Audio-Plugin-Development-Resources

This is a collection of links and resources mainly aimed at facilitating Audio-Plugin-Development (VST, AU, AAX), including some signal processing. This list curated by Oli Larkin may also be of interest. (https://github.com/olilarkin/awesome-musicdsp), as well as this one maintained by Ocean Swift (https://github.com/OceanSwift/DSP-Links-Resources)

I certainly haven't read everything here so a link != endorsement.

Core Resources

Audio Plug-ins

Plug-in Development Books

• 2021 - Designing Software Synthesizer Plugins in C++ Second Edition
• 2019 - Designing Audio Effect Plug-Ins in C++
• 2015 - Designing Software Synthesizer Plugins in C++
• 2014 - Audio Effects: Theory, Implementation and Application
• 2013 - Getting Started with JUCE
• 2011 - DAFX: Digital Audio Effects
• 2010 - The Audio Programming Book

Plug-in Development Videos

• Teaching Yourself to Make Music Software: Steve Duda in Conversation | Loop
• The Golden Rules of Audio Programming, Pete Goodliffe
• Lessons Learned from a Decade of Audio Programming
• CppCon 2015: Timur Doumler “C++ in the Audio Industry
• Volterra kernel based sampling and the future of convolution audio software
• Audio Developer Conference Playlists
• LL003 | Dave Gamble (DMG Audio) - The magical world of plugins
• Dave Gamble talks TrackComp – DMGAudio Developer Insights
• Dave Gamble talks Multiplicity – DMGAudio Developer Insights
• Marek Bereza - How to prototype audio software
• Russel McClellan - A practical perspective on deep learning in audio software
• Oli Larkin: iPlug2, C++ framework to build plug-ins
• LIVE | Conversation with Baby Audio | Caspar Bock (Managing Director)

Sound Design Books

• The Computer Music Tutorial (The MIT Press)

Digital Signal Processing

Digital Signal Processing Books

• Understanding Digital Signal Processing
• The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing
• JOS: Mathematics of the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) wih Audio Applications
• JOS: Introduction to Digital Filters with Audio Applications
• JOS: Physical Audio Signal Processing for Virtual Musical Instruments and Audio Effects
• JOS: Spectral Audio Signal Processing
• The Art of VA Filter Design
• Fundamentals of Music Processing: Audio, Analysis, Algorithms, Applications

Digital Signal Processing Videos

• But what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction.

Digital Signal Processing Tutorials

• Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals a Compact Primer on Digital Signal Processing
• RS-Met
• Overlap-add Convolution
• Ear Level Engineering

Audio Development Libraries and Languages

Library	Site	Language
iPlug2	iPlug2	C++
JUCE	JUCE	C++
dplug	dplug	D
DISTRHO	DISTRHO	C++

iPlug 2

• (Old) Martin Finke: Making Audio Plug-ins

JUCE

• Official JUCE Tutorials
• Official JUCE Youtube
• The Audio Programmer
• Scowling Owl Blog
• Learn Modern C++ by Building an Audio Plugin (w/ JUCE Framework) - Full Course

JS

• CookDSP
• JSFX

Faust

• Faust Physical Modeling Workshop
• Using the FAUST DSP language and the libfaust JIT compiler with JUCE - Oli Larkin
• Faust Worksop 2015: Online Course - Romain Michon

DSP Code

• STK
• Audio Toolkit
• MusicDSP Archive

Forums and Discussion

• iPLug 2 Forum
• KVR: DSP and Plug-in Development
• WDL-OL

• pluginval

Analog Hardware Modelling

Mainly concerned with modelling compressors, channel strips, and EQ's.

General Case

Videos

• Virtual Analog Audio Effects Simulation with JUCE - Ivan Cohen
• Cedar: A Composable ML Accelerated Analog Circuit Simulator | G Hertz, P de Vos | JuliaCon2021
• From Circuit to Code: Under the Hood of Analog Modelling - Andrew Simper - ADC20
• A Comparison of Virtual Analog Modelling Techniques - Jatin Chowdhury - ADC20r

General

• UA's Art and Science of Modeling UAD Plug-Ins - Part 1
• UA's Art and Science of Modeling UAD Plug-Ins - Part 2
• Under the Hood of the Empirical Labs Arousor Plug-in with Dave Derr
• KVR General Discussion
• The Art Of Physical Modelling - David Bessell | Podcast

Compressors

• 1176

Papers

• Passive Guaranteed Simulation of Analog Audio Circuits: A Port-Hamiltonian Approach

Guitar Amp Modelling

Guitar Amp Theory

• Amp Books - Tutorials/Scehmatics
• Valve Wizard
• Amplifier Glossary
• Distortion 101
• A Musical Distortion Primer
• GM-Arts Amp page
• SwankyAmp
• Khan Academy - Electrical Engineering

Modelling Theory

• Reddit user /u/C0DASOON comment on machine learning in guitar amp modelling
• Reddit user /u/KjellJagland post on Using ML to digitally emulate commercial vacuum tube amplifiers and transistor-based distortion circuits for guitars
• Reddit user /u/J1OO post on Guitar Amp Model
• David Yeh
• A Review of Digital Techniques for Modeling Vacuum-Tube Guitar Amplifiers
• DAFX
• SimulAnalog Articles
• Scholar Search
• Addendum A19 Vacuum Tube & Distortion Emulation Part 2
• Component [triode.sym] was not found in the component library
• Real-Time Guitar Amplifier Emulation with Deep Learning
• Jatin Chowdhury
• GuitarML
• Deep Learning for Guitar Effect Emulation
• Neural Networks as Guitar Amps (with Neural DSP interview)
• Guitar + ML
• Efficient neural networks for real-time analog audio effect modeling
• Randomized overdrive neural networks

Github Repos

• GuitarML
• AI-GuitarAmpModelling
• WaveNetVA
• PedalNet
• micro-TCN
• PedalNetRT
• Voxworld

Software/Tools

• SPICE
• LiveSPICE
• DAP: Tone Stack Calculator
• DAP: Tube Data Sheet Locator
• Circuit Simulator
• Wavy

Tutorials/Posts

• Simulating Audio Effects with LTSpice
• Simulating the TS808 Tubescreamer in LTSpice
• LTSpice and and Vacuum Tube Models
• Transient Analysis in with LTSpice
• Analog Modeling: Triode Circuit
• Analog Modeling: SD-1 vs TS9
• Tubescreamer Emulator in 60 Minutes

Videos

• Make your own Free Amp Sim?
• Audio Processing Tutorial: How To Create an AWESOME Distortion VST/AU Plugin In C++ (JUCE Framework)
• Matthieu Brucher - Modelling and optimizing a distortion circuit (ADC'17)
• Ivan Cohen - Fifty shades of distortion (ADC'17)
• Virtual Analog Audio Effects Simulation with JUCE - Ivan Cohen
• Virtual Analog Modeling Research - Vesa Valimaki
• AX84 HI-OCTANE DIY Guitar amp Simulation in LTSPICE

Schematics

• Schematic Heaven
• Dumble ODS #124
• The Amp Garage (Good for Dumble Schematics)

Speaker Simulation

• Cabsims

Synth

• VL1-emulator

Misc

• Open Source: Caps
• Open Source: Guitarix
• REAL-TIME PHYSICAL MODELLING FOR ANALOG TAPE MACHINES
• IIRNet

Effects

Reverb

• Valhalla DSP Blog
• time-stretcher

Other

• Imogen

GUI Design

• SkinMan
• KnobMan
• KVR: Knobman/Skinman Examples
• KVR: Getting into VST UI Design
• Photoshop: Creating a Cool Brushed Metal Surface
• Photoshop: How to make Tweed
• GIMP: Create a metal effect
• GIMP: Metal text effects
• Blender: Blender Guru Youtube
• PluginGuiMagic

Physical Modelling

• Online talk #4: Physical modeling with Pat Scandalis

GPU Audio

• Realtime GPU Audio Finite difference-based sound synthesis using graphics processors
• GPU Physical Modeling SYntesiser

Miscellaneous Resources

• AudioKit
• SOUL
• SoMA Group
• JavaScript Audio Plugin
• DawDreamer
• SonicPi
• Spotify Pedalboard
• Audio-Effects Examples

Audio Codecs

• Audio File Format Specifications - Wave
• CookDSP: Library for Reaper JS