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clap-imgui
Minimal example of prototyping CLAP audio plugins using Dear ImGui as the user interface.
I and some other folks in the Rust audio community have put together some low-level bindings for the CLAP API: https://github.com/glowcoil/clap-sys
They're relatively straightforward due to the fact that CLAP is a simple, pure-C ABI, and there are already some fully functional plugins making use of them (e.g. https://github.com/robbert-vdh/nih-plug).
I and some other folks in the Rust audio community have put together some low-level bindings for the CLAP API: https://github.com/glowcoil/clap-sys
They're relatively straightforward due to the fact that CLAP is a simple, pure-C ABI, and there are already some fully functional plugins making use of them (e.g. https://github.com/robbert-vdh/nih-plug).
For anyone using c++, my declarative system has some amount of support for clap: https://github.com/celtera/avendish / https://celtera.github.io/avendish/
But unlike clap, targetting this also gives direct access to a few other environments, namely Max, Pd, ossia score, with the list hopefully growing.
Here is an example minimal plugin : https://github.com/celtera/avendish/blob/main/examples/Raw/M...
Note that unlike pretty much every other c/c++ plugin API, the plugin code does not need to include any header, everything is done through reflection of struct members at compile-time.
Here's a per-sample noise generator which uses a small library of pre-made ports: https://github.com/celtera/avendish/blob/main/examples/Helpe...
And a very naive buffer-based audio filter : https://github.com/celtera/avendish/blob/main/examples/Helpe...
UI is supported without relying on a specific UI library, only on a canvas painter concept which can then target Qt, NanoVG, and others to come: https://github.com/celtera/avendish/blob/main/examples/Helpe...
since it binds directly to audio APIs at compile time, it has pretty much zero code size in itself, the smallest plugin it generates for VST2 is around 7kb IIRC