Going Over Data Limit Vst Plugins

Going Over Data Limit Vst Plugins

Going Over Data Limit Vst Plugins Pro
Welcome! In this tutorial series we will be learning how to create audio plugins that run as VST, VST3, AU, RTAS, AAX or as a standalone application.
Audio plugins are programs that are loaded into a host software (such as Ableton Live, Logic or REAPER). They process Audio and/or MIDI data and can have a graphical user interface. Here are three examples (U-He Zebra, Sonalksis FreeG and D16 Decimort):
The guitars on the plugin were recorded with two adjustable mic positions, and they were also recorded in both stereo and mono playback modes. You have complete control over these sounds with customizable fret noise, resonance, velocity sensitivity, and more. This VST utilizes automatic doubling with spacing control. W1 Limiter is a clone of the well-known Waves L1 plugin with identical output, as well as an approximation of Waves L2. To achieve this result the developer modified the existent 4Front YLimiter by simplifying the release curve, increasing the release time 3 times, altering the softening circuit filter.
As you can see, the GUI usually contains some controls (the knob being the most common) that change how the plugin processes incoming data. A plugin has presets (in the screenshot they're called Combo and Emulator) that store all knob positions and other values.
We'll start with a simple distortion plugin. After that, we'll create this subtractive synthesizer plugin step by step:
We will use C++ and the WDL-OL library. It is based on Cockos WDL (pronounced whittle). It basically does a lot of work for us, most importantly:
Ready-made Xcode / Visual Studio Projects
Create VST, AudioUnit, VST3 and RTAS formats from one codebase: Just choose the plugin format and click run!
Create 32/64-Bit executables
Make your plugin run as a standalone Win/Mac application
Most GUI controls used in audio plugins
It also gives you most GUI controls used in audio plugins, and some commonly used audio algorithms like for example resampling. This forum thread has screenshots of a lot of plugins that were done using WDL.
The different plugin formats all do more or less the same, so normally there would be a lot of copy & paste in your code. As a programmer you want to stay DRY, so sooner or later you'd write an abstraction layer over the different formats. This work has already been done in the form of IPlug, which is a part of WDL. These are the annoying parts of audio plugin development, so we can now focus on the fun stuff, such as:
How the plugin processes incoming Audio/MIDI
What the plugin looks like
How it integrates with the host (automation, presets, etc.)
Another good thing about WDL is its permissive license: You can use it freely for commercial applications. See the links above for details.
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