# Creating an EQ plugin, Developers needed **URL:** \ **Category:** Audio Plugins\ **Created:** [November 5, 2018, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/creating-an-eq-plugin-developers-needed/30186 "2018-11-05T17:33:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Slushiimusic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@Slushiimusic](https://forum.juce.com/u/Slushiimusic)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/creating-an-eq-plugin-developers-needed/30186/1 "2018-11-05T17:33:13Z")
Trying to create an audio plugin for mac that is the equivalent to FL Studio’s Fruity Parametric EQ 2. would be for personal use only ---
**Author:** ![daniel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/daniel/32/790_2.png) [@daniel](https://forum.juce.com/u/daniel)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/creating-an-eq-plugin-developers-needed/30186/2 "2018-11-05T18:00:53Z")
I wrote something quite similar, since it’s for personal use, just grab it: > **[ffAudio/Frequalizer](https://github.com/ffAudio/Frequalizer)** > > Equalizer using JUCE new dsp module. Contribute to ffAudio/Frequalizer development by creating an account on GitHub. Note, the download packages are outdated, if you want the analyser part as well, build the source yourself (I’m about updating the packages, but setting up a Jenkins took longer than expected) ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/juce/original/2X/3/3fcf87ee20695014ee7af61b7924b3801ef0e82b.png) ---
**Author:** ![Slushiimusic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@Slushiimusic](https://forum.juce.com/u/Slushiimusic)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/creating-an-eq-plugin-developers-needed/30186/4 "2018-11-05T18:10:28Z")
i’m looking for the simplicity of the PEQ2 UI, and the colored bars signifying the frequencies, basically almost a carbon copy maybe with different colors ---
**Author:** ![daniel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/daniel/32/790_2.png) [@daniel](https://forum.juce.com/u/daniel)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/creating-an-eq-plugin-developers-needed/30186/5 "2018-11-05T18:17:14Z")
Have a look here: > You could return an image instead of a graph and modulate the colours from the magnitudes taken from `averager`… just a thought But sorry, I didn’t want to hog your thread 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Golitan11](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/golitan11/32/5433_2.png) [@Golitan11](https://forum.juce.com/u/Golitan11)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2018, 3:48am UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/creating-an-eq-plugin-developers-needed/30186/6 "2018-12-10T03:48:09Z")
Yesterday, I tried to run it but it didn’t work (using the latest JUCE 5.4.1 build in Visual Studio). To make it compile, I had to change the deprecated createParameter calls (and remove addParameterGroup) for createAndAddParameter instead (I can’t use the new constructor initialization because of the EQ band loop). However, when I run it, it crashes in FrequalizerAudioProcessorEditor::paint, see this stacktrace: ![Image%201](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/juce/original/2X/f/fe5bde6089db1b5e0a855790b7b300518e802592.png) It crashes because inputAnalyser and outputAnalyser in FrequalizerProcessor.cpp have no channels yet. In fact, the channels are only initialized when calling setupAnalyser in FrequalizerAudioProcessor::prepareToPlay. However, it seems like the paint method is called before this happens, and the paint method doesn’t seem to be called multiple times. To fix it, I preset the size of the averager in the constructor of Analyser. This time it launches, but I cannot see any EQ curve (only the handles). Also, when I try to set the input / output in the plugin, it crashes every time (last assert of AudioProcessor::setPlayConfigDetails). How can I make your EQ work? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![daniel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/daniel/32/790_2.png) [@daniel](https://forum.juce.com/u/daniel)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2018, 9:24am UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/creating-an-eq-plugin-developers-needed/30186/7 "2018-12-10T09:24:26Z")
Thanks for the report, that’s much appreciated! I knew I will have to update for the new AudioParameter API, so now I know, it will be a little bigger task. I hope I find the time in the evening, I’ll let you know here (sorry OP…) ---
**Author:** ![Golitan11](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/golitan11/32/5433_2.png) [@Golitan11](https://forum.juce.com/u/Golitan11)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2018, 11:58am UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/creating-an-eq-plugin-developers-needed/30186/8 "2018-12-10T11:58:23Z")
Much appreciated sir! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![daniel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/daniel/32/790_2.png) [@daniel](https://forum.juce.com/u/daniel)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/creating-an-eq-plugin-developers-needed/30186/9 "2018-12-12T16:56:53Z")
I just pushed an update to github, so it uses the new parameter classes. I also added a safety measure for the case if paint is called, before the dsp is setup. However, I couldn’t notice any problems on OSX/Logic… Can you please check with the new update? And report back in an github issue ideally, so we don’t spam the board here… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Golitan11](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/golitan11/32/5433_2.png) [@Golitan11](https://forum.juce.com/u/Golitan11)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 6:25pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/creating-an-eq-plugin-developers-needed/30186/10 "2018-12-12T18:25:04Z")
No problem, I will do this as soon as I can (this weekend). Thanks a lot! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![renu503](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@renu503](https://forum.juce.com/u/renu503)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/creating-an-eq-plugin-developers-needed/30186/12 "2019-08-02T15:03:56Z")
hello, I just cloned the code to my linux and OSX. But strangely, the OSX is working well, and linux is running slowly. Is it the problems at buffer? Thank you. BTW in linux, I use makefile, and in OSX, I use Xcode. ---
**Author:** ![daniel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/daniel/32/790_2.png) [@daniel](https://forum.juce.com/u/daniel)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/creating-an-eq-plugin-developers-needed/30186/13 "2019-08-02T21:18:28Z")
Thanks for checking it out. I didn’t test on linux yet, so I’m glad that it works at all 😉 But what I realise here on OSX as well, that in Logic it runs pretty smooth (even the debug version), but in my own host the analysers are stuck. So that might be related to juce hosting? (I mean that I might have to do something different to make it run in juce based hosts…) I will have to investigate. What host did you test on Linux? The JUCE AudioPluginHost or Tracktion or something else? EDIT: it was the bool flag in the analyser, that wasn’t wrapped in atomic (I assumed it wasn’t necessary with bool, but I learned something now) So this should be fixed now. Let me know, if that solves your issue… ---
**Author:** ![Slushiimusic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@Slushiimusic](https://forum.juce.com/u/Slushiimusic)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 4:26am UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/creating-an-eq-plugin-developers-needed/30186/14 "2019-08-03T04:26:12Z")
any way to completely replicate the ui of PEQ 2 ? ---
**Author:** ![renu503](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@renu503](https://forum.juce.com/u/renu503)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 4:38am UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/creating-an-eq-plugin-developers-needed/30186/15 "2019-08-03T04:38:35Z")
Thanks for your reply. Actually I tested on “raspberry pi and its audio card” and directly used the .exe which made from Makefile. I don’t catch your meaning of bool flag(newDataAvailable), speak more clearly, please. In the beginning, I supposed the problems were that it’s too much operations in the buffer since operations use lots of resources. I still have no idea what to do to refine the code. I would appreciate it if you have more advices for me. Thanks a lot. ---
**Author:** ![daniel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/daniel/32/790_2.png) [@daniel](https://forum.juce.com/u/daniel)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 11:28am UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/creating-an-eq-plugin-developers-needed/30186/16 "2019-08-03T11:28:55Z")
> [@renu503](#): > > I don’t catch your meaning of bool flag(newDataAvailable), speak more clearly, please. No problem, I fixed this in the github repository, so if you pull the latest version, you don’t have to change anything yourself. This is the fix: > Rationale: the bool flag is set by the analysing thread and read by the gui, so there is the chance of a race condition. My naive (wrong) thinking was, there is no way, that setting a single bit would not be atomic, but it had an effect, so the problem I could reproduce went away by adding the std::atomic wrapper around the bool flag. Let me know, if that works now in the rPI… I haven’t run my own software on that device yet, but I am curious… ---
**Author:** ![renu503](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@renu503](https://forum.juce.com/u/renu503)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/creating-an-eq-plugin-developers-needed/30186/17 "2019-08-03T17:54:52Z")
It’s a bit better now! But it’s still not pretty smooth. May it be the problem between VST3 and .exe file? Or Is there other ways to optimize code? Thank you. You are such a patient person! ---
**Author:** ![daniel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/daniel/32/790_2.png) [@daniel](https://forum.juce.com/u/daniel)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 6:01pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/creating-an-eq-plugin-developers-needed/30186/18 "2019-08-03T18:01:35Z")
That’s very kind of you. Unfortunately I have no specific idea, what to change. When I find anything, I will add it in the repository. ---
**Author:** ![daniel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/daniel/32/790_2.png) [@daniel](https://forum.juce.com/u/daniel)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/creating-an-eq-plugin-developers-needed/30186/19 "2019-08-03T18:06:43Z")
> [@Slushiimusic](#): > > any way to completely replicate the ui of PEQ 2 ? That’s definitely possible, however: - what is the purpose to replicate an existing plugin? Why not using the existing instead? - if you plan to distribute that clone, I don’t know if there is a design patent or any other protection in place. In any case it is not nice to do that… - if you want to learn, how to do it, just take the code and get your hands dirty. If you get stuck, just ask… - if you want me to code that, PM me and I can give you a quote, but it won’t be cheap, since that takes some time…