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Thanks, usually questions on the internet about learning VST programming are in the context of producers wanting finer control over their sound so the answer is

Thanks, usually questions on the internet about learning VST programming are in the context of producers wanting finer control over their sound so the answer is always "it's not worth it, just use Max/PD/Reaktor". But as a CS student who's into making music I was curious about how these tools are made and also how much the theory overlaps with other fields (which by your answer it does to a large extent). So its exciting to know the knowledge will come in handy in other areas and that its not a futile time sink :)

gavinray 5y ago
There is a massive online community (~10,000 people) of audio devs that will help you here: https://theaudioprogrammer.com/discord/ https://theaudioprogrammer.com/discord/ There are some devs from some well-known companies, as well as maintainers of a few popular frameworks there. They're (probably) going to tell you to use JUCE, use "Projucer" as a build tool, and C++ as a language. That's what most people do. I don't particularly love C++, and I prefer the CMake build, instead of their custom build tool, but potato-puhtahto. There's also a Rust Audio development community: https://github.com/RustAudio https://github.com/RustAudio https://discord.gg/b3hjnGw https://discord.gg/b3hjnGw And it may be a bit niche, but there is an (in my opinion) fantastic framework for writing audio plugins in D: https://github.com/AuburnSounds/Dplug https://github.com/AuburnSounds/Dplug It uses Physically-Based Rendering for the UI (PBR), which is generally used for 3D game stuff I think? It's a neat approach and the UI's it produces can look very realistic -- only framework that does this AFAIK. The author Guillaume is a nice person and will answer questions in the #audio-dev channel of the D-lang Discord that is linked in the Dplug repo.
- p0nce 5y ago
  We welcome people that want to make a plugin business foremost (or already are in the market). https://dplug.org/ https://dplug.org/

gavinray 5y ago

There is a massive online community (~10,000 people) of audio devs that will help you here: https://theaudioprogrammer.com/discord/ https://theaudioprogrammer.com/discord/ There are some devs from some well-known companies, as well as maintainers of a few popular frameworks there. They're (probably) going to tell you to use JUCE, use "Projucer" as a build tool, and C++ as a language. That's what most people do. I don't particularly love C++, and I prefer the CMake build, instead of their custom build tool, but potato-puhtahto. There's also a Rust Audio development community: https://github.com/RustAudio https://github.com/RustAudio https://discord.gg/b3hjnGw https://discord.gg/b3hjnGw And it may be a bit niche, but there is an (in my opinion) fantastic framework for writing audio plugins in D: https://github.com/AuburnSounds/Dplug https://github.com/AuburnSounds/Dplug It uses Physically-Based Rendering for the UI (PBR), which is generally used for 3D game stuff I think? It's a neat approach and the UI's it produces can look very realistic -- only framework that does this AFAIK. The author Guillaume is a nice person and will answer questions in the #audio-dev channel of the D-lang Discord that is linked in the Dplug repo.

p0nce 5y ago
We welcome people that want to make a plugin business foremost (or already are in the market). https://dplug.org/ https://dplug.org/