etc.), each one for a different Twin bank. I also removed completely the "author" section:

gulp.task 'rewrite', ->
  gulp.src ["src/**/*.nksf", "src/**/*.nksfx"]
    .pipe rewrite
      bankchain: ['Twin 3', 'Arp', '']
    .pipe gulp.dest 'dest'
  gulp.src ["src1/**/*.nksf", "src1/**/*.nksfx"]
    .pipe rewrite
      bankchain: ['Twin 3', 'Bass', '']
    .pipe gulp.dest 'dest'
  gulp.src ["src2/**/*.nksf", "src2/**/*.nksfx"]
    .pipe rewrite
      bankchain: ['Twin 3', 'Best of Twin 2', '']
    .pipe gulp.dest 'dest'
  gulp.src ["src3/**/*.nksf", "src3/**/*.nksfx"]
    .pipe rewrite
      bankchain: ['Twin 3', 'Drums', '']
    .pipe gulp.dest 'dest'
  gulp.src ["src4/**/*.nksf", "src4/**/*.nksfx"]
    .pipe rewrite
      bankchain: ['Twin 3', 'FX', '']
    .pipe gulp.dest 'dest'
  gulp.src ["src5/**/*.nksf", "src5/**/*.nksfx"]
    .pipe rewrite
      bankchain: ['Twin 3', 'Keys', '']
    .pipe gulp.dest 'dest'
  gulp.src ["src6/**/*.nksf", "src6/**/*.nksfx"]
    .pipe rewrite
      bankchain: ['Twin 3', 'Lead', '']
    .pipe gulp.dest 'dest'
  gulp.src ["src7/**/*.nksf", "src7/**/*.nksfx"]
    .pipe rewrite
      bankchain: ['Twin 3', 'Pads', '']
    .pipe gulp.dest 'dest'
  gulp.src ["src8/**/*.nksf", "src8/**/*.nksfx"]
    .pipe rewrite
      bankchain: ['Twin 3', 'Sidechain', '']
    .pipe gulp.dest 'dest'
  gulp.src ["src9/**/*.nksf", "src9/**/*.nksfx"]
    .pipe rewrite
      bankchain: ['Twin 3', 'Synth', '']
    .pipe gulp.dest 'dest'

As you can see, things are quiet flexible (though there are limitations of course). Don't be afraid to experiment (as long as you keep a backup of your main gulpfile.coffee)!

Hope that this mini addition will give you some more insights to the whole process. :-)

I did also make a VST3 template for PPGWave 3 and was planning to save out the presets, which is a big job for me, but now I'm thinking if I start saving presets and they release a version 4 I will have to do it again so I might hold off a while before doing that.

I have posted the VST3 template in the User library under Current/Waldorf

I think instead I might convert a few of the free add-on libraries for Largo - there are quite a few good ones, also Nave perhaps