Package dplug on DUB

To use this package, run the following command in your project's root directory:

- Build tool for plug-ins. DUB frontend which makes multiple versions of a plugin, and also package them in OSX bundles

- Very barebones VST host to test speed of processing on a stereo file.

<a href="https://code.dlang.org/packages/dplug" title="Go to dplug"><img src="https://img.shields.io/dub/v/dplug.svg" alt="Dub version"></a>

Dplug lets you create audio plug-ins with unmatched simplicity and speed, using the D language.

🏠 Homepage: https://dplug.org/
📚 Wiki: https://github.com/AuburnSounds/Dplug/wiki
💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/7PdUvUbyJs

Features

Format	macOS arm64	macOS amd64	Windows 32-bit	Windows 64-bit	Linux x86-64
VST2	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
VST3	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
AUv2	✅	✅
AAX	✅	✅	✅	✅
LV2	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅

✅ Automated Mac and Windows installers
✅ Build plug-ins with less pain using the D language, possibly the most powerful native language available today
✅ Live-coding of the UI with Wren
✅ Package-based dependency management with DUB, the D language's package manager
✅ Small binaries with (optional) rendering
✅ Support major DAWs
✅ Small, growing, tight-knit community

Community and ecosystem

The following commercial products are known to use Dplug:

Convergence by Cut Through Recordings
Couture by Auburn Sounds
Entropy by Cut Through Recordings
EpicPRESS by Cut Through Recordings
Graillon by Auburn Sounds
Lens by Auburn Sounds
M4 Multiband Compressor by Cut Through Recordings
OneTrick Simian by Punk Labs
Panagement by Auburn Sounds
Renegate by Auburn Sounds
Tarabia MK II by SMAOLAB
Yamatube Pro by SMAOLAB

Become one happy Dplug contributor by submitting issues and pull-requests, and come talk with us on the D Language Discord to learn more and meet other Dplug users!

Release notes

Keep up with major changes here: Release Notes

Tutorials

Getting Started

Governance

Dplug has a deep commitment to stability. All breaking changes are documented in the Changelog and issues major SemVer tags for breaking changes. If you don't want any breaking changes, you can pin Dplug to a major version in your dub.json. Breaking changes only happen for major tags.

Dplug's goal is to support existing products and building commercial companies around them. It is a part-time operation, from people who release commercial plug-ins.

Being stable and relatively bug-free is deemed more important to us than implement every possible feature. It's often than enhancements get postponed in favour of product development, so please be patient!

Where do I start?

Be sure to read the Wiki in depth.

Strengths of Dplug

As lightweight as possible
Public bugtracker
Well-defined scope: for professional plug-in developers
Maintained continuously, supported by sales for the foreseeable future
Price is free, no personal support must be expected though
Intel intrinsics compatible with Apple Silicon
Fast 2D software rasterizer in dplug:canvas
Scriptable UI for faster authoring
PBR-style rendering lets you have a good visual quality with less disk space. If you don't use it, you don't pay for it.
No dealing with resource compilers: D can import("filename.ext") them
Easy to install and update
Constant push to fight complexity

VST3 SDK

If you don't have the VST3 SDK, you can't make VST3 plugins with Dplug. Find the VST3 SDK there: http://www.steinberg.net/en/company/developers.html

If you don't have a licensing agreement with Steinberg, you can't distribute VST2 or VST3 plug-ins.

Licenses

Dplug has many different licenses depending on the sub-package you need. Please check individual source files for license information. Please do your homework and respect the individual licences when releasing a plug-in.

14.7.1	2024-Nov-21
14.7.0	2024-Nov-15
14.6.0	2024-Nov-06
14.5.0	2024-Oct-15
14.4.2	2024-Sep-30

dplug 13.7.5