Newbie needs help getting started

Hello everybody,

I'm a newbie willing to learn coding my own plug-ins. I programmed for many years in Basic/Visual Basic and I recently started learning C++. I also know quite a lot about synthesis and audio in general, but I don't know where to start coding some DSP. I know it's going to take time, but I'm really motivated (and luckly I have lot of free time I can use). I was really inspired by Michael Norris plugins (powerful stuff but no GUI).

Anyway, after reading a lot of threads here I managed to get the IntroJucer working with a basic Hello World! I also managed to add a button and a knob but I don't know how to make them do something.

For example how can I control the gain/volume/pan/whatever with that knob?

Are there any examples of "simple" effects with few controls? Something like a delay or vibrato/tremolo? Or someone willing to explain what should I do to get there?

Many thanks to Jules for making something so awesome. When I saw my "Hello World!" loading in the DAW I must have looked like a baby in a candy store :)

 

I found this really simple tutorial that could be useful to newbies like me: http://audioplugintutorial.blogspot.it/

I also managed to do some alternative ways of applying gain:

        float* samples = buffer.getWritePointer(0);

        const int numSamples = buffer.getNumSamples();

        for (int i = 0; i < numSamples; ++i)

        {

            samples[i] = samples[i] * gain;

        };

Now what can I do to the samples to get some basic effect (tremolo, vibrato, filtered)? I guess I can use math to alter the content but I don't even know where to start.

 

http://musicdsp.org

Also try googling.

Rail

Many thanks. Yes I'm trying to read lots of stuff but for now everything looks really really complex.

I tried to copy the delay from the juce demo without luck. I'll keep reading/studying and trying.

Thanks!

This is a good reference for all audio-related software stuff, try to flip through it at a library.

 

Regarding online documentation the STK tutorials are quite good for grasping the basics of it.

Note that they deal with offline processing first (e.g. from/into WAV file). I really think that it is worth thinking to it first, since this way you won't have to deal with real-time issues.

Once you get how the plumbing works, dive into STK code and see how they do what they're doing - synthesis, filtering, etc.

edit: they do deal with real-time using RtAudio, which is still easier than audio plugins debugging hell.