qtcleveraudioplugin

This is the proof-of-concept implementation, as highlighted in my thesis. It is feature incomplete, and I'm currently working on a rewrite.

Integration with the CLAP audio plugin standard by utilizing clap-rci in combination with QtGrpc to bridge the gap between professional audio plugins and Qt user interfaces by relying on remote GUIs. This repository holds the client-side implementation for the api provided by clap-rci, tailored to Qt.

Prerequisites

Make sure you are using Qt Version >= 6.6.0, which includes all required modules, and ensure that gRPC is installed

Getting Started

# init the repo with its submodules recursively
git submodule update --init --recursive

# create the build files for 'debug' or 'release' builds
cmake --preset release
# you may need to specify the paths to the appropriate Qt and/or gRPC versions
CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="/path/to/qt;/path/to/grpc" cmake --fresh --preset release

# build the project
cmake --build build/release/

This will build the libraries ClapInterface and ClapControls, as well as the example project. The example project consumes these libraries to provide the CLAP plugin bundle: QtClapPlugins, which contains two simple audio plugins: Gain and Reveal. A CLAP-compatible host can now load these plugins for usage.