Release roadmap

[bandithedoge]

0.1

• Implement all the most commonly used CLAP extensions
• Process note events and add synthesizer examples
• Properly document the API and write more examples, possibly a short tutorial/article
• Build for and test on Windows and macOS
• Make hard RT-capable plugins possible by removing mutexes
• Properly sync main and audio threads
• Parse features
• Avoid global variables
• Sample-accurate parameter automation
• Proper state serialization
• Think of a better name

0.2?

• Actual GUI (https://github.com/ypsvlq/wio)
  • Create one or more separate GUI backend integration repos, DVUI is a good starting point
  • Expose sample data to GUI (for visualizing signals)
• More formats
  • VST3 and AU (can just be https://github.com/free-audio/clap-wrapper for now)
  • Standalone executables (contribute more audio backends to wio?)
  • LV2
  • VCV Rack?
• Collect potential 3rd-party projects that extend zigplug (eg. GUI backends) – awesome-zigplug?.
• Look into statically linking as much as possible
• Support real MIDI (not just clap_event_note_t)
• Faust integration example?
• Support multiple plugin descriptors in one binary
• 64-bit sample processing
• User-defined state (de-)serialization (not just parameters)
• Presets

1.0

• Wait for Zig to reach 1.0

[JohnCorby]

im doing dvui wio integration rn, and @PowerUser64 is working on plugging into a faust generated code. i imagine when we're done bashing our heads against those walls we'll have something you could use or build off of

[bandithedoge]

Thanks @JohnCorby, I'm excited to see what you come up with. Are you planning on making it public soon? I'd love to see if I can contribute a bit.

[PowerUser64]

It'll be public at some point, yeah! I think we'll probably wait until we're satisfied with what we've got until we release it though, so it might be a bit before we do. I can make a comment here when it's available if you'd like!

[bandithedoge]

@PowerUser64 Please do, I'm very interested!

[JanBeelte]

@bandithedoge +1 for DVUI integration :-)

[PowerUser64]

For the record (I already communicated this to @bandithedoge), my plugin is public now: https://github.com/PowerUser64/tonebender. It's not done yet, but this is where you can find it.

The faust code itself is not public since I want to wait until v1 to release it, but everything else is there.