Tutorial on how to host VST plugins using JUCE?

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Richard Shepherd picture Richard Shepherd · May 20, 2012 · Viewed 7.4k times · Source

I would like to write some code to host VST plugins in my C++ application. It looks like the JUCE library may be helpful for this. Does anyone know where I can find a tutorial on how to host and connect together VST plugins in JUCE?

I've built the JUCE code and got the 'Plugin Host' sample working. It looks like the library will be able to do just what I want. My problem is that I'm finding the sample code hard to follow (not many comments etc). It also uses a lot of JUCE-specific coding for managing the UI and so on. I'm finding it hard to disentangle what I need to do to manage VST plugins from the other code in the sample.

If anyone knows of a tutorial I would be very grateful!

Answer

DavidDuwaer picture DavidDuwaer · Jan 31, 2015

This tutorial walks through the development of audio applications using JUCE, and in part 2 they cover hosting VST plugins.

(edit: I updated the links, also note they have a part 3 to the series)

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