Audio Missing Features

[Drew3296]

1. VU Meters are missing. When you play footage or music on the timeline, you have no clue how loud your audio is.
2. VST plugin support would be nice. This would instantly expand the audio effects library and would mean you could stop working on it for other more critical features

[Domica]

@Drew3296 VU meters: yes, and mostly already here. The level-meter primitive is in ui/primitives, playback already has the sample stream, and what is missing is computing RMS/peak per track and publishing it to the timeline header and the monitor. A day or two of work, and no new dependency.

@jub0t Just a note. VST: a much bigger proposition, and probably not the right shape for this project. VST3 is a C++ SDK with its own licence, needs per-platform window embedding, plugin sandboxing (a plugin that crashes should not take Concat down), and a real-time-safe audio thread. That is I think months of work for several people, not weeks. Also licencing can open a discussion.

If there are future plans for a similar integration, maybe CLAP is the modern open-standard alternative with an MIT licence and a much simpler hosting story; it is what Bitwig, u-he and Reaper build against now. LV2 is the Linux-native option, though it does not travel to macOS and Windows as cleanly.

If the goal is just "more audio effects without a team writing them", the cheaper/simpler path is what Concat already does: WGSL shaders for picture and a small catalogue of built-in audio filters (which could also be expanded). Neither VST nor CLAP can change that overnight.