Project Declaration and Feature Requests
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Oof! Didn't think I'd be writing this one this soon.
So, I had started my search for something like HISE for a very specific thing. I wanted to build my own DAW...
I know... Massive dream. Especially for someone who's genuinely a noob at plugin design. But it has always been a dream of mine... I LOVE the console style designs like UAD LUNA or SSL 360...
But well, it IS a mammoth task, so I am breaking it into achievable chunks. I am first trying to build a channel strip plugin that will in future become the console that sits in my DAW. For that channel strip, my plan is to keep the knobs and faders style of the console era, but provide as much digital freedom as possible. For example, with the pan knobs, I wanted to make a pan knob with a crossover frequency that kept the low frequencies unpanned. I wanted a multiband stereo spreader with mono-compatibility. I made both. In HISE. (Got inspired by Boz Digital and Izotope Ozone. Incredible developers there).
What I want here is help to build my dream. Not help in making the plugins... I wanna do that all on my own (I will ask all my doubts and queries here, tho)... I want ideas on how to make this even cooler...
For now, since I am done with the PAN and STEREO plugins, and the output is just going to be a normal fader, the next thing I want to address is the EQ...
(My console idea is SATURATION->FILTERS->GATE->EQ->COMP->PAN/STEREO SHAPING->OUTPUT)
I want you all to give me ideas on what I can implement in these modules to make them stand out, to make them fun. What functionality do you wish there was in an SSL style 4 band parametric EQ (don't say dynamic or spectral tho... Idk how to do that in HISE
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@pratitghosh If your end goal is to build a DAW I'd start with something like Tracktion Engine (https://www.tracktion.com/develop/tracktion-engine) or use one of the existing open source DAWs as a base and customise it. It would save you a ton of work.
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@David-Healey I know about tracktion engine... But I want to do it this way round till the channel strip is built atleast.
The console style Mixer has been a dream of mine since long. And this is a part I want to experiment with. And I'll learn a lot more about plugin design in the process.
Once the channel strip is built, I do plan on looking at tracktion engine for the implementation of playlist, mixer and such basic features of a DAW.
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@pratitghosh You should watch this YouTube video. The guy built a DAW in a week using AI. Now I know you probably don't want to use AI, but it is worth a watch.
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@pratitghosh when you say DAW with a mixer, a
I'm thrown back into time to Sonic Syndicate Orion Pro. First DAW that I used
