NKS Development Discussion

Have been doing some experimenting today, and it appears that knob colours (despite it only being a json file) are limited to official NKS 2 products.

I'll keep trying, but that's slightly disappointing.

To change the knob colour, you don't need any additional files (I thought we might, due to Diva), but it's just simply adding one line to color.json - so the entire json file should read like this:

{

 "VB_bgcolor": "00145E",

 "NKS2_Control_Color": "FF0077"

}

For those plugins with lighter aspect colour, simply do not insert the line for white knobs.

Equator2 is NKS1 content - so I would imagine it should work for anything in the user library in theory, including reaktor ensembles.

That said, there's a few plugins that are working with knob color, including Spitfire and Expressive E, so I'm going to do some more tinkering to see if I can change that.

Now Available: VPS Avenger 2 NKS Library

Complete overhaul of the Avenger library for the new Avenger 2 release. It was impossible to update the previous library as Avenger 1 would crash with the VST3 version on any preset using the Arp system. That has been fixed now in the new V2 plugin but of course is a paid upgrade and the old NKS files are not compatible at all so they all had to be done from scratch.

This library covers all factory presets from the Factory/Factory 2 libraries with all tagging I did in the past carried into the new files and a few updates and changes to the template. The Main filter page is now page 2 and all the modular pages for Amp, Filter, Shaper, LFO and Envelope will cover the first 3 modules that a preset has (which in 98% of cases is fine) but will only show the actual modules added in Avenger:

Additionally, each preset has up to 2 macro module pages available with macro page 1 on the first page and macro page 2 (only if it exists in the preset) available on the second page with all macros labelled as they are in the preset. This all should make each preset much easier to operate instead of having generic and minimal controls but does make it difficult to update the templates if needed.

Most of the layout is based off the original template that received good feedback over the last 10 years so I did not mess with it other than several suggestions to move the main filter page to be before the modular ones.

And for the questions about expansions that usually crop up, sorry, still zero plans to add support for expansions at this stage as I still personally find them far too expensive to be bothered to even look at.

Supports VST3 Avenger 2 only (no VST 2 support)

Many thanks ! 👍️