I am working on a project focused on developing plugins for controlling hardware effects. This allows us to have the best from both worlds: Analogue warmth and digital control capabilities like automation and preset recall. But I am facing a problem with implementing serial communication in JUCE. I need to send and receive information from microcontrollers for two reasons:
Updating the parameters on the hardware effects processor for automation and preset recall (Send)
Updating the state of the signal (monitoring) coming from the hardware in the plugin GUI. (Receive) *And also I am planning to update the state of the knobs in the GUI according to the position of the physical knobs in the hardware equipment.
Does JUCE have a multiplataform serial port class that provides easy control for bidirectional serial communication (in real time).
I would appreciate any examples, libraries and references, and I hope this material would be also useful for the rest of the developer community.
I banged my head against the wall with this one for a couple days. Inside of @jordanh’s nuance app there is a nice serial devicer manager he created. Only issue is last time I checked it wasn’t working on El Capitan, and I don’t believe it’s cross platform to windows.
I don’t think that the JUCE team has much interest in implementing a cross platform serial communication class, but if you do end up getting a good solution working, please share!
Ah, those classes were based on some code from graffiti on the forums from back in the day - I ripped out all the Windows stuff as I didn’t need it at the time, and updated a few things to get the code working with a newer version of JUCE.
That manager class was really just a helper, and a little too specific to the application I was writing at the time. As you know, I was basically teaching myself C++ and writing this app for some PhD research. Wasn’t really made for public consumption ha
@Jake_Penn I just got back from tour in Europe, if you want to grab a beer one of these days and catch up, we can look into some of the serial stuff. Been a while man!
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