It does say you can make plugins, but the link doesn't work.
It would be huge if you could make cross-platform AU/VST*/AAX without the costs of JUCE, but I suspect that isn't on offer here.
It would be huge if you could make cross-platform AU/VST*/AAX without the costs of JUCE, but I suspect that isn't on offer here.
The new docs structure broke the website links, I'll get that fixed asap. See here in the mean time: https://www.elementary.audio/docs/packages/plugin-renderer
Also, as another user here has already pointed out, the "plugin development kit" is still macos only, though I anticipate releasing the windows version within hopefully a week or two.
you can make cross-platform plugins without JUCE by using iPlug, Faust or even Rust
the selling point of this seems to allow js/web developers to build plugins
and we already know what happened when web developers were allowed to build desktop apps (Electron)
luckily given real-time and cpu constraints this might never happen to Audio Plug-ins
I agree about the js though. Even if it's a reinvention of web audio with a C++ backend, js and DSP just don't feel like a good fit.
And I would be surprised if the UI side wasn't limited in the way that full native isn't.
since I was already making my own knobs and panels for vcvrack, it was an easy fit for building out vst3/au plugins.
And there's a free tier that allows up to $50k annual revenue.
That is indeed pretty affordable.
J V3 used to be more than that. I remember looking at it and writing it off for cost reasons, but that was quite some time ago.