Decision to buy flowstone: Enough help for newbies?

[Cruba]

Hi all!

I wanna buy Flowstone next month, but there is one fact I'm worried about: 5 of my Newbie questions here in Forum was unanswerd. The stuff I asked, can't be found doing a google search. So here is my question: Is there a working community anywhere to help starters/newbies?

It's simple questions like:

1) I need a knob that add and substract float values in one (to detune more than one OSC in one)
2) Additional OSCs are louder than one, what to do (I found a silly but working solution for it)
3) Basic MIDI problems
4) Everything pops & clicks, what to do.
5) How to avoid crashing your ears while making experiments? There is enough wireing, that bypass volume controls.

I searched whole forum here, also inet and sorry to say: It feels like a diet, also what you find on youtube. It's let me lie, 5? tutorials.

[tulamide]

I can only answer from my personal point of view:

The active community is rather small. All of us are always willing to help. But, we are no employees of DSPRobotics and therefore pick the questions we answer. Not everyone can answer everything. That's not about knowledge, but simply time investment.

As a beginner, it is a tough start if you want to rely on the community help. There simply is no guarantee. There's a comprehensive user guide and component reference and it is inevitable to read them (yes, I know, reading is sooo old-school ). There's also the "Flowstone Examples" section that is full of schematics showing how particular tasks are done, and of course the "User Examples" section.

For me, the selection of which posts to answer is simple: If I don't understand the question, I probably have not the knowledge needed to answer.

[Cruba]

Well, I'm not that slow in understanding new software and I've also read the User Manual and also the complete (no joke) module reference.

It's still a bit of gamble for me to buy flowstone and then, after that, see if all the user examples etc. will help me.

The big bad thing is a 7 days trail. I found the user examples after the trial expired.

On the other side I think ther's more than 100 people using Flowstone for VST development and so it's really weird for me, that there is no active community. That's the key fact for being worried.

I think it's really weird to find 5 pdf tutorials over a normal google search and one is hidden in a big 500+ tutorials index and it is in french. lol

[Spogg]

This might help.

I just posted this in my Synthmaker Greatest Hits topic:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3zf6rjw3ojy54 ... I.zip?dl=0

Cheers

Spogg

[Cruba]

Yeah, I saw both bundles (forum & examples). I've somebody downloading it for me if time. Seems to be a slow download. Ty anyways.

[Nubeat7]

as far as i could see none of your questions in the forum where ignored..

1, watch the "min/max" module inside the knob and split the signal
2, yes if you add a an osc signal to another osc signal it gets louder, i know this is strange but thats how things are working
3, what do you assume to answer?
4, find the part which produces the problem and share it
5, turn your amp down and use a clipper

so you are worried after a few days already and your decision to buy FS is depending on the help you get in the forum, i can tell you, if you are not a very selfdriven person then programming is not for you, there are problems where you will fight for weeks to get them fixed just to find out that they produce 5 other problems, each needs weeks to fix again...., welcome to the world of programming,
i'm also very sorry for you that google and youtube couldn't answer your questions, its a very rude world here in the inet

btw. i still rtfm after 5 years