Some time ago I made a VST host designed to act as a pedalboard for my guitar, controlled via a hacked joystick-cum-footpedal. It was pretty ugly, and not very good, and I never really used it as much as I was expecting to.
Recently though, I found myself again in need of a decent plugin host for live use. Looking around, it seems there still isn't a good free/low cost solution that would suit me, so I re-wrote the pedalboard.
It's based on the JUCE 'audio plugin host' code, which let me avoid having to code the trickier hosting stuff, though there was still a fair bit of work involved in getting everything working the way I wanted.
The key features are:
- Modular patching (fixing a major limitation of the previous app).
- All plugin parameters can be manipulated in real time via MIDI CCs or Open Sound Control messages.
- Any number of patches can be queued up and rapidly switched between.
Download here