Designing Software Synthesizer Plug-Ins in C++

Preface

Many times during the course of the book development, I asked myself what in the world was I thinking. I should write a book with three different plug-in APIs and platforms? Really? In reality, I have very legitimate ulterior motives: to show the three APIs side-by-side in order to demonstrate just how similar they really are despite all the differences in implementation details. This was one of the points in my first book Designing Audio Effect Plug-Ins in C++, which uses RackAFX exclusively as both a teaching tool and a quick and easy way to get real-time signal processing code up and running with a minimum of effort. In the last two years, I’ve received correspondence from all over the world regarding that book and the RackAFX ...