Which part of "vst plugins from scratch" do you not understand ??

 

I was wrong about reaJS though, doesn't detract from the fact that your "solution" was completely irrelevant to my needs.

 

Given the fact that you don't know how to implement an SDK I highly doubt that. Your inability to ask precise question pretty much disqualifies you from ever becoming a programmer.

 

Don't have solutions but will attack credibility !!

 

Jesus fucking christ ! I am done , sorry for asking any help.

 

It's not that we don't read previous comments. It's more a matter of finishing our comment before others comment. If I start to write a reply and step away for a bit and come back to it, there will probably be other's who have made similar comments. Don't be a hater we are all just trying to help.

As far as writing from scratch, you can't for VST (Steinberg), AU/Component (Apple), AAX/RTAS Avid, Reason Rack etc... all are licensed tech that DAW's use to load said formats. There will be prewritten code to interface to get the DAW to load it properly. Archive.org is a good source to search for books that are now free for distribution by topic. I'm not really sure what you mean by creating a VST from scratch. VST is proprietary tech from Steinberg, no scratch code here.

That said you can develop a standalone instrument that can output audio to import into a DAW. Here is a link to a discussion over on Stack about C++ audio libraries leaning toward game development but there is useful information there.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/994161/what-are-the-best-affordable-c-audio-libraries#9749414

Disclaimer: Someone may have already come up with a similar answer by the time this was posted. Your mileage may vary.

 

Did you just use the word 'hater' unironically ?

 

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I am willing to let that aspect go. For now.

 

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I get what you say, but what I meant with "maximum latency guaranteed" is "worst case scenario latency", very important in real-time stuff.

Please do it or you'll break the world record of replies in a row.

 

Hey at least accomplishing 'something' via this thread ! Not bad huh ?

 

Will try now !

 

Better question: WHY do you want to make VST plugs?

 

Why do you do anything at all ? Why do you breathe ? Why do you eat ? Why do you shit ? Why are you commenting on this thread ?
Why do you think $1 has any value at all ? Huh ? Ever thought about these things ?

 

... two pages later...

No more questions, your honor.

 

I had doubts that my sarcasm is way too perfect and GOD-LIKE but MAN ! I am a happy man today.

 

If you are really serious about making a VST "from scratch", you will definitely need to use an SDK otherwise because you will need to use some defined APIs so that your DAW will know how to communicate with your plugin.

You should really give the Steinberg's SDK a try, it comes with plenty of examples to look at and play with and the best way to learn is to learn through example.

https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vst3sdk

I don't know your use case here, but you might want to know a little more than "a little C++" and you might need to understand DSP if you want to minimize latency. If you want to minimize it further, you can offload processing to the GPU. You can minimize it even further by buying a dedicated DSP card and offloading the processing to that. That might go a little beyond knowing a little C++ though, but who am I to judge? I have only been coding for 37 years.

tl;dr

Know C++, get an SDK and dive in

 

BIG OOF if true !
Thanks for the suggestion ! I guess Steinberg's SDK is currently the only option for me.
Now every night I will dream of a language that is faster than C++, built exclusively for building vst plugins, has its own IDE and compiler and has a syntax more beautiful and logical than any language ever created.