Ai Audio Plugin
Magnhild Mongolo
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After a code change which you want to test, do you have to load the newly compiled plugin into some host each time to test it?
Or is there a faster way to speed up development? Because that would make the iteration cycle very slow.
DAWs that can be run as a debugger, like reaper or cubase, are useful for finding bugs that already happen at initialization with the breakpoint debugger. but usually i use bitwig as a test host. due to its plugin sandboxing system you can almost hotswap builds and speed up your casual troubleshooting workflows
Thanks for the answers.
What is not clear to me is in which of these scenarios will we be able to debug the plugin in Visual Studio debugger. Thus setting breakpoints and stepping through the code if needed.
Others have mentioned pluginval, I recommend registering pluginval to run as a test case with your test harness (CTest or other). Unit tests for GUI are more difficult to write, though it can be done; I mostly write unit tests for DSP code.
The one I gave in the first response post. Your IDE runs the DAW. Have a default project that loads with your plugin on a track. The IDE debug session will bind and you can debug step with breakpoints in your plugin. Inspect variables, step into/over and so on.
So far, in the audio input settings, I can only choose the microphone as my audio input. This is not the most useful input for me. I would like to change it to receive input from Ableton, Max/MSP or even a different JUCE project.
Mind the Placeholder which should be replaced by your Processor Class. This Function should be placed inside your Processor.cpp File (but it is also possible to put it somewhere else). This is something like the starting point for the host to get an instance of your VST Plugin.
Followed the Setup Plugin Debugging instructions and created the Juce Plugin Host correctly.
However, when following the steps and trying to add the plugin to the Available Plugin List I get the same error:
Thank you! It seems like there's a decent community around audio/music in Rust that I wasn't aware of (several people have directed me to #rust-music on IRC since I wrote this tutorial), so I'm super excited to get involved.
Wonderful timing on this--I've begun learning how to develop audio applications and plugins myself over the last couple of weeks using JUCE. As much as I enjoy the brain exercise from revisiting C++, my long-term dream would be to write these things in Rust and spread the good word there.
Regarding the shell script you linked, that's for creating a VST2 bundle in the format that OSX/MacOS expects them in, not turning them into Audio Units (Apple's plugin format for Logic, Garageband, etc.), right? It looks like there's some bindings for those in the coreaudio-sys crate, at least. Furthermore, it looks like the only VST-oriented crate is vst2, but do you know whether anyone's begun a VST3 implementation in Rust? Are there any major technical or licensing/IP hurdles that make VST3 in Rust impractical?
Yeah, as far as I can tell the script is just a VST bundler, rather than doing any sort of conversion. I'm very much not a Mac person, so I'm the wrong person to ask about the state of Audio Unit support in the Rust world I imagine the approach to writing a high level wrapper over coreaudio-sys wouldn't be too different from what overdrivenpotato's done with vst2, though?
In terms of VST3 stuff - I have no clue why there doesn't seem to be any libraries for that in Rust. I'm very much a beginner when it comes to audio software development, so if there's any glaring technical/legal issues preventing it from happening I'm ignorant of them.
There's a more up to date tutorial here by Doomy that kinda picks up where I left off - it details the changes that have happened in the ecosystem since my tutorial, and shows how to write a simple noise generator plugin. I highly recommend it
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For platforms such as IOS the plugin code needs to be statically linked into the Unity binary produced by the generated XCode project and there - just like plugin rendering devices - the plugin registration has to be added explicitly to the startup code of the app.
I cant seem to get the AudioPluginDemo.a static library working. Everything seems to be working ok. Xcode has built the static library and I used the resulting "AudioPluginDemo.a" to build in unity. However, I get no sound/functionality from the plugins. For instance in the "303 and 909 like synths" example, all I get is a voice sample - whereas on windows there are other samples (a 303 and a 909).
Just wondering how you built the AudioPluginDemo ? There is no static project with included. I just edited the .xcodeproj package to be a static library instead of a bundle - you think this might be the problem?
Thanks @aihodge for sharing these steps. Following those (and plenty of trial and error) I was able to get my custom audio static library running on iOS. I was struggling with xcode complaining about plugin being build for wrong archtecture among other things. Not sure whether really necessary but after stripping the static library (.a) to support only arm64 it was correctly being loaded when running the app on iPad.
I am able to create a custom .bundle in Xcode, and can run the spatializer demo scene in the editor and as a stand-alone application on my Mac. I am also able to create a static library (.a-file) in Xcode and building for iOS seems to go well in Unity. Also using the resulting Xcode project to install the app on my iPhone seems to go well, but I get the following error when runninng it on the phone:
Audio source failed to initialize audio spatializer. An audio spatializer is specified in the audio project settings, but the associated plugin was not found or initialized properly. Please make sure that the selected spatializer is compatible with the target.
Hi where can i find more information on how to write the plugins for android ios and other platforms, i managed to build native audio plugins for mac and windows using the juce library (it has a good audio api and a wrapper for building plugins), i presume i can make some changes to the wrapper ang get things going , but i am unsure where to start
A little update but still looking for help. I built an .apk file from my jucer project and the .apk files that i built , when unzipped contained the .so files t. I imported them into my unity project as described and on debugging i get the same error as mentioned above. I am unable to find and android.mk file in my build project. so i am very confused
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But not as exciting as when I learned that if you crank it way up and make the flutterspeed REALLY slow, you get a heavy guitar doubler. Suddenly, I had a really decent fake hard-panned, still weirdly tight, doubled guitar that sounded fantastic apart from occasionally (and understandably) going mono on me.
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