CLAP a new plugin architecture

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u-he - CLAP | Clever Audio Plug-in API is a newly announced, open source, audio plugin architecture. I’ve not tried to get out working in Zynthian yet. If it gains traction (and people create good plugins for it) we might take a look. Maybe it will be an itch worth scratching!

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Got Clap yet?

I just ran across some discussions…

Clap Community https://u-he.com/community/clap/

Developers: For latest updates, example code and information check CLAP’s Github page:
https://cleveraudio.org/ Link

Simple example:
https://github.com/schwaaa/clap-imgui

in one discussion:

“I guess people would like to get all the popular commercial plugins natively on Linux. That hasn’t happened with LV2 so far and now they bank on CLAP to provide that.”

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Very nice synths released free in the CLAP format: Full Bucket Music releases another free plugin based on a Korg keyboard you probably haven't heard of | MusicRadar

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More free offerings in CLAP here: The ARP Omni 2 string synth has been reborn in a free plugin, so now everyone can play this late ‘70s classic | MusicRadar

Is there any chance that we could get these working in Zynthian?

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We need details of a CLAP host that works as a standalone headless service and is controlable entirely through midi, osc or python bindings. Then someone to integrate it.

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Zynthian does not currently support CLAP plugins. If someone wanted to put in the effort to add a CLAP wrapper then we would be very happy.

Note that it may be more than that - some (most) plugin formats require the plugin to be compiled for the specific hardware platform. Zynthian currently uses armv7l which is 32-bit ARM. We will be moving to aarch soon which is 64-bit ARM.

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To be a little brutal. The Full Bucket Music plugins look to be a waste of time as they’re precompiled for x86_64 and have no source available. Full Bucket Music would have to build them for our platform. We can’t do anything with them.