OSAMC LV2 Plug-in Workshop

Documentation and code for a workshop on creating LV2 plug-ins by OSAMC (https://osamc.de)

Recommended Reading Order

"My first LV2 plugin": SimpleGain

Step by step instructions to create the SimpleGian plugin, based on the DPF framework https://github.com/osamc-lv2-workshop/lv2-workshop/blob/master/my-first-lv2-plugin.rst

Changing SimpleGain into SimpleSaw

https://github.com/osamc-lv2-workshop/lv2-workshop/blob/master/simplesaw-plugin.rst

MIDI input for SimpleSaw to create SimpleSynth

(Step by step instructions may follow) https://github.com/osamc-lv2-workshop/simplesynth

Plug-in Frameworks

The DISTRHO Plugin Framework (DPF):

https://github.com/DISTRHO/DPF

DPF allows to create plug-ins in different formats with custom UIs using a simple C++ API. We are using this framework in this workshop to create our plug-ins.

A presentation by DPF's author falkTX:

https://media.ccc.de/v/minilac16-ltsmakesomeplugins

WDL / IPlug (Oli Larkin Edition):

https://github.com/olilarkin/wdl-ol

A framework very similar to DPF, but orientated more towards developing for Windows and OS X (i.e. supports AU plug-ins)

A very good multi-part tutorial on developing plug-ins with WDL-OL:

http://www.martin-finke.de/blog/tags/making_audio_plugins.html

General Programming, DSP and Synthesis

A blog with many articles on the different aspects of software synthesizers:

http://www.earlevel.com/main/

The WaveTable oscillator and ADSR envelope classes we are using in this workshop originate there.

A good tutorial on the basics of programming in C++:

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/

LV2

A short introduction to what the LV2 standard tries to accomplish:

http://lv2plug.in/pages/why-lv2.html

A Developer tutorial on creating LV2 plug-ins by using its C interface directly:

http://lv2plug.in/book/

LV2 environment and paths:

http://lv2plug.in/pages/filesystem-hierarchy-standard.html

GUI & Graphics

JKnobMan:

https://www.g200kg.com/jp/software/knobman.html

A Java-based creation tool for making image strips for animated knobs, sliders and switches.

Knob Gallery:

https://www.g200kg.com/en/webknobman/gallery.php

Knob Gallery is a free sharing space for ".knob" files created with JKnobMan or WebKnobMan.