wdl-ol
iPlug2
| wdl-ol | iPlug2 | |
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| 1 | 4 | |
| 933 | 1,814 | |
| - | 2.5% | |
| 0.0 | 9.4 | |
| over 2 years ago | 7 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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wdl-ol
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quite some time ago, i used to write audio plugins. i'd started by using WDL-OL[1], but quickly ended up re-writing most of the front-end code to use Direct2D/Cocoa + OpenGL, as i began to run into limitations with the rendering capabilities. in time, i ended up rewriting most of the framework in order to take advantage of VST3 and AAX's more.. separated APIs.
Steinberg did some really good work with the design of VST3, and it's frustrating that it never really took off. it's the only plugin API that can actually guarantee sample-accuracy. the initial design required UI and processor separation.
it turns out that latter point seems to unstick many developers. contrasted with AAX (which i'm also keen on), AAX allows for even more modular architectures (which you'd need to operate around, if you wanted to use their DSP hardware), however, AVID - perhaps learning from VST3's mistakes - made "singleton" architectures allowable straight away.
a subsequent release of VST3 allowed for singleton architectures, given that so many people seemed to be put off with the (imo slightly) increased complexity, but it was too late. at least until recently, people are still writing VST2 plugins, and VST3 support across DAWs is not as extensive as VST2's.
[1] - https://github.com/olilarkin/wdl-ol
iPlug2
- Is Steinberg a monopoly on the VST and SDK market?
- Ask HN: What are 100K dollar ideas but not million dollar ideas?
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Is there a DAW or VST that can stream input from over the network (REST request)?
I know you've mentioned loathing c++ but here is an easy library that combines some web elements into the whole vst world: https://github.com/iPlug2/iPlug2
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does anyone know a tutorial on how to create a midi program?
If what you want is to make VST plugins, you're going to need a lot more. I've used the iplug/iplug2 framework: https://github.com/iPlug2/iPlug2/tree/master/Examples/IPlugMidiEffect https://github.com/iPlug2/iPlug2
What are some alternatives?
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.
dlfcn-win32 - Official dlfcn-win32 repo
zrythm - a highly automated and intuitive digital audio workstation - official mirror
Manhunt.PluginMH - Free camera, first person mode and more!
vst3sdk - VST 3 Plug-In SDK
awesome-musicdsp - A curated list of my favourite music DSP and audio programming resources
quickjs-emscripten - Safely execute untrusted Javascript in your Javascript, and execute synchronous code that uses async functions
LuaScript - Notepad++ plugin for Lua scripting capabilities
sonobus - Source code for SonoBus, a real-time network audio streaming collaboration tool.
surge - Synthesizer plug-in (previously released as Vember Audio Surge)
audiogridder - DSP servers using general purpose computers and networks