# vst-rs

**Repository Path**: mirrors_inikulin/vst-rs

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: vst-rs
- **Description**: VST 2.4 API implementation in rust. Create plugins or hosts. Previously rust-vst on the RustDSP group.
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-08-08
- **Last Updated**: 2025-09-13

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## README

# vst-rs
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`vst-rs` is a library for creating VST2 plugins in the Rust programming language.

This library is a work in progress, and as such it does not yet implement all
functionality. It can create basic VST plugins without an editor interface.

**Note:** If you are upgrading from a version prior to 0.2.0, you will need to update
your plugin code to be compatible with the new, thread-safe plugin API. See the
[`transfer_and_smooth`](examples/transfer_and_smooth.rs) example for a guide on how
to port your plugin.

## Library Documentation
  - https://rustaudio.github.io/vst-rs/vst/

## Crate
This crate is available on [crates.io](https://crates.io/crates/vst).  If you prefer the bleeding-edge, you can also
include the crate directly from the official [Github repository](https://github.com/rustaudio/vst-rs).

```toml
# get from crates.io.
vst = "0.2.0"
```
```toml
# get directly from Github.  This might be unstable!
vst = { git = "https://github.com/rustaudio/vst-rs" }
```

## Usage
To create a plugin, simply create a type which implements `plugin::Plugin` and
`std::default::Default`. Then call the macro `plugin_main!`, which will export
the necessary functions and handle dealing with the rest of the API.

## Example Plugin
A simple plugin that bears no functionality. The provided Cargo.toml has a
crate-type directive which builds a dynamic library, usable by any VST host.

`src/lib.rs`

```rust
#[macro_use]
extern crate vst;

use vst::plugin::{Info, Plugin};

#[derive(Default)]
struct BasicPlugin;

impl Plugin for BasicPlugin {
    fn get_info(&self) -> Info {
        Info {
            name: "Basic Plugin".to_string(),
            unique_id: 1357, // Used by hosts to differentiate between plugins.

            ..Default::default()
        }
    }
}

plugin_main!(BasicPlugin); // Important!
```

`Cargo.toml`

```toml
[package]
name = "basic_vst"
version = "0.0.1"
authors = ["Author <author@example.com>"]

[dependencies]
vst = { git = "https://github.com/rustaudio/vst-rs" }

[lib]
name = "basicvst"
crate-type = ["cdylib"]
```

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#### Packaging on OS X

On OS X VST plugins are packaged inside of loadable bundles.
To package your VST as a loadable bundle you may use the `osx_vst_bundler.sh` script this library provides. 

Example: 

```
./osx_vst_bundler.sh Plugin target/release/plugin.dylib
Creates a Plugin.vst bundle
```

## Special Thanks
[Marko Mijalkovic](https://github.com/overdrivenpotato) for [initiating this project](https://github.com/overdrivenpotato/rust-vst2)