JUCE for graphics / music visualization?

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I’ve created a prototype for a music visualizer using a C++ library openFrameworks.

I want to now build a very simple standalone application around it with some basic DAW features (MIDI / audio track import, transport controls, parameter controls) and am considering JUCE for this.

  1. Is this a good idea (to incorporate JUCE for this) or should I keep using openFrameworks?

  2. Is it possible to import my openFrameworks work into a JUCE project?

  3. If I use JUCE and skip openFrameworks altogether, is it practical to use JUCE for this? I see JUCE uses OpenGL. However, openFrameworks is an OpenGL wrapper, which abstracted away my need to learn OpenGL and simply focus on C++, so I’d rather not learn OpenGL since openFrameworks works well for my needs.

Thanks in advance!

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  1. JUCE can use OpenGL, but you don’t have to. it uses the native software renderer if you don’t build around the OpenGLRenderer classes.

no idea about the other two questions.

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Is the native software renderer fast enough for real time music visualization? Basically I want to render a bunch of 2D shapes and designs

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Try it and see. Use your profiler to see if you need to optimize it, switch to a different renderer (openGl) or use a different framework altogether. No one but you knows how complicated the graphics are that you’re trying to render.