Build a web assembly synthesiser with iPlug 2

Membership plan: Getting Started | Topics: Creative Coding

Course overview

iPlug2 is a new C++ framework that allows you to build cross-platform audio plug-ins, using minimal code. One of the exciting features of iPlug2 is that it lets you turn your plug-in into a web page that anyone can use without a DAW (see for example https://virtualcz.io).

DISCLAIMER: The codebase and tools used in the videos for this course have evolved since the videos were recorded in 2020. You should be able to achieve the same results with the latest versions of iPlug2, but some steps shown in the materials are outdated. Please note that no support is provided when buying this course.

What you'll learn

Learn how to build a web based synthesiser using cloud based tools, and publish it to a GitHub pages website. We will look at some basic DSP in order to customise the sound of the synthesiser and we will also customise the user interface. The same project builds native audio plug-ins, although in the workshop we will focus on the web version.

Who is this course for?

This course is aimed at people interested in learning how to use iPlug2 C++ audio plugin framework to create a synthesiser that runs on the web.

Course content

Build a web assembly synthesiser with iPlug 2 PART 1

New github link to follow this course
Build a WASM synthesiser with iPlug2 - slides
iPlug2 containerized WAM development
Build a WASM synthesiser with iPlug2 - workshop PART 1
01-Introduction
02-iPlug2 Projects
03-Audio Processing C++
04-Parameters
05-Basic GUI
06-Intro to tasks
07-Setting up VSCode remote containers 1
08-Setting up VSCode remote containers 2
09-Setting up VSCode remote containers 3
10-Building WAM
11-Fixing WAM build
12-Publishing WAM and Native to github

Build a web assembly synthesiser with iPlug 2 Part 2

Build a WASM synthesiser with iPlug2 - workshop 2
Extra Source Code files for TASK 5 & 6
13-Introduction to new tasks
14-Working on tasks 1
15-Working on tasks 2
16-Working on tasks 3
17-Working on tasks 4
18-Working on tasks 5
19-Working on tasks 6
20-Working on tasks 7
21-Working on tasks 8
22-Synth DSP 1
23-Synth DSP 2
24-Wrapping up

Sessions

Requirements

A GitHub account (free)
Visual studio code (free)
A basic familiarity with Git, C++ and audio processing
Docker Desktop installed (free)
Access the repository from this link https://github.com/olilarkin/iPlug2OOS-MusicHackSpace