Show HN: Teapodo (Lightweight Audio Editor) Now Supports VST/AU Plugins

- Glad it felt smooth and fast to you, that's exactly what we are striving for. - For the plugin list issue, yes, we also noticed that before release, we are planning to add plugin search/filter in the next iteration. - On wave editing (and potentially spectrum analysis), we had some ideas around this, but we aren't able to fully commit to these yet (we are a very small team). I see your point and I think we will think more carefully about how we present the main selling point of Teapodo in the future (same goes for the "lightweight" part). - Vertical zoom and grouping clips: these also came up when using it internally, so we will also look into these soon.

Again, really appreciate your feedback!

Plugin host in Teapodo is done in two main modules: - The Teapodo audio engine provided "plugin slots" for the application to mount plugin instances to (in a thread safe way), which is written in Rust - The plugin format parsers to understand each plugin formats (e.g. VST3, AU) and create plugin instances from, which is written in C++ and is just a thin wrapper around JUCE

We did think about building our own plugin format parsers from scratch, but since we are really small (only 2 devs) we ended up using an existing solution for now. Maybe we will come around and do it at some point (I certainly hope we could!).

As for releasing the source code, that's definitely a possible option. We've seen some interest in the implementation of the project, and we will start by writing about it soon, so stay tuned!