Plogue Bidule, anyone?

Bidule is excellent and the devs are very friendly and helpful if you have any questions. It does all processing at audio rate, and there is no differentiation between ‘signals’ and ‘control rate’ like in Max, Reaktor, Pd, SuperCollider etc (though there is now a ‘discrete’ version which has similar features). Also none of that nonsense about order of connection or object placement having an effect on the patch. It’s missing some useful QoL features like having canvas viewable controls (every value slider or number box opens in its own floating window which can get messy), but the ability to run patches in a VST inside another program is very powerful and makes up for the quirks. Also the spectral processing is much more accessible than the equivalent in Max.

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