robbert-vdh/nih-plug
Rust VST3 and CLAP plugin framework and plugins - because everything is better when you do it yourself
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Where it stands
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1 release in the last 90 days, the latest 63 days ago, with 37 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a Rust-based framework for creating VST3 and CLAP audio plugins with minimal boilerplate and flexible stateful APIs.
- Enables easy plugin development with rich declarative parameters, asynchronous realtime-safe tasks, and cross-platform support including standalone binaries.
- Use for developing custom audio effects or instruments with fine-grained control over parameter behavior and state persistence in Rust.
- Use for building polyphonic synthesizers or MIDI processors that leverage advanced MIDI event handling and polyphonic modulation support.
- Use for creating audio plugins with custom GUIs using supported Rust GUI frameworks like egui, iced, or VIZIA integrated with the plugin parameter system.
Should you depend on it?
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License
ISC
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
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From the README
NIH-plug is an API-agnostic audio plugin framework written in Rust, as well as a small collection of plugins. The idea is to have a stateful yet simple plugin API that gets rid of as much unnecessary ceremony wherever possible, while also keeping the amount of magic to minimum and making it easy to experiment with different approaches to things. See the current features section for more information on the project's current status.
Check out the documentation, or use the cookiecutter template to quickly get started with NIH-plug.
Check each plugin's readme file for more details on what the plugin actually does. You can download the development binaries for Linux, Windows and macOS from the automated builds page. Or if you're not signed in on GitHub, then you can also find the latest nightly build here. You may need to disable Gatekeeper on macOS to be able to use the plugins.
Scroll down for more information on the underlying plugin framework.
Daily snapshots
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Forks
340+34
Open issues
128+6
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