DPF
DISTRHO Plugin Framework (by DISTRHO)
| DPF | Fundamental | |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | 2 | |
| 588 | 225 | |
| 1.7% | 0.0% | |
| 7.4 | 7.1 | |
| 17 days ago | 24 days ago | |
| C++ | C | |
| ISC License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
DPF
Posts with mentions or reviews of DPF.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-18.
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Audio plugin developmento with DPF: first plugin
DPF, short name for Distrho Plugin Framework, is a framework for building audio plugins in C++, compared to JUCE is smaller and more "raw", but there's no commercial licensing or limitation, also it supports open formats like LADSPA and LV2. It has support for Linux and Windows, here I will assume you're using Linux, so some commands may differ in Windows.
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Basic knowledge about music production on Linux
For crossplatform plugin building - consider checking out https://github.com/DISTRHO/DPF
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Declarative, non-intrusive, compile-time C++ reflection for audio plug-ins
Re 1: Why not create a DPF wrapper for this and have DPF create the ladspa/dssi/vst2/vst3/lv2 for you? -> https://github.com/DISTRHO/DPF
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How to get started with building a plugin that can work on other platforms?
Nice to see you are interested in making audio plugins. Especially with LV2 support. OK, you can do LV2 plugin programming from scratch (like I did). The LV2 book https://lv2plug.in/book/ is a good starting point. But I would recommend the use of a plugin framework like DPF https://github.com/DISTRHO/DPF instead.
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I'm developing a basic sample player plugin called Drops.
I use DPF as a plugin framework so any wayland stuff should come to that. I have no clue how to implement such features. I'm not a real programmer. I only act as one on the internet.
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Develop a LV2 plugin
Alternatively you could look at using DPF to make the plugin: https://github.com/DISTRHO/DPF
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Best languages to learn for making lightweight plugin effects and instruments with their own wrappers?
There are free (as far as licensing goes) alternatives such as DPF, but you will be doing a lot more of your own legwork with this system as not as much is provided for you.
Fundamental
Posts with mentions or reviews of Fundamental.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-19.
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Another giveaway 🙂
Vult: Vult Modules Free (https://modlfo.github.io/VultModules/) Bypass (Free) Caudal (Free) Disjoint (Free) Flux (Free) Jorus Knobs (Free) Lateralus (Free) Nitrous (Free) OpulusMicro Send (Free) Tangents (Free) Wolv Valley: Valley (https://valleyaudio.github.io) Plateau VCV: VCV Recorder Recorder VCV: VCV Fundamental (https://vcvrack.com/Fundamental) CV Mix Delay Fade Gates LFO Logic Quantizer Scope Wavetable LFO VCV: VCV Core Audio 2 Geodesics: Geodesics (https://www.pyer.be/geodesics.html) BlackHoles Branes Entropia Fate Ions Pulsars Torus chowdsp: ChowDSP (https://github.com/jatinchowdhury18/ChowDSP-VCV) Credit
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Declarative, non-intrusive, compile-time C++ reflection for audio plug-ins
- ditto for all the VCV algorithms : https://github.com/VCVRack/Fundamental/tree/v1/src
etc etc, there's a couple hundred of those, which always depend on some API and are thus not easily portable across environments.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing DPF and Fundamental you can also consider the following projects:
JUCE - JUCE is an open-source cross-platform C++ application framework for desktop and mobile applications, including VST, VST3, AU, AUv3, LV2 and AAX audio plug-ins.
avendish - declarative polyamorous cross-system intermedia objects
JUCE - The JUCE cross-platform C++ framework, with DISTRHO/KXStudio specific changes
vst3sdk - VST 3 Plug-In SDK
LitterPower - Source Code for Litter Power
BogaudioModules - Modules for VCV Rack.
essentia - C++ library for audio and music analysis, description and synthesis, including Python bindings
ninjas2 - Rewrite of Ninjas sample slicer
q - C++ Library for Audio Digital Signal Processing