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Template for Pluggo VST instruments

March 8, 2005
Plugtemplate

Lately I’ve been working on a template for building VST instruments using Pluggo. I’ve wanted to make a very simple soft synth but containing the kind of features that I’m likely to want for any soft synth I might make:

  • Pitch Bend implementation
  • Vibrato with envelope for depth
  • 1/f pitch drift
  • ADSR envelope
  • Global tremolo
  • Pan
  • Volume
  • Pitch detuning
  • Polyfonic handling
  • Implementation for common MIDI messages
  • Simple system for GUI window presets and plug config

Apart from these features the template is really simple: Nothing but a sine oscillator.

The general idea have been to make a template so that in the future I won’t have to think (much) about Pluggo stuff as I’m patching but can instead fully concentrate on the DSP processing involved.

At the top of this post is a snapshot of what the template patch looks like and below is a snapshot of a test of the synth.

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