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Top 23 C++ Vst Projects
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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.
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Project mention: 24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-07-02
> Ok dude, you obviously never recorded anything.
https://ardour.org/ is my website.
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Project mention: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-11
I love how windows-linux discussion is populated by DAW/VST incompatibility. I'm still new to the industry, and therefore also open minded about daw/plugins.
I actually had good experience with setting up yabridge, it could have worked for me I think. But the elephant in the room is that many big commercial plugins use JUCE as a framework, and the recent release of JUCE (JUCE8) just broke compatibility with wine and seem to be sabotaging wine-based usage completely, and are not considering going back at the moment.
https://forum.juce.com/t/juce8-direct2d-wine-yabridge/64298/...
https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge/issues/386
There are patches based on binary diffs to JUCE7, but it is just so much pain to simply run the commonest plugins in the field :/
So I'm now kind of stuck between using windows with commercial plugins or use linux with mainly smaller scale alternatives (although there are good ones: lsp, decent sampler, cardinal, surge)
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Project mention: Show HN: Contrapunk – Real-time counterpoint harmony from guitar input, in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-04
Nicely done! I saw you're building a cloud version so wanted to refer the excellent https://github.com/sonosaurus/sonobus which you might be able to integrate. All the best!
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DawDreamer
Digital Audio Workstation with Python; VST instruments/effects, parameter automation, FAUST, JAX, Warp Markers, and JUCE processors
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airwave
Airwave is a WINE-based VST bridge, that allows for the use of Windows 32- and 64-bit VST 2.4 audio plugins with Linux VST hosts
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Vaporizer2
Vaporizer2 hybrid wavetable additive / subtractive VST / AU / AAX synthesizer / sampler workstation plugin
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RenderMan
Command line C++ and Python VSTi Host library with MFCC, FFT, RMS and audio extraction and .wav writing.
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ai-dj
AI music generation for live performance - Standalone (Ableton Link) + VST3/AU. 8 tracks, 9 AI models. It occasionally hallucinates. Not a song generator - you still have to do the work. Stay human.
Project mention: Planning a Creative Challenge for OBSIDIAN Neural - Early Interest Check | dev.to | 2025-11-30The core plugin is free and open-source on GitHub
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
C++ Vst discussion
C++ Vst related posts
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24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense
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Ableton Live MCP
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Ardour – Free and open-source digital audio workstation
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Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief
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Show HN: AOO – real-time audio streaming and messaging
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Yabridge: Transparently Use Windows VST2, VST3 and Clap Plugins on Linux
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Vst projects in C++? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | olive | 9,126 |
| 2 | JUCE | 8,955 |
| 3 | ardour | 5,340 |
| 4 | yabridge | 4,151 |
| 5 | helio-sequencer | 3,559 |
| 6 | dexed | 3,564 |
| 7 | NeuralNote | 3,088 |
| 8 | sonobus | 2,195 |
| 9 | DawDreamer | 1,321 |
| 10 | dragonfly-reverb | 1,154 |
| 11 | Camomile | 989 |
| 12 | master_me | 751 |
| 13 | airwave | 585 |
| 14 | Vaporizer2 | 582 |
| 15 | ADLplug | 527 |
| 16 | amsynth | 506 |
| 17 | avendish | 488 |
| 18 | RenderMan | 398 |
| 19 | zam-plugins | 322 |
| 20 | OB-Xd | 270 |
| 21 | ai-dj | 253 |
| 22 | sushi | 182 |
| 23 | aeolus_plugin | 169 |
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