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Making Audio Plugins (2015)

46 points by jchook 9y ago

TheRealPomax 9y ago
I remember trying this half a year ago, but the tutorial was already no longer applicable because WDL-OL couldn't be installed the way the tutorial covered for Windows. It explains how to do the setup using VS2010, which is genuinely obsolete at this point, so unless that's been addressed, I've not been able to actually make this tutorial work for me.
- p0nce 9y ago
  I'm making an audio plugin library in D, with the explicit goal to avoid all the pain of setting IDE projects, paths, and managing dependencies (all of this is done through the language package manager). https://github.com/AuburnSounds/dplug https://github.com/AuburnSounds/dplug
  - TheRealPomax 9y ago
    any intention of supporting VST3, now that Steinberg has officially discontinued VST2 development (i.e. there will never be a new 2.x version of the spec)?
    - p0nce 9y ago
      None, since no customer ever asked for it. Much more people are asking for AAX or even LV2.
zensavona 9y ago
This is a great tutorial (I've read it), but I think for a number of reasons JUCE[0] is vastly superior to WDL-OL (although if you're not already familiar with audio programming in C++, the docs can be a little daunting). I would suggest starting by checking out some open source plugins and standalone apps made with JUCE[1] to understand how the applications are structured, and the docs[2]. It also comes with a (mostly) great IDE called Projucer which allows you to see your code changes reflected in your application (almost) instantly. [0]: https://www.juce.com/ https://www.juce.com/ [1]: https://github.com/search?l=C%2B%2B&q=juce&type=Repositories&utf8=%E2%9C%93 https://github.com/search?l=C%2B%2B&q=juce&type=Repositories... [2]: https://www.juce.com/doc/tutorial_create_projucer_basic_plugin https://www.juce.com/doc/tutorial_create_projucer_basic_plug...
sideb0ard 9y ago
great, thanks! I've been using Will Pirkle's books, which are really good, to learn how to build a synth and make audio effects (http://www.willpirkle.com/ http://www.willpirkle.com/). Nice to have a second resource to compare against.
adamnemecek 9y ago
If this piqued your interest, you should check out audiokit https://github.com/AudioKit/AudioKit https://github.com/AudioKit/AudioKit

46 points by jchook 9y ago

I remember trying this half a year ago, but the tutorial was already no longer applicable because WDL-OL couldn't be installed the way the tutorial covered for Windows. It explains how to do the setup using VS2010, which is genuinely obsolete at this point, so unless that's been addressed, I've not been able to actually make this tutorial work for me.

p0nce 9y ago
I'm making an audio plugin library in D, with the explicit goal to avoid all the pain of setting IDE projects, paths, and managing dependencies (all of this is done through the language package manager). https://github.com/AuburnSounds/dplug https://github.com/AuburnSounds/dplug
- TheRealPomax 9y ago
  any intention of supporting VST3, now that Steinberg has officially discontinued VST2 development (i.e. there will never be a new 2.x version of the spec)?
  - p0nce 9y ago
    None, since no customer ever asked for it. Much more people are asking for AAX or even LV2.

zensavona 9y ago

This is a great tutorial (I've read it), but I think for a number of reasons JUCE[0] is vastly superior to WDL-OL (although if you're not already familiar with audio programming in C++, the docs can be a little daunting). I would suggest starting by checking out some open source plugins and standalone apps made with JUCE[1] to understand how the applications are structured, and the docs[2]. It also comes with a (mostly) great IDE called Projucer which allows you to see your code changes reflected in your application (almost) instantly. [0]: https://www.juce.com/ https://www.juce.com/ [1]: https://github.com/search?l=C%2B%2B&q=juce&type=Repositories&utf8=%E2%9C%93 https://github.com/search?l=C%2B%2B&q=juce&type=Repositories... [2]: https://www.juce.com/doc/tutorial_create_projucer_basic_plugin https://www.juce.com/doc/tutorial_create_projucer_basic_plug...

sideb0ard 9y ago

great, thanks! I've been using Will Pirkle's books, which are really good, to learn how to build a synth and make audio effects (http://www.willpirkle.com/ http://www.willpirkle.com/). Nice to have a second resource to compare against.

adamnemecek 9y ago

If this piqued your interest, you should check out audiokit https://github.com/AudioKit/AudioKit https://github.com/AudioKit/AudioKit