I tried making my own VST plugin, so you don't have to.

In this video I’m gonna show the way of making your own VST plugin using HISE. Hise is a toolkit based on JUCE, which is great for audio plugin development. This was a video I wanted to do for a while, but was too challenging to get down to it. Well, it's finally finished! Hope you enjoy this video.
Rafael's JUCE gain slider tutorial- • Make Your First VST Pl...
David's channel - / @dhealey
Introduction to HISE - • Introduction to HISE 2022
Building HISE for Windows - • Building HISE on Windo...
Thumbnail inspiration - • i spent 3 months learn...
Music bit at 3:32 - Young Mooski - 6am (TOKYOPILL Remix)
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0:00 - intro
0:40 - plan
1:08 - about JUCE
1:56 - about HISE
2:30 - setting up the enviroment
2:46 - starting in HISE
3:22 - starting with script node
6:20 - starting with interface
6:55 - making the UI design
7:48 - plugin in action
8:15 - outro
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#ableton #development #vstplugins

[@DHealey]

Nice video, and thanks for the mention! :)

[@6shootaa]

i’d go with hise maize before romplur ! i purchased all 3 and hise was honestly the best 4 me

[@makobeats]

nice pfp lol

[@mavdotj]

Being a dev & music producer, this actually just warmed my heart

[@christophhart6643]

HISE Author here, congrats to the video, it's really nice to see people make their stuff using my framework! Were you the one having problems with the slash in the Dry / Wet parameter in the forum?

[@Beatsbasteln]

it's cool to see how easy it is to put some dsp and parameters together with HISE, but don't be afraid of just using JUCE and C++. It is actually one of the most easy to understand languages. I mean most of the time you just write classes, then make objects of those and let them do things. when people say C++ is hard they are talking about it from a more theoretical perspective. like how hard the language can be if you try to understand every aspect about it and if you try to understand how it works under the hood. but I personally just like to drive a car. I don't need to be the mechanic

[@C.S.Argudo]

Deadass though, I took a break from production to learn to code and found out it's not THAT insane

[@TheOfficalAndI]

When I made a calculator in C++ though, I've had a bunch of troubles with arrays and pointers. Sometime passing them as an argument I wanted to reference the original array, and sometimes make a copy of it, and I am still not sure how to do each. Also having Function heads and bodies split, no method for getting an array length (you only get its memory size, and need to divide it with how much memory your variable type takes), and iirc there weren't even strings as a type, you had to make a char array, it's definitely not intuitive to use, compared to Java, C# and Javascript. Worth learning though.

[@MRL8770]

It seems easy at first, then you realize just how many sneaky traps it has and how deep you can go and exploit its features, then it becomes easy once again. Dunning-Kruger effect.

[@isafi6408]

@@TheOfficalAndI you can define a string like std::string str = "string"; or std::string str("string"); you don't have to use c-style strings (null byte terminated char arrays). to pass an object by reference you use the "address of" operator, '&': #include // using a string here, but this works for any type void changeStr(std::string& str) { str = "goodbye world"; } int main() { std::string str = "hello world"; std::cout

[@Temulgeh]

​@@TheOfficalAndI you might be thinking of C? C++ has strings and arrays that know their size (as well as dynamic arrays called vectors) also, understanding values/pointers/references is crucial to understanding how most languages work (basically all imperative languages)

[@Kupta]

I always wondered how plugins are made but the knowledge on this topic online is really limited and not really talked about. Thank you for this video!

[@adentravis]

Yes! I just started using HISE a few months ago, and just recently released my own plugin, it's awesome to see what other people in the community are making! Great video!

[@Herfinnur]

I honestly was just running this video in the background while doing my morning routine, but something clicked when you - of all things - started talking about the UI, and now I'm so fired up that the breakfast feels weird in my mouth! Somewhere around the millenium there was this plugin that I got to use on someone else's computer and I freaking loved it, but I never found it again and I'm guessing they took it off the market. The UI was white knobs, sliders and buttons on a white background and it was conceived as a all-in-one mixing strip for making your first quick sketch. I was new to music making so I don't know if the quality of it was actually good, but it had so much functionality but no fluff, and the UI design and layout was better than on anything I've eve used since. If anyone here is old enough to know what plugin in talking about I would be very grateful for any info, but apart from that, I now want to make that plugin!

[@orokan]

Was it a VST called "Voyager"?

[@Phosfit]

Eggwhite

[@AB_ATT]

Waves Renaissance Channel?

[@Herfinnur]

Found it! TeamDNR Mixcontrol 1.0! Everyone else hated the plain user interface of that first version, apparently. Now that I’ve had a fresh look at it, I can see that the EQ section is kind of dumb, but I still love the concept of the rest, i.e., the left side of the user interface, and I’m going to write and sketch some ideas for how to improve it. Thank you for your suggestions everybody, I honestly didn’t know any of your suggested plugins so it’s been interesting to look into

[@orokan]

@@Herfinnur Awesome! Glad you found it :D

[@alexsnower8398]

Yes, perfect content! We wanna see more videos like this 🔥

[@24Carrrot]

Yooo this video is actually insane, Ive been using juce for a while and as much as i love the control i have over everything, HISE looks like a great option for quickly making test projects and fun ideas. Super video and i love the formatting too!!

[@somethingc00l1]

this video is amazing. ive always wanted to do this and I followed along with the video and made my own plugin! thank you so much for making this!

[@EdTalenti]

Amazing video!

[@ninjajakee]

This vid is soo cool, id love to see a part 2!

[@proxzi]

great video, I really like the approach you took🤙🏻nice job 💯

[@shrqdubs827]

how have i never heard of hise before 😭

[@ynsanytsk]

ngl, youtube recommended this video and on first 40sec you got me subscribed, amazing!

[@tedTV_1]

U just uploaded the perfect video for me, thank u! 🙏

[@portlandhorton]

I would definitely love more videos on this topic 🤝

[@Difixed]

really good video, loved the editing and congrats on the video popping off xd

[@rebirth4119]

Another great way to build a plugin with visual scripting is through the program Plugdata. Its workflow is node based and doesn't require writing code and its design is optimized so cpu usage is as minimum as possible. A well known producer called Nasko has currently made a spectral envelope follower and a spectral compressor/clipper hybrid(with an option to retain important formants). The only downside is that plugins made can only be ran as long as you have the base program(similar to Reaktor in that way.

[@autotune5320]

Sick!

[@ElRacoonMusic]

Top notch!

[@user-ce9ym6fr9j]

Can you please make more videos like this. You’re really crossing the divide here and bringing this to the public to help them.

[@iFeature]

Thats pretty sick!

[@ROSACEPONY]

I like to use HISE too, but now i'm also learning PlugData wich look really interesting to make VST plugins

[@dumaass]

Thanks for making this. I've had ideas for plugins that I don't have, but would like to, so I might try making those.

[@notreally-sf3df]

Name three.

[@dumaass]

@@notreally-sf3df I only remember one. A reversed reverb that starts before the actual sample plays. It's been used as a vocal effect on Starcraft's Protoss' speech. Also I'll edit the comment to say "plugins that I don't have." Don't know why I said "that don't exist yet." I do remember having other ideas, though.

[@notreally-sf3df]

@@dumaass Alright that 1) isn't a real time effect, not what a pluigin does. 2) there are plugins that do it as effectively as you can, but there's just no point. 3) Glitch plugins can do it but it's limited and offline as opposed to online. People have min/maxed that for 20 years and it's as good as it's gonna get, just do it properly. We have AMAZING predelay plugins now, but you have to bounce down and align it yourself. Jesus christ, this was even worse than I thought. If you have not yet started making plugins but think you can; something's definitely wrong with you so please stop thinking you're fucking einstein.

[@galactic6495]

@@dumaassyou'd probably have to add a massive amount of latency to do that

[@dumaass]

@@galactic6495 That's true. Or maybe it could just be some kind of rendering tool.

[@busyworksbeats]

Sick! Glad you figured it out! Power to you! Shoutout Producer sources for helping me 🙏

[@BadTrip69]

You should be ashamed of yourself. You fraudster.

[@Heisenberg2097]

Nice video. Cool tool.

[@calvinblack2816]

This video is fire! I have juice downloaded but have never used it 😂

[@Nakanoi]

Good Editing, and good Avatar :D!

[@cosmo499]

i dont even make music or code but this tutorial is so great quality

[@wyasina]

🔥🔥

[@ycthies]

thanks for sharing

[@tiwanndev]

I made my own Soft Clipper plugin using Juce and C++

[@insertbrandaccountnamehere3436]

I've spent the last year skeaming about this idea but took 0 liberties to figure it out myself. Glad you did and put me on! Excited to get around to trying this out myself!!!

[@DIXERION]

I also got into VST plugin development some time ago. I didn't like the way JUCE or other tools were organized so decided to study the interface between the host and the plugin and started making my own framework completely from scratch (without even using the VST SDK). It was progressing great and everything worked fine, but it was so time consuming that I had to suspend this project for doing other stuff that were more useful for me. But I definitely will resume this project in the future.

[@SIKKYBEATS]

dope

[@1e1001]

holy shit, so glad i use linux where we have LADSPA, where a plugin is literally just a tiny shared object. no need to worry about designing an interface or node-based language. only annoying bit is the "id" but i don't think many daw's nowadays care about the id

[@user-my9og2tz2h]

we need more!!!! plz

[@mindblower113]

Thanks

[@cedricwiebe4484]

Awesome video - I always felt like the barrier of doing real vst plugins was way too high! As much as I enjoy doing Patcher presets its not the real thing and it sucks that you are bound to one DAW with these kinda approaches. Insanely good video and I love that its not impossible to get a good result without learning code before 🔥

[@olldomu5790]

pure data is really cool too. can make VSTs with that, and also android apps, run on Pi etc.

[@UncleBlaiden]

Tried doing this with about a year ago for efficiency and experimentation. Got so lost so quickly, the only programing knowledge I had was very basic web dev which didn't translate much haha. But this is my first hearing about HISE and lowkey I think I might be able to do it this time lol.

[@hldfgjsjbd]

Potential is huge, but you will never come back to it :)

[@kriss12loverap]

You should try plug data! Haven’t seen the vid yet but didn’t see it in the thumbnail

[@VNDROID]

would love to see you try out max for live

[@djvidual8288]

Like mentioned, this is like Patcher in FL Studio but universal for every daw.

[@JuhoSprite]

Early gang

[@stuffbyfelix]

Really enjoyed the video! How did you create the 3d avatar images?

[@glueue]

Thanks! I made a 3d model and posed it in blender and then just rendered it!

[@aliahxpiano]

What song is used in the background of the video? Its got the same break used in i really like you pt1 by sewerslvt and i've been looking for it for ages 😭

[@cloudneverclear]

Well I still have to but thanks for telling me how

[@xsploit]

i always wanted to make a sort input from a bass to envelope follower and have it on bass so its follows the lfo of the treble bass

[@RonaldRizz]

Laughs in Max 4 Live No but for real though good vid!

[@GamingOS]

awesome video, you definitely earned a sub from me man. would love to see a follow up where maybe you attempt something more complex, like a granular sampler or some other kind of vst instrument.

[@glueue]

Thanks! Will do!

[@Intikus]

would love a lvl 2 of what code you can write to mess around with the sound, like, how does one create Grains for granulizers?

[@nikitaromashchenko1507]

what song starts playing at 3:33 when floppa apears?

[@pintererestthot]

love it and yes please help us make plugins

[@dolemerchant69]

i just had to do this for my final music technology assignment. i used a program called cabbage which used language Csound. (contributed to by people at my university) my plug-ins weren’t amazing but they got the job done 😂

[@hundeaux]

Would be cool to add your own impulse responses for reverb

[@davidzaydullin]

wow how did i not know about hise before. tried to make plugins with jsfx and plugdata before😭

[@Solanaar]

This is pretty cool! I've been wanting to make a plugin that samples video data to affect audio processing. I wonder how well HISE interacts with other libraries (been using OpenCV for image processing), but since it is based on juce it should in theory work. Right?

[@glueue]

I think JUCE is better suited for things like this, because you can basically right anything from ground up with C++. Not really sure that HISE works with external libraries... But maybe I am wrong!

[@Solanaar]

@@glueue Thanks for the reply! I will probably look into HISE anyways, cause it looks really fun!

[@Iamsteinco]

Would love a Figma tutorial just for audio plugins there’s non no where please

[@InaktiverUser]

can u explain how i cain re design an existing plugin like auto-tune? i want to change the GuI that the color changes from blue to Green, is that possible?

[@JaguarPanda]

Are there alternatives that don't use visual scripting? I'm more comfortable with code and i'd like to get into vst dev (coming from gamedev).

[@sweatygreasemusic]

I run the same hise project as you with some tweak, but it always crash when I open it on ableton, I might run some problem with the exporting, did you know how to fix this, please help me :(

[@kamiien887]

You should have more subscribers

[@knbenji]

An then you discover that in Bitwig Grid you can make basically everithing :D

[@olldomu5790]

then you realise youre tied to bitwig DAW. thay wasnt quite the flex you thought it was

[@pedrolopp]

Dumbest flex I’ve ever seen

[@rindytube]

Denome?

[@artish8008]

Наш слон, с виду видно

[@abdelrahmankhaled8239]

plugin works fine in HISE but in ableton it just doesn't do anything. i can't figure out how to make it work. if you have any idea why it's doing this please let me know Edit: I was exporting it as a midi fx plugin which is incorrect for the simple reverb thing i made. you need to export as Fx plugin. IT WORKS!

[@The_Joo]

Vst to chop amen breaks

[@jtw-r]

Kinda reminds me of Reaktor, but free

[@remymane901]

what if i want to....

[@zeepster]

Could have used Max DSP. it's very similar to Hise.

[@DHealey]

You can import Max patches into HISE using RNBO

[@predawka]

мегахорош

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

Considering you are a Live user, it's strange you didn't try or mention Max or Max4Live.

[@realniyspiderman]

отличный акцент

[@gineall]

гавнент

[@oranjmix]

bruh legit asked GPT about this yesterday too

[@bosch5303]

4:55 intel inside

[@flaflu82]

Try FAUST

[@ChibuikeNwume-hq5yn]

Lowkey u could sell this reverb plugin for like 25$ 😭

[@Savon1c]

Yo (with rizz)

[@Gutz-po9xf]

do caralho

[@BATIOER]

3:32 id pls

[@glueue]

Young Mooski - 6am (TOKYOPILL Remix)

[@GuyPerson-jt9tv]

Oh, was c++ too hard for you, you script-kitty?

[@nerazin3904]

why you sound like polarity

[@MaisonLexBeatz]

He sounds like russian

[@word5856]

@@MaisonLexBeatz he is

[@locopenguin6161]

‼️‼️!!! WARNING !!! ‼️‼️Anyone using HIse please read the pricing plans is detail. Don't hurt yourself or your pocket!!!! Open source does not mean free ware!!!

[@Temulgeh]

bro used a premade reverb and downsampler and called it his own VST 💀

[@glueue]

True! In the end of the day I've only learnt to connect nodes... 💀

[@ivanjermakov]

No real programming there :(

[@glueue]

True... Been looking into figuring out JUCE and working with C++ lately. Will make a video talking more about coding in future.

[@rodeointblud]

Nice video but a terrible idea. Unless you make it for your own needs it’s pretty useless. VST market is about to collapse because it’s so much shit out there already and you only need like a fabfilter bundle.

[@GUNTALE]

oh so its not in c++? dislike.

[@JazJazgot]

Try CLAP next time. VST is a dead standard.

[@Iamsteinco]

Would love a Figma tutorial just for audio plugins there’s non no where please