VU Meter to fast (glitchy no envelope follower) and repainting all graphics

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As it could be built into the framework easily

It’s really not very easy at all! Communicating effectively between the audio thread and the GUI is not a solved problem - different approaches will be better for different things.

Here’s a start:

Lock-free queues and visualization of data

Hello guys and @timur ! Something has been bothering me for a while, and I told that to a few guys who have not been able to answer my questions. I think that the lock-free queue isn’t the best structure for doing basic communication between an audio thread and the UI. In the past, I did code a meter for JUCE, and also a spectrum analyzer. In both cases, they work thanks to a buffer, which is shared by the audio + UI threads. The audio thread put the data inside in the processBlock functions a…