AudioProcessorParameters displaying only Normalized values

Audio Plugins
1

Hi to everyone :)

     I'm new to Juce and I'm making some test with the AudioProcessorParameters of Juce4. In my audio plugin I created a couple of params using the createAndAddParameter function with a custom range and ValueToText function:

auto CustomTextValue = [](float val)->String
{
    String vRawString = String::formatted("%2.1f", val);
    vRawString.append("dB", 2);
    return vRawString;
};

NormalisableRange<float> vdBRange = NormalisableRange<float>(-20.f, +20.f);

mpValueTreeState->createAndAddParameter(
    "dBParam", 
    "dBParam",
    "dBParam",
    vdBRange,
    vdBRange.snapToLegalValue(0.f),
    CustomTextValue,
    nullptr);


Everything seems working fine but when I change the parameter through an automation or a widget i see only the normalized value in the DAW Automation section or in the Widget ValueText; I expected insted to see of the value in the vdBRange (-20.f - +20.f) formatted with CustomTextValue I passed to parameter constructor.

Someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Thank you so much :)

 


 

2

Which host is it? It's up to the host whether it actually chooses to call the value->text conversion function, and probably some of them don't.

3

Hi Jules, thanks for writing, I'm testing on REAPER; anyway I don't think it's related to DAW since all other VST plugins loaded in Reaper show not-normalized range with pre and postfix where needed.

4

They might use VSTXML to scale the ranges. Surely setting a breakpoint in the relvant getParameter and getParameterText (or the AudioParameter equivalents) methods will show you if Reaper calls them?

5

Results are inconsistent but it seems JUCE is working as expected.

I've tried Waves, NI, Xfer Records with VST and AU.

I've seen the value returns depends on internal implementation.

- So I did get for example values such as 600.0 for Threshold for Waves plug-in as AU

- Xfer Records OTT however showed for depth value of 100.0 for depth for example under AU, but for VST i got values between 0.0 - 1.0

I've never seen textual representation during dragging. only for static states.

So it seems best would be to ask Cockos (REAPER) to improve their readings ;)