World-Class VST3/CLAP Plugins with FAUST + JUCE: The DSP Layer Is the Quality Layer
"Better than JUCE" is the wrong question — analog quality lives in the DSP algorithm layer, not the wrapper: anti-aliasing of nonlinearities (oversampling + ADAA), circuit-accurate Wave Digital Filters, and minimal voiced-by-ear algorithms. Plain JUCE gives the blocks, not the algorithms. Here is a hybrid FAUST (or Cmajor) + JUCE + chowdsp_wdf stack shipping VST3 + CLAP from one codebase, a license-verified free-DSP catalog, and the acceptance battery that makes agent-authored DSP trustworthy.