Formula: an IDE for developing inside your DAW

Useful Tools and Components
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Hi there!
Soundspear released Formula, a free and open-source audio development tool as a VST/AU to live code, test and debug audio code inside a DAW. You can also use it in a standalone mode with a music file.

The concept is simple: you are writing C code that is compiled on the fly and routed to your DAW in multi-mono or stereo. The entry-point takes a float input sample and returns a float output sample. That code will be JIT-compiled & executed in real-time for each sample then streamed to the DAW.

If you want to learn more, there are 8 tutorials bundled with the application to get you started. 4 open-source effects have been bundled as well, 2 from Soundspear and 2 as courtesies from Airwindows.

Download & User manual: Soundspear - High end digital sound processing - VST - AU
Github repo: GitHub - soundspear/formula

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This looks amazing. Very cool for quick prototyping. :heart_eyes:

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This looks interesting! Anyone using this, it looks similar too APE Janus Thorborg's audio portal

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Bumping this thread to announce our latest update: Formula is now bundled with more than 50 effects/synths, to test and learn from.

We’re looking to continuously improve this collection of community effects, so feel free to contribute by exporting your code from Formula and adding it here to our repository by submitting a pull request: formula/formulas at develop · soundspear/formula · GitHub

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