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?
