@icedquinn I once used an old freeware program just called "VST Host" but despite on paper being just a thing to connect a Klon-type distortion plugin to an amp sim, the user has the option to record the raw output of whatever comes out. And so I ended up getting the best high gain guitar tone not from Studio One or Reaper or Amplitube or a real practice amp, but a bunch of old free plugins in a sort of VST sandbox.

I feel like the private equity firm that started chewing on Ultimate-Guitar and Musescore and Audacity understands this and is trying to transform the latter in this direction. The problem is that IMO any community drama and old cruft could've been sidestepped by building up from a lower level than an audio editor.

Idk where I'm going with the above, but a "Dear Imgui/Nuklear for Music Production" would be sick.