How difficult is it to code a VST Plug-in?

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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.

  • I've heard a lot of good stuff about the JUCE framework which tackles GUI and all the heavy boilerplate code for you. Might be mistaken, never researched it myself. But I do know some popular modern VSTs are written with JUCE, for example Helm. Their site claims Korg Gadget is written with JUCE too, and that UVI use JUCE for the GUI code.

  • Camomile

    An audio plugin with Pure Data embedded that allows to load and to control patches

  • There is a project called camomile where you can run a Pd patch as a VST with built in support for building a GUI within the patch and integration with basic DAW stuff like BPM sync.

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