Novation Bass Station - no sound

[Paul Eye]

Bass Sation isn't outputting any sound in Buzz. I can see its MIDI receive light blinking when playing so it's receiving the notes. Works fine in Reaper so the plugin isn't faulty. And other VSTi:s work fine, automapped or not.

Bass Station 2.1 32-bit
Latest Polac VST loader
Buzz 1498 32-bit
Win7 Ultimate 64-bit

Is there any (combination of) setting(s) in the plugin specific page of Polac's loader I should tick?

[mridlen]

As far as I am aware, the only way to get sound in is through the ASIO Input machine.

[Paul Eye]

What does that have to do with this. Im not trying to get sound INTO it, I'm trying to get sound OUT of it. It's a VSTi. I'm playing it via a MIDI keyboard, or entering notes into a pattern. Neither method produces any sound in Buzz.

[polac]

Hi, really don't know what's happening. You could try out this:

- enable "process with fixed blocksize" in loader preferences
- load the bass station vsti as a separate process(hold shift key while loading the vsti)

If this doesn't help take a look at the debug console in Buzz, the loader logs crashes here.

[Paul Eye]

Neither helps
Even the activity led on the machine stays off, even if both the keyboard and the MIDI light on the plugin GUI shows that notes are received.

[polac]

I think an earlier bass station version did work fine some years ago. I'll try the demo version if there is one tomorrow.

[polac]

I just tested the demo, the stereo versions of the bass station are working fine, however not the mono ones. I found out that the mono versions have some sort of bug, saying that they have stereo output, which messes up my output handling. I'll fix this soon.

[Paul Eye]

Oh damn, didn't think of testing the stereo version...
Of course a bug report to Novation could be a good idea?

[polac]

Oh damn, didn't think of testing the stereo version...
Of course a bug report to Novation could be a good idea?

I would call it a bug. The vst has only one mono output, however if you query the output information for pin 0 it says it is stereo which is wrong. But usually the host should be able to handle this.

Code: Select all

VstPinProperties vstpin = {0};

bool b = Dispatcher(effGetOutputProperties, 0, 0, &vstpin, 0) != 0;

if (vstpin.flags&kVstPinIsStereo && effect->numOutputs == 1) // this is the case in bass station vst
{
	vstpin.flags &= ~kVstPinIsStereo;
}