Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems. Learn more →
Nih-plug Alternatives
Similar projects and alternatives to nih-plug
-
-
InfluxDB
InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
CodeRabbit
CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.
-
-
slint
Slint is an open-source declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, JavaScript, or Python apps.
-
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.
-
-
-
-
-
-
vst-rs
Discontinued VST 2.4 API implementation in rust. Create plugins or hosts. Previously rust-vst on the RustDSP group.
-
loopers
Loopers is graphical live looper, written in Rust, designed for ease of use and rock-solid stability
-
-
-
-
SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
nih-plug discussion
nih-plug reviews and mentions
- Loudness War Winner
-
Write your business logic with Rust, Empowered by Rinf for Native Performance Apps
Super cool. Any experience doing audio/synthesis/DSP work with this in a Flutter app? It would be particularly awesome if this enabled building VST plugins with Flutter and one of the Rust crates for VSTs (like NIH-plug or similar).
-
A writeup on my journey so far developing PCMG synthesizer! A couple interesting titbits about my frustrations with WASM target.
Looks nice! Rust really is a perfect fit for real-time audio software. At work we also use cpal for audio output, and has found some bugs as well. In my free time I'm tinkering with CLAP plugins for Bitwig, your app looks quite similar to Bitwig Grid which I like a lot. Maybe providing it as a plugin would be a future option.
-
Get Started Making Music
I don't think Max4Live is not a good choice for building audio plugins. It's a weird platform that was designed for 'institutionalized academic music,' as I once read someone describe it. It's difficult to program in and not efficient. None of my favorite music software is made with it. It's also quite buggy, in my experience. For doing some basic extensions to Ableton Live specifically, beyond what VST allows access to, it's OK, since it's the only official way to do so.
If you want to just dive into DSP using wires and boxes, with some additional code sprinkled in, SynthEdit or Reaktor Core are faster, more fun, and produce better results. If you don't mind C++, check out iPlug from REAPER's WDL codebase: https://www.cockos.com/wdl/ — there are some forks of it.
There's also JUCE. You'll find some people complain about it and some people regret using it, despite it being relatively popular.
There are some Rust things for doing VST (and AU) development. Here's one that I've seen a few things made with: https://github.com/robbert-vdh/nih-plug/tree/master I wouldn't worry too much about the differences between C++ and Rust in this world. Audio software tends to be buggy, so the bar for being considered 'good enough' is pretty low.
-
DSP and Audio plugins.
There’s nih-plug for VST and CLAP plugins
-
Chromatic - instrument tuner by nate-xyz.
As it's written in Rust, perhaps it could be implemented as a CLAP plugin. This is a nice framework I've been playing with https://github.com/robbert-vdh/nih-plug/
-
What do you think is the next major direction for Rust adoption?
The potential is both in terms of moving away from proprietary corporate-controlled standards (but also still providing shared wrappers to support those "legacy" :) audio plugin formats) and supporting Rust as a first class development language (via e.g. https://github.com/robbert-vdh/nih-plug).
- Ask HN: Any sound-related project suggestions for learning Rust?
-
Seeking: Non GPL - VST3 basic API support
Yep, Steinberg licensing sucks. I suggest you use nih-plug, it has a much nicer Rust API and supports generating both VST3 and CLAP plugins from your code. I'm only targetting CLAP nowadays, but unfortunately not many DAW's support it.
-
Is there a common project for VST:s in Rust?
Your best bet is probably nih-plug.
-
A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
influxdata.com | 25 Apr 2025
Stats
robbert-vdh/nih-plug is an open source project licensed under ISC License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of nih-plug is Rust.