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[New project] arbor - Easy-to-use audio plugin framework

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Easy-to-use audio plugin framework. Contribute to ArborealAudio/arbor development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub - ArborealAudio/arbor: Easy-to-use audio plugin framework

From the README:

arbor

For the future of plugin development

Goals

  • Dead-simple plugin development. Write <= 100 lines of code and have a runnable blank-slate plugin.

  • Ideally only require Zig as a toolchain dependency, not as a programming language. You should be able to write plugins in C/C++/whatever and easily link that code to Arbor via a C API and the Zig build system.

    • Could also have a get_zig.sh that will download latest stable Zig if you don't already have it
  • Easy cross-compilation. Compile to Mac/Linux/Windows from Mac/Linux/Windows, batteries included.

  • Cross-platform graphics. A simple software renderer (like Olivec), but also native graphics programming, potentially using something like sokol, or making a thin wrapper around Direct2D/CoreGraphics for cross-platform graphics abstraction, giving the programmer a simple choice with little-to-no platform-specific considerations.

  • Simple, declarative UI design. Possibly with the option of using a custom CSS-like syntax (or Ziggy) to declare, arrange, and style UI widgets at runtime or compile-time, all compiling to native code--not running in some god-forsaken web browser embedded in a plugin UI 🤮

Have:

  • A nice abstraction layer over plugin APIs which should lend itself nicely to extending support to other APIs

  • Easy comptime parameter generation

  • Basic CLAP audio plugin supporting different types of parameters, sample-accurate automation

  • A janky VST2 implementation that works in Reaper and mostly works in other DAWs

  • Simple, portable software rendering using Olivec and a custom text rendering function with a bitmap font

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