Having now written the same PoC plugin from scratch three times for different APIs:
#CLAP is by far my favorite: open, very clean, no bullshit
#AUv3 is obtuse in a way APIs / frameworks by big corporations tend to be. Logic / GarageBand being the de facto implementations, their bugs in effect become undocumented parts of the API
#VST3... oh boy. Steinberg shot for the moon when a ladder would be enough, as demonstrated by CLAP. Awful experience.
Started using @golang for simple command line tooling instead of Typescript. So far enjoying it very much, I think it’s bye bye to (cli/serverside) Typescript for me.
I am head over heels excited about the CLAP plugin format, both as a musician and a developer. It's really incredible what it allows both parties to achieve. This talk by the devs was very nice, I think:
Started working on the final #UI for my convolution #CLAP / #VSTPlugin. As I’m working on it on my free time, I’m expecting to be done some time next year.
This might be the first time I’m developing a UI for something that’s essentially feature complete, although some logic changes are necessary to make the interface elegant and easy to understand. Quite a different way of working compared to what I’m used to, with both positives and negatives.
How many #plugins do you have installed on your system? 🫣️ I always remove the ones I do not use and currently sport the following numbers: #clap: 36 / #lv2: 22 / #vst2: 92 / #vst3: 104
If I subtract different variants of the same plug-in, I get 92 individual plug-ins. Feels like a lot to me! 😝️ #musicproduction#daw#inthebox#linux#macos#windows#linuxaudio
Default sorting on the site is always latest additions/updates of plugins to the #linuxaudio world, so you can pretty much use it as "news site". We also have a RSS feed for the old-schoolers..
Any good stuff missing? Just let us know, contributions are most welcome :)