@andioak Did you figure this out?

@d-healey I just noticed that HISE has a filesystem class. Could I use HISE to make a batch-processing tool that would rename files with their peak levels? (I found a thread from 3 years ago where you said you didn't think it was suitable, but perhaps things have changed since then.)

@d-healey My only experience is writing a script in Lua for Kontakt Creator Tools which can search my filesystem for certain keywords and map the files it find by tokens in the filenames.

@d-healey Thank you; that is helpful. Would you make any recommendation to a novice such as myself on whether to learn HISE or JUCE?

@d-healey Thanks for the reply. Would I be able to measure 3 channels with this, and calculate and display the average of those values? Could I make the values persist, and be reset only when playback is started?

I just want to know that my goal is possible before spending the time it would take to learn how to do it.

I want to make a level meter VST3 plugin that reports the "true peak" level of 3 audio channels (left, right, and sidechain), and the average of those 3 peaks (add them together and divide by 3). I want the displayed peak levels to persist indefinitely, and reset to 0 every time playback is started.

I do not need any controls or graphic components in the plugin's UI -- all I want is a display of those 4 text values.

Is HISE well-suited to accomplishing this? I am currently trying to understand how to do this with JUCE, but I have close to zero programming experience. C++ seems to have an expansive syntax, some of which is difficult for me to grasp. Thus, I am wondering if HISE might offer an easier way to make this very simple plugin.