Cardinal VS wam-openstudio

> It’s haven’t bought any Modular’s yet but I’m really looking forward to getting into other on the new year.

http://cardinal.kx.studio

https://vcvrack.com/

The former is libre and gratis, runs as a standalone or plugin and in the browser!! and is based on the latter.

Ther former has a libre and gratis standalone version, the plugin version is non-gratis.

I would look at Cardinal in preference to VCV Rack.

Looked here? You can also download the tar, its like the zip. Follow the instructions how to open it and then install.

I am trying to use rather https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal than VCV and I wonder if I could do a similar thing.

There’s also Cardinal, a free plug-in version of VCV which is very good: https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal

https://cardinal.kx.studio/ https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/

We started writing a web-based DAW prototype that relies on the Webaudio Modules version 2.0 (a standard for plugins/hosts on the Web, that can be developed using a large variety of languages/approaches). For the moment, the DAW has very limited features but 1) Each track is written as an AudioWorklet, and sample accurate processing is being done for playing each track. That means, that from the processor part of each track player, we can schedule events (automation, midi, etc) to plugins. We can also loop and edit the audio track with a sample accuracy (this is not done yet, but everything is ready for that. We will add this soon). 2) Each track is associated with a plugin chain. Plugins are WAM plugins (webaudiomodules), and can be automated. 3) There are quite a lot of plugins already available in the WAM format, most effects, instruments. The WAM distribution comes with a set of example plugins + the FAUST IDE can generate WAM2 plugins in seconds. All running DSP in WASM. We (WAM designers, implementers and maintainers) can be reached on a slack channel (#webaudiomodules, subchannel of the #webaudio channel. Get incitation here: https://web-audio-slackin.herokuapp.com/

The WebAudioModules distro is 4 GitHub repos, it is also available as npm modules. (https://github.com/webaudiomodules, start by building the wam-example one and run the examples). You can find some presentations on youtube (such as: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G3we8dikq8).

DAW prototype (should be included soon in the wam-example repo): Picture : https://i.ibb.co/mBdNGqk/WAM2-DAW.jpg online version: https://wam-openstudio.vidalmazuy.fr/, current repo (work in progress, as I said, this work is active and we do plan to add all missing functionnalities the upcoming months) https://github.com/TER-M1/wam-openstudio

There are also professional, commercial DAWs, not open source ones, such as https://ampedstudio.com/ that is also capable of loading WAM plugins, and is developed using the same approach as our DAW proto (host as AW), bandlab.com or soundtrap.com.

Michel