vst3sdk VS miniaudio

But you don't have only Linux, you have (and probably first) OSX and/or Windows and then Linux, and you need an API that works well in that case. Being an in-process dll/so plugin, while fraught with perils gets you to avoid other issues (state, health, restart, identity, etc.)

Also sometimes you don't have a choice, but have to make a dll, for example:

https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vst3sdk or https://ae-plugins.docsforadobe.dev/ and many others. Sometimes it's the only viable choice.

(I wish most have used grpc/flatbuffers/whatever to communicate, but then every RPC call have to be checked/retried/handled, and or shared memory well handled, with (?) locks, etc. - not a trivial thing for someone who is deeply specialized in making a very good effect/renderer/etc instead of dealing with this extra complexity on top).

Yeah, you can use nordaudio which wraps PortAudio which has support for every major audio back-end. As for writing a VST you may have to find a way to wrap or interface with Steinberg's SDK. MIDI support is possible by using an RtMIDI wrapper, which I haven't linked because there are a few of them out there of varying quality and I don't know which is best because I just use ALSA directly for my purposes.

You can read the VST3 SDK manual for yourself here https://steinbergmedia.github.io/vst3\_doc/vstsdk/index.html and access the source here: https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vst3sdk.

You have to use the steinberger SDK to make a vst

https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vst3sdk

But audio plugins come in many formats.

https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vst3sdk#build-the-examples-on-linux

You can do VST3 as GPL. They dual license it. Lots of legalese to read but definitely an option. https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vst3sdk/issues

Unfortunately, I can't currently capture any videos (I added miniaudio.h to play back the Jurassic Park theme song) since I had to move my mom into my home (she's getting a divorce from her narcissistic husband soon and the guy lost his marbles and locked her out of her own home) and it's late at night currently.

miniaudio - so far the best entry in cross platform audio. It is a stack allowing to use device alone, decoders and mixers, or node based engine for sophisticated audio processing. Extensible where it should be. Written in C, so there are no creature comforts of having C++. Aways can be wrapped to get advantage of RAII.

So, I wanna implement this library to the source engine. Is that possible? And also, since source is based on SDL, is it possible for me to implement Nuklear on my source game?

The most straightforward lib for this is miniaudio. It's straightforward,l to use and easy to integrate into a build system.

You give little clues what this is… so cl-miniaudio defines CFFI bindings to https://miniaud.io/ which is "an audio playback and capture library for C and C++. It's made up of a single source file, has no external dependencies and is released into the public domain." and is cross-platform.

Get the update on GitHub: https://github.com/mackron/miniaudio

* Miniaudio - A single header file audio library https://miniaud.io/

Both (actually, not just three systems) cross-platform.

For their design and cross-platform support they make for great bases for Go libraries, unlike most C code out there.

I've used this library before: https://miniaud.io/