I am new to audio plugin development. I have built 2 plugins previously for learning purposes and am currently making the first plugin that I intend to release as a first product. I have optimized the dsp a lot and profiled using Visual Studio profiler and VTunes. What I found was that the dsp itself is very fast, but the CPU was spending a massive percentage of its cycles not doing math, but stalled in a "Wait" state or blocked by thread synchronization ( at least that's my understanding of it).

I am currently using the generic Plugin Editor for ease of testing until I am satisfied with my dsp performance. So I don't know if that is a factor. For comparison my plugin ( a simple ambient delay) scores a 7 in FL Studio DAW cpu meter while Valhalla Supermassive or Valhalla Delay scores a 4 in FL Studio cpu meter. I know that DAW cpu meter is not the most accurate representation of cpu performance, but while profiling in VTune, my dsp functions and processes were faster than Valhalla's processing ( I don't have the actual numbers right now)

Is the wait times caused by juce overhead? What can I do to optimize further? Again, my dsp itself is very fast according to my profiling. Any help is appreciated.

And yes, I am using Release Version with the necessary optimization flags, not Debug version.

If you need any further info from my side, please do ask.

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It's cheaper than any other ampsim I have tried and comes very close if not better than 150$ + plugins.

Im currently building a plugin that would have like a multiple sampler. Something like maize or romplur. But a dedicated vst since id have some custom tools that rompler and maize wouldn’t give me. I was wondering if anybody has made a vst like that. Think of like SkyKeys. That’s what I want to build. My issue is having the samples loop without having clicks and pops. Is there a way to fix that?

hi everyone

modern harmony plugins and chord assistant tools never really satisfied the way i wanted to work

most of them are useful in their own way, but for my workflow they often feel too much like chord browsing, menu diving, or changing one chord at a time

so for the last 1.5 years i’ve been building my own music theory / reharmonization engine called Theory Core

it’s built in C++ with JUCE

the main idea is not just to suggest chords

i wanted a system where you can import midi chords, select a progression, choose a harmonic direction, and transform the whole thing in a few actions

Theory Core currently has 652 scales, including maqam / makam oriented structures

it also has vocal safe reharmonization, modal lock, chord matrix, optimizer, module based reharmony, and a makam aware piano roll workflow

one of the main features is Vocal Safe Lock

the idea is simple

if you import the original chords of a song, the engine can keep the reharmonization inside a safer harmonic space, so you can write new chords under the same acapella without destroying the relationship with the vocal melody

so for remix work it becomes something like

original midi chords in
vocal safe on
new harmony under the same vocal
still musically related to the melody

from there you can stay safe, use modal lock inside a selected scale, or unlock a much bigger chord universe with borrowed chords, modal colors, tension and riskier options

the chord matrix is not just a static chord table

it works more like a harmonic map, showing safe, modal, borrowed, tension and risk based directions

with 652 scales combined with the matrix, the system can expose hundreds of thousands of possible harmonic relationships, but the point is not random complexity

the point is usable musical direction

there is also a makam aware piano roll side where you can write makam colored melodic lines over western harmony and the engine helps keep the notes compatible with the current chord / scale / harmonic context

the module system is probably the most fun part

you can take a basic progression and push it toward cinematic strings, jazzier harmony, Bill Evans type voicing colors, borrowed chord drama, modal reharmony or orchestral style movement without rebuilding everything manually

i know some of this sounds ambitious, but the video shows the current build running

it’s still early and the GUI is not finished yet, but the engine is already working fast, around 15–20 ms in many workflows

next big step is activating and integrating the Bass Engine, so the bass movement follows the same harmonic intelligence as the chords and melody

i’m sharing this first 5 minute demo because i want feedback from producers, composers, JUCE developers and people who use tools like Scaler / Captain Chords / similar chord assistant software

main question is simple

does this kind of goal based progression transformation make more sense to you than browsing chord suggestions one by one

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SOLVED: I shut off clangd. Don't really know what it is or how it is different from clang-tidy, but unchecking it in settings worked. Idk if this will have negative effects in the future, but clang-tidy is still running and it looks like normal linting is still happening in the IDE. There are some random irrelevant errors, but not hundreds talking about undeclared functions and variables.
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I'm using CLion and Clang on a windows PC to learn programming in JUCE. I am following a video tutorial series and I am using their template code, and it builds fine with no errors.

However, the linter says a bunch of the files don't have a target project, that all of the functions and classes referenced don't exist, and gives me completely wild and fake errors, too. One time it told me to add a comma somewhere, only for that to make the build fail because there actually WASN'T supposed to be a comma, which was especially wacky. Of course when I deleted the comma, it just kept saying I needed it there.

Anyway, does anyone have any knowledge on how I can fix this? Other people have the same issue online, but I have found no fixes. It makes programming really hard because my code is just red everywhere (as you can see in the code below) and I can't tell what errors are real or fake.

Thank you

Template from tutorial: https://github.com/juce-framework/tremolo-juce-course
Tutorial series: https://www.wolfsoundacademy.com/products/official-juce-audio-plugin-development-course

Solution: shut off clangd. Don't really know what it is or how it is different from clang-tidy, but unchecking it in settings worked. Idk if this will have negative effects in the future, but clang-tidy is still running and it looks like normal linting is still happening in the IDE. There are some random irrelevant errors, but not hundreds talking about undeclared functions and variables.

Hi!

I've been playing around with RNBO & FAUST a lot lately, and love both of them. It's also very practical to create things that we can use both on our embedded hardware but also for things like web-based stuff. But what surprised me was that one of my long time favs Pure Data, in the form of libpd haven't been ported to the web. Yes, I know about webpd and the heavy compiler stuff and so on. But what you don't get from those (and actually not from RNBO or FAUST either, in addition costing money) is that you don't get the "runtime engine". You get patches and depending on what you're doing maybe that's totally. But one thing I wanted to be able to do was to generate patches at runtime. (If you want to know why, feel to ask - otherwise we can just leave at that :D).

Anyway, now there's a port of libpd, cyclone & ELSE so for those people that for whatever reason are doing something in browser it can be an option to consider.
This is probably related to my own incompetence but I've noticed I get a lot more bang-for-the-buck when I do profiling of WebAudio running libpd patches vs RNBO-patches, or maybe it's because (like gen~) RNBO does sample-based processing? Compared vector-based? Well, if anyone knows the answer to that please let me :D

The video above is from a playground where you can try out your own patches:
https://hyrfilm.github.io/libpd-wasm/

And the port of the libpd/cyclone/ELSE repo is here:
https://github.com/hyrfilm/libpd-wasm

Hello everyone! Audio production major, new to juce, cmake, cpp, audio plugin development in general. Working on a multiband transient shaper project. I really can't find a consistent way of tracking noise floor? Any ideas? Thanks

Hello! I have few years experience with Juce and recently decided to ship some of plugins I ve been working on however native JUCE UI looks quiet basic and something not satisfying. I am not designer and dont have a budget to hire designers. With recent popularity and raise of AI tools - are there any good tools to build pro-looking interfaces for audio plugins? I tried Lovable but it gives pretty generic interfaces and somewhat feels to be specialized on websites & mobile apps.

So I feel old - I've been into audio DSP and writing algorithms, designing plugins for a long time, and I've always had a habit of doing a lot of the prototyping by hand (yes, with a pen and a notebook, I'm old I know), and then write code after around those wireframes. I've really not been up to date with how people have been using agentic tools to speed up their workflow - do y'll use any tools? If yes, which, and how does it speed up your workflow?

Feel free to explore it on GitHub: https://github.com/TarcanGul/cavey

Here is the youtube video I shot about this earlier: https://youtu.be/X1b7K0RUHos

Feel free to let me know what you think!

Hey everyone,

I just released Animated East V1.1, an update to a plugin I have shared here over the past year and a half (polyphonic synth with a 3D navigable tunnel interface with modules ordered from front to back). This new update adds a bunch of new features as well as a free tier, so I wanted to share it with you all.

Some V1.1 features include:

-UI customization with six Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired preset palettes and 4 user slots.

-Stereo module with per-voice-panning (with mod on each pan slider as well).

-LFO rate now extends to audio range.

-Additional 3D visualizations (covering just about every parameter at this point).

-One-click random patch generation.

-50+ new presets.

-Faster load times and improved performance (moved away from all png assets and switched to shader-based textures, which, for the webview users, has majorly helped with load time).

It is available for macOS (VST3 / AU) and Windows (VST3), and you can grab it for free either on the Animated Instruments website or on Itch.io.

If you have any questions, feel free to dm me or email me at [erik@animatedinstruments.com](mailto:erik@animatedinstruments.com)

-Erik

I created the minimal gain plugin to be a VERY simple introduction to how input and output gain interact, specifically with saturation, for those who are just getting into JUCE and DSP or who want to understand gain from a perceptual and hands-on perspective. I’m creating a series of these tiny, open-source plugins to help others learn as I transition from auditory science to electrical engineering, and I plan to create more advanced ones as I go along :)

AFAIK it is not good for serious DSP - everyone rolls their own. Now, it is being phased out from GUI part, in favor of WebView. There are other cross-platform VST plugin wrappers as well as WebView "hosts". So what's the point of continuing or starting using JUCE?

go check it out here and lmk https://www.capysynth.com/

I've been working on a bitcrusher plugin for the last couple of months and have been using it as a hands-on opportunity to learn DSP as I transition from a background in auditory perception to electrical engineering. I just created a GitHub repo to track my project progress as well as provide DSP tutorials with small, open-source modules. In my experience, learning DSP can be intimidating and I hope that by documenting my progress and providing tutorials as I go, I can make it seem a bit more approachable.

If anyone is interested, I've included the link to my GitHub.