The buggy road to my first plugin
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I know its a provocative title but made you look
Ok so let me start by saying Ive been on Hise for the last one and a half month developing and having a great time. The interface / logistics take some time to get used to, but getting the hang off where what and when. Its a really nice lowcode solution and I thorougly enjoy development. The MCP server is really nice to work with as well and really adds to Claude's knowledge which speeds up everything.
BUT
I've seen and worked around a LOT of bugs in the development of my first plugin and am kind of doubting if a commercial license and release is worth it. Let me sum them up. This is building on Windows.
- Faust: There is a bug in the Faust handling and it would stop working after export to VST.
WORKAROUND: Made a very simple Script FX containing only the Faust node, and made sure names werent duplicate.
- Feedback / delay loop from template. Clicking in the menu to compile to DLL would crash Hise. After a lot of excluding, the feedback loop (from template!) is the culprit.
WORKAROUND: I cant compile the entire network to DLL, but this isnt needed. This DOES force me to compile SNEX nodes seperately and excludes the waveshaper (because apparently this needs a compiled state). Also it's bad for performance.
- GlobalMod LFO. I used a custom Script LFO one. Again on exporting, this would stop working.
WORKAROUND; After a lot of puzzling the answer was to precompile the node in a minimal scriptnode, instead of a Hardcoded modulator, and wire up again. This however made the raw signal unusable for the LFO led on my frontend.
- Any kind of analyser crashes HISE. For some reason when I click on the analyser tab when I want to add an analyser node, it crashes. I know it preloads existing nodes as well, so might have been me FAFOing but its not pretty
WORKAROUND: The LFO signal couldnt be picked up by an analyser, but the Globalmod receiver did have a displaybuffer. Used that instead. Was harder to set up, because this was in the path of the Cutoff, and not the Pitch (which was wired into the Waveform generator).So basically I feel like there is some technical debt bugwise. I would like to contribute and file these as proper bugs on github. Hell I'll even wire up Claude to make some code proposals if it helps. What would be a good way to do this? Where do crash logs go?
Is there any chance on a hardening development round, now that we have had some cool stuff on the AI side?
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@Sifres so I've written and released dozens of commercial plugins, nearly all of them included some Faust code - and they all work fine. My primary development platform is also windows.
The problems you describe are not commonly reported - and I've never really seen them, so this leads me to suspect its a problem in your config. not a problem in HISE.
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Thanks for the response, good to hear your road is less rocky and commercial useage is working out!
The globalmod and faust module bugs have similar issues reported on the forum. The feedback loop has been confirmed as a bug on Windows by David in the latest release.
Defenitely wouldnt rule out a configuration issue, would still like to know how to trace that without having to reinstall my entire system.
