Hello everybody,
I am making a vst synth which I want modular, with modulators (envelopes, lfos…) that can connect to oscillators, filters… I am wondering what is the best way to do this… I also want to be able to save or reload the plugin state.
I built the synth using juce classes, in particular SynthetiserVoice. Each synthetiser voice is using an oscillator, and I can add a filter, the envelopes… but I want to be able to connect an envelope to the filter or the amplifier, or disconnect it. So I thought it would be a good idea to use an AudioProcessorGraph living in the SynthetiserVoice, but I am not sure if the AudioProcessor can be modulated internally or if it’s a good idea (my envelopes would be AudioProcessor ??).
Also the SynthetiserVoice is using :
renderNextBlock (AudioBuffer< float > &outputBuffer, int startSample, int numSamples)
While the AudioProcessor is using
processBlock (AudioBuffer< float > &, MidiBuffer &)
so I am not able to pass the startSample and numSample to my AudioProcessorGraph and AudioProcessors if I use this design, or am I missing something here ?
I have been looking at https://github.com/mtytel/helm which I found interesting, with the MOPO
and http://www.martin-finke.de/blog/articles/audio-plugins-011-envelopes/, which talks about signals and slots, but maybe there is a simpler approach or some Juce built in feature that I am unaware of ?
So my questions are 
:
- can I use an AudioProcessor or an AudioProcessorGraph within a SynthetiserVoice, and if yes, please share the magic trick,
- is it a good idea, in the first place, to make an AudioProcessor an envelope generator? I guess it is not intended to be one, what do you think ?
- what approach would you use for this problem, using another library ? Which one ? I don’t want to reinvent the wheel…
I have seen very little content on how to handle internal modulations in juce so any advice is appreciated.
Thanks.
Phil