No GUI for clap plugin in Bitwig

[greatest-ape]

A report has come in of no GUI appearing in Bitwig when using the CLAP plugin.

[tank-trax]

I can confirm this, clap shows in Reaper, not in Bitwig

[TjShredder]

I can confirm this as well. VST shows the GUI...

[greatest-ape]

The latest release should now work on Windows, but unfortunately not yet on macOS.

[tank-trax]

still no GUI in Bitwig for the CLAP on my end v8.4 on Linux Mint 21.1

[greatest-ape]

Alright, annoying. For some reason Bitwig doesn’t seem to play nice with baseview / iced_baseview.

[TjShredder]

You should report it also to Bitwig, they want CLAP to be a selling point and might help you to sort it out...
Its all new and exciting...

[tank-trax]

good idea and I agree

[porzione]

Maybe related free-audio/clap#323

[greatest-ape]

Yeah, that looks related.

[greatest-ape]

If any of you have the time, could you please try this build out and see if it works?

OctaSine-tmp-2024-03-16-macOS.zip
OctaSine-tmp-2024-03-16-Windows.zip

[josb]

FYI https://nakst.gitlab.io/tutorial/clap-part-3.html shows .set_parent not just storing the host window pointer, but also setting it as the plugin window parent by calling [parentView addSubview:mainView].

Edit: I now realize the open_parented() call in show() is what effectively ends up doing the same thing as the above example, except here it happens in the show() call because open_parented() both creates and shows the plugin window. Hope my understanding is correct.

[josb]

Your tmp build gives the CouldNotReadMetaDataException during scan (but clearly some versions did pass the scan before). This is with Sonoma 14.4. Maybe it's an OS issue?
Installed using

cd ~/Downloads
unzip OctaSine-tmp-2024-03-16-macOS.zip
sudo cp -r OctaSine/CLAP/OctaSine\ v0.9.clap /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/CLAP
sudo xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/CLAP/OctaSine\ v0.9.clap

But! Your work-2024-03-09 branch built here does show the GUI. 👍

[greatest-ape]

Yes, you’re right about open_parented, so it’s just a way to try to make it work with the baseview API.

Nice! Does CPU use drop again when the plugin window is closed/hidden? It was an issue previously that it did not, because the window wasn’t properly cleaned up.

[tank-trax]

I can build the latest VST2 but not the Clap as my rust is not recent enough using Debian 12

[josb]

Thanks @greatest-ape, for confirming my understanding around open_parented().

I'll look into the CPU behavior soon and will report back. Looking at recent commits, latest iced_baseview is supposed to have addressed this.

[greatest-ape]

I can build the latest VST2 but not the Clap as my rust is not recent enough using Debian 12

Ok! Are you using Debian-packaged Rust? My current rust version policy is latest stable and I will probably not change it. I was happy to be able to get off nightly Rust a while back.

[greatest-ape]

Thanks @greatest-ape, for confirming my understanding around open_parented().

I'll look into the CPU behavior soon and will report back. Looking at recent commits, latest iced_baseview is supposed to have addressed this.

Ok, thanks!

I’ve switched to a fork of iced_baseview since I don’t want to upgrade to a more recent iced version yet, since it causes various crashes, bugs and performance issues that I don’t want to spend time on ironing out.

[RustoMCSpit]

can confirm too lol

[RustoMCSpit]

this is still broken on linux mint

[greatest-ape]

this is still broken on linux mint

Ok, even on v0.9.1?

[RustoMCSpit]

this is still broken on linux mint

Ok, even on v0.9.1?

yes

[greatest-ape]

Ok :(

[josb]

Update: OctaSine-v0.9.1-macOS works fine on macOS 15.2 with Bitwig Studio 5.3 Beta 3.

[greatest-ape]

Update: OctaSine-v0.9.1-macOS works fine on macOS 15.2 with Bitwig Studio 5.3 Beta 3.

Great!