Run the application and you will see the graphical node editor that looks like this: Then inside your IDE build the project to create a binary (which on Mac OS X you will find at extras/AudioPluginHost/Builds/MacOSX/build). To access the host go to extras/AudioPluginHost/ and open the. Thankfully, JUCE makes that easy, with a built-in plug-in host. One of the challenges of building plug-ins is testing them. Click the build button to verify that your plug-in builds and that everything has been set up correctly. That’s all the config you need! Now click Save Project and Open in IDE. Then tick Plugin MIDI input and Plugin MIDI output in the 'Plugin Characteristics' field below. In this tutorial we are creating a VST3 plug-in, so make sure that the VST3 setting is ticked in the 'Plugin Formats' field. You can change these settings at any time. In the Projucer’s configuration settings for the new project, you can change project settings, such as which plug-in types you wish to export and whether the plug-in receives or produces MIDI notes (amongst many other things).

See Tutorial: Projucer Part 1: Getting started with the Projucer if you don't know how to do that. To create an audio plug-in with JUCE, create a new project in the Projucer and select Audio Plug-In as the project type. If you are not familiar with the Projucer yet, please read Tutorial: Projucer Part 1: Getting started with the Projucer first.ĭownload and install plug-in dependenciesĪll of the files that you need to create VST3 and AU (MacOS only) plug-ins are packaged with JUCE (as long as you are using a recent version of JUCE).Ĭreate an audio plug-in project with the Projucer Launch the Projucer application, which is located in your JUCE folder.

Your user home folder is a convenient place. Unpack the JUCE folder and place it to some location on your computer.

This tutorial will help you to set up your computer and create an Projucer project for developing audio plug-ins (VST3 and AudioUnit) using JUCE.Īt the end, we will end up with an audio plug-in that says 'Hello, World!' and can be loaded into VST3 hosts like Cubase or REAPER.ĭownload JUCE.

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