Malt - Multiband Sidechain Plugin (WIP)

(^ Mockup design, not actual product)

This was intended to be a MIDI-triggered multiband-sidechain plugin, where each band can have a different curve, attack/release times.

However, the nih-plug framework is not mature enough and I've run into a lot of issues:

• Text input does not work on Windows (robbert-vdh/nih-plug#154, RustAudio/baseview#192)
  • the "windows_keyboard_workaround" workaround in nih_plug_egui doesn't fix the issue
• Unable to hide/lock mouse cursor when dragging a knob (robbert-vdh/nih-plug#179)
• CLAP plugin randomly crashes when changing latency (robbert-vdh/nih-plug#177)
• Opening/Closing GUI causes a memory leak and eventually causes out-of-memory (robbert-vdh/nih-plug#173)

Actual progress

(^ Very quick-and-dirty UI for development)

The logic and features are all done, all that's left is the UI.

Recreating the mockup UI is practically impossible in egui, unless I decide to hard-code the locations of each element (But since I'm using a resizable window, hard-coding isn't feasible). The layout system is too inflexible and limited for dynamic layouts like in the mockup.

I could use egui_flex, but it causes a weird flashing effect when resizing the window so I'm still undecided on this.

In the future I might decide to rewrite the entire GUI using Iced instead. TBC.