Awesome Audio Plugins [](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)

A curated list of awesome audio plugin-related tools and resources, as well as some open source plugins, too.

Contents

• APIs
• Libraries
• Development tools
• Online Communities

• More Lists

APIs

CLAP - A featureful, cross platform, open source plugin API that is supported by many different DAWs in C with bindings to many languages.

VST - A cross platform, widely supported plugin format used by most DAWs made by Steinberg, written in C++. The latest version is VST3.

LV2 - A cross platform (I'm assuming), open source standard-based API.

AU - Apple's open source, Apple-based OS only plugin API. Mainly used with Logic Pro DAW.

AAX - Avid's proprietary plugin API, intended (almost) exclusively for Pro Tools.

Libraries

CPAL - A Rust-based cross platform audio I/O library.

FFmpeg - A popular open source project containing the libav* libraries, which are very helpful in converting audio and video between different filetypes and codecs.

Development Tools

PyPhonic - An open source VST plugin coming soon that lets you write your own custom backend in Python.

Nih-plug - A framework that is meant to make writing VST3 and CLAP plugins easier in the Rust programming language.

Online Communities

Rust Audio Discord - A Discord server dedicated to writing audio software in Rust.

KVR Audio Forum - A forum dedicated to plugin development.

More Lists

Awesome Audio DSP - A great list of everything DSP-related, featuring almost everything in this list, and more!

Awesome Rust Audio - An awesome(TM) list of audio programming tools specifically meant for the Rust language.