What is it with Tracktion and JUCE plugins?

[aMUSEd]

It seems, ironically, at the moment Tracktion is at its most buggy with JUCE based plugins? I would have expected a JUCE based host to support plugins created with its own framework much better. Is this some sort of clash between JUCE versions? For example all the Valhalla plugins and GRM Tools plugins crash T5 the moment you try and resize them. DDMF LP10 does the same, and so does IIEQ pro, which also crashes when you try and turn on the analyser. And so does the Mangle. In fact the only one I've found with a resizable interface that doesn't crash so far is The Drop - perhaps that is a clue? Is this connected with certain JUCE versions? I know from Sean that the Valhalla ones were coded using the latest stable release - 3.0.5. Not sure about the others. Maybe The Drop is doing (or using) something different?

Previously we had a problem with blank GUIs for most of these same JUCE based plugins - that was fixed a few versions ago but now we have this problem.

btw I get none of these problems in Bitwig Studio which is also, at least partly, JUCE based.

[valhallasound]

In fact the only one I've found with a resizable interface that doesn't crash so far is The Drop - perhaps that is a clue? Is this connected with certain JUCE versions? I know from Sean that the Valhalla ones were coded using the latest stable release - 3.0.5. Not sure about the others. Maybe The Drop is doing (or using) something different?

Just to clarify, 3.0.5 was the last stable release for MY plugins. I have to freeze at some point, in order to get things out the door. I did a few test builds with 3.0.8, but ran into some issues that I didn't want to track down (the beta testing of the latest plugins took over a year). Andrew Simpler / Cytomic tends to put a fair amount of his custom code into his plugins, while I tend to stay closer to the stock Juce framework.

Sean Costello

[aMUSEd]

OK we're on T6 now, about time this bug was fixed.