ardenbutterfield / maim

Audio plugin for custom MP3 distortion and digital glitches

striving to make audio software that is playful and surprising.

sometimes i break mp3s.

maim's Issues

Requested features for further customization

Hello,
Firstly, thanks for this fantastic plugin! As someone who enjoys the more esoteric side of sound production this is very exciting. As a sidenote, I'm blind and use screen reading software with Reaper on Windows 10, no issues present with Maim's accessibility.
Below are a few requests for added functionality to further customize the desired output, based on experience using other spectral plugins such as DTBLKFX by Darrell Tam:

• Ability to adjust the block/FFT size, (I imagine  this would effect the speed of the lossy compression with smaller sizes producing bubbly liquid effects, and larger sizes having slower glassy shimmers?)
• Ability to adjust the amount of block overlapping, imagining this could change the overall effect from steppy to smooth?
• A slider to adjust the amount of pre-echo, perhaps the above suggestions would play a part in this effect?
• I'm curious if having options for stereo and joint-stereo would have a noticeable effect?

Thanks for your consideration!

Sigtrap when running in debug mode linux

Some new issue with linking Lame

blade blasts noise after a couple seconds of silence

mac os 10.13 intel version ?

Hello,

fantastic idea, i did this in 2000's with a real lame mp3 encoder , noticed quiet soon spectral side effects when choosing lower bitrates ...

but i tried it out , on my mac os 10.13.6 macbook pro with ableton live 9 & 11 suite, also on FL Studio 20
but nothing, it sees the maim plugin , only in AU though, no VST3
when i click on it, nothing happens ... same in FL Studio

So the question is could you make it also available for older mac OS please ?

Or also, when i build it myself, would it work then on my system ?

Thank you ,
have a nice day,
j.a.p.

"stick" on one mdct frame until next short block would probably sound cool

GUI scaling?

I'm using MAIM on a 4K screen on Ubuntu 23.10 and the plugin gui is quite small. Here's a screenshot of it loaded in Carla

It's not unusable but it would be great if there were scaling options for screens with high density options. Thanks!

Bitrate squeeze param

same as the other ones

Organize the sliders on the page better

Bias the threshold, like how i did in Empy

I'll see if i can remember how i did the math for that...

demos

support 96k

Maybe downsample? to get those 96k-ers to really seethe? Or to do what we're doing and treat it as a lower sample rate. I'm not sure what the best approach is here.

mix %

bring back save/restore xml

LV2 build and release?

Hi! I was wondering if an LV2 build and release might be possible? Thanks!

Play around with long and short blocks

i.e., how would it sound if we only used short blocks? or a different criteria for long vs short?

Determine exact latency

Needed for #34, as well as to tell the daw

set up some automated tests

set up github actions build pipeline

Find which bends work in Blade

Graph psych threshold

Maybe do something with it? i remember i didn't have great results with bending it but maybe i didn't try everything i should have

Document where lame bends are/docstrings for the classes

before i forget how everything works

Use threshold as gate

mac installer

input/output gain controls

Make LameControllerManager the listener for its parameters

it's kinda unwieldy for that to be managed in AP

Write manual

Convert to CMake build process

https://github.com/sudara/pamplejuce
This will help with #30 and #29

Get rid of the parameter that's causing problems (samp incr)

it didn't sound that good anyway

Tidy layout

Lookandfeel / custom sliders

Maim icon

Segmentation fault when loading Maim via Carla Patchbay via LMMS

Thank you for this program! I heard the sample audio clips on the Maim homepage and I was excited to try it out on some of my music. I ran into some trouble though.

I'm attempting to run Maim 1.0.0 on Linux.

lsb_release -a                                                                                   INT ✘ 
LSB Version:    n/a
Distributor ID: ManjaroLinux
Description:    Manjaro Linux
Release:        23.1.0
Codename:       Vulcan

The way I usually interact with VST3 files is using Carla instrument plugin inside LMMS.

Unfortunately, loading Maim consistently crashes Carla and LMMS every time I load Maim into Carla. Here's the console output of lmms.

lmms                                                                                                 ✔ 
*** WEAK-JACK: initializing
*** WEAK-JACK: OK. (0)
Notice: could not set realtime priority.
QtXmlWrapper::loadXMLfile(): empty data
[carla] Trying to start carla-plugin using "/usr/share/carla/resources/carla-plugin-patchbay"
LRDF Support not available (LADSPA-RDF will be disabled)
Carla 2.5.7 started, status:
  Python version: 3.11.5
  Qt version:     5.15.11
  PyQt version:   5.15.10
  Binary dir:     /usr/lib/carla
  Resources dir:  /usr/share/carla/resources
Frontend pixel ratio is 1.0
qt.qpa.wayland: setGrabPopup called with a parent, QtWaylandClient::QWaylandXdgSurface(0x55ec9f343440) which does not match the current topmost grabbing popup, QtWaylandClient::QWaylandXdgSurface(0x55ec9f3c2180) According to the xdg-shell protocol, this is not allowed. The wayland QPA plugin is currently handling it by setting the parent to the topmost grabbing popup. Note, however, that this may cause positioning errors and popups closing unxpectedly because xdg-shell mandate that child popups close before parents
Got SIGTERM -> Closing now
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  lmms

here's some dmesg output

[159769.799304] lmms[789640]: segfault at fff88e5b ip 00007f139935cac0 sp 00007ffe31a294b0 error 6 in Maim.so[7f1398eaa000+518000] likely on CPU 7 (core 3, socket 0)
[159769.799315] Code: 89 fd 53 31 db 48 83 ec 08 48 8b 17 48 8b 0d 8f a1 1c 00 48 8b 05 80 a1 1c 00 0f 28 05 49 be 08 00 48 8d ba b4 00 00 00 89 d6 <48> 89 4a 20 66 0f 6f 0d e4 b8 08 00 48 83 e7 f8 66 0f 6f 15 c8 b8

I've also attached a LMMS stacktrace and a Carla stacktrace in case they are helpful.

lmms-strace.txt
carla-patchbay-lmms-strace.txt

support larger audioprocessor block sizes than promised

Attempt to hook Blade up to the plugin

i.e. replace main function

gray out sliders that are lame only when they aren't enabled

short block indicator light