PluginUI.Host 0.5.0

.NET 10.0 This package targets .NET 10.0. The package is compatible with this framework or higher. 
dotnet add package PluginUI.Host --version 0.5.0
                    


                    

                
NuGet\Install-Package PluginUI.Host -Version 0.5.0
This command is intended to be used within the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, as it uses the NuGet module's version of Install-Package. 
<PackageReference Include="PluginUI.Host" Version="0.5.0" />
For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package. 
<PackageVersion Include="PluginUI.Host" Version="0.5.0" />
                    


                            Directory.Packages.props
                        

                    

                
<PackageReference Include="PluginUI.Host" />
                    


                            Project file
For projects that support Central Package Management (CPM), copy this XML node into the solution Directory.Packages.props file to version the package. 
paket add PluginUI.Host --version 0.5.0
                    


                    

                
#r "nuget: PluginUI.Host, 0.5.0"
#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package. 
#:package PluginUI.Host@0.5.0
#:package directive can be used in C# file-based apps starting in .NET 10 preview 4. Copy this into a .cs file before any lines of code to reference the package. 
#addin nuget:?package=PluginUI.Host&version=0.5.0
                    


                            Install as a Cake Addin
                        

                    

                
#tool nuget:?package=PluginUI.Host&version=0.5.0
                    


                            Install as a Cake Tool

PluginUI.Host

Audio plug-in host for .NET 10: loads VST3 plug-ins (and VST 2 ones with PluginUI.Host.Vst2) and runs them from your own code, offline or live, without any user interface dependency. NativeAOT compatible, no reflection, allocation-free on the audio thread.

  • Vst3Module: opens a .vst3 file or bundle (Windows x64 / ARM64, Linux), or an NPlug factory in the same process (Vst3Module.FromFactory(factory.Export())), and lists its classes.
  • PluginInstance / Vst3Plugin: buses and channel layouts, parameters (display text, typed values with units, normalized values; changes from any thread reach the audio thread through a lock-free queue), notes and MIDI controllers (through the plug-in's IMidiMapping), latency and tail, transport (tempo, signature, position), state and .vstpreset files, MIDI the plug-in produces (OutputMidi), editor window (CreateEditor() gives a PluginEditor; Attach(HWND)).
  • PluginCatalog / PluginScanner / HostSettings: plug-in folders in a settings file, scan in a separate process (a crashing plug-in is marked as failed instead of stopping the host), incremental rescans, the list kept in plugins.json with favorites and usage; queries by text, format, instrument / effect and a dozen sort orders. One list of folders, searched for both formats.
  • OfflineRenderer: renders a chain of plug-ins on a WAV file or a MIDI file, with latency compensation and tails; the MIDI of each plug-in feeds the next one.
  • Live audio: AudioDriver and IAudioRenderer (the devices are in PluginUI.Host.Windows: ASIO, WASAPI, MIDI ports), NullAudioDriver, PluginRack (plug-ins played live, each with its source, bypass, mute, gain, meter and MIDI routing), signal sources (device input, test signals, audio files).
  • ResponseMeasurer: magnitude and phase responses (impulse with FFT, or stepped sine), impulse response.
  • WavFile (16 / 24 / 32-bit integer, 32 / 64-bit float, more than two channels), MidiFile (reads types 0 and 1 with their tempo map, writes type 0).

Build the application that loads plug-ins with <CETCompat>false</CETCompat>: some plug-ins are not compatible with the CET shadow stack .NET enables by default, and Windows ends the process (0xC0000409 in ntdll).

The pluginhost command line tool and the Plug-in Host application of the repository are built on this package. Guide: https://github.com/asm8086/PluginUI/blob/main/docs/PLUGIN_HOST.md

Product Compatible and additional computed target framework versions.
.NET net10.0 is compatible.  net10.0-android was computed.  net10.0-browser was computed.  net10.0-ios was computed.  net10.0-maccatalyst was computed.  net10.0-macos was computed.  net10.0-tvos was computed.  net10.0-windows was computed. 
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  • net10.0

    • No dependencies.

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PluginUI.Host.Vst2

VST 2.4 plug-in hosting for PluginUI.Host: scanning (shell plug-ins included), 32-bit float processing, MIDI in and out, parameters, programs, .fxp / .fxb presets, editors. Written from the public description of the VST 2.4 interface; no part of the Steinberg SDK is used. NativeAOT compatible.
PluginUI.Host.Windows

Windows audio and MIDI devices for PluginUI.Host: ASIO, WASAPI output and input (shared mode, low latency through IAudioClient3), MIDI input and output (winmm). NativeAOT compatible.

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