My weekend hack: Write VST plugins in JavaScript
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AdmiralQuality AdmiralQuality https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=83902
- Banned
- 6657 posts since 10 Oct, 2005 from Toronto, Canada
I have a special spot in my heart for JavaScript. Before I did this, I used to code a lot of websites, and JS was easy because it was like a retarded, typeless, C++, which I already knew before the dumb internet came around and turned everything into text string processing.
Lots of languages are C and C++-like. PHP is another. Perl, as much as I hate it, was basically C-like.
If you know C, you have the gateway to most other modern languages. I can't emphasize enough the value of knowing just straight, old fashioned C. That's why I think a plug-in framework that let you write the single sample process call in straight-C would be awesome. Even more so if you could edit the code and hear results in real-time, without needing to restart your host or even re-instantiate the plug-in.
Lots of languages are C and C++-like. PHP is another. Perl, as much as I hate it, was basically C-like.
If you know C, you have the gateway to most other modern languages. I can't emphasize enough the value of knowing just straight, old fashioned C. That's why I think a plug-in framework that let you write the single sample process call in straight-C would be awesome. Even more so if you could edit the code and hear results in real-time, without needing to restart your host or even re-instantiate the plug-in.
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- KVRian
- 1272 posts since 11 Apr, 2002 from Nashville, TN
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- KVRian
- 1278 posts since 24 May, 2004
Here's something remotely similar in its idea, but more developed: http://hise.audio
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Zaphod (giancarlo) Zaphod (giancarlo) https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=111268
- KVRAF
- 2610 posts since 23 Jun, 2006
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Zaphod (giancarlo) Zaphod (giancarlo) https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=111268
- KVRAF
- 2610 posts since 23 Jun, 2006
Me toodeastman wrote:Doh! I just read through this whole discussion without realizing it was a necro topic.
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- KVRian
- 1272 posts since 11 Apr, 2002 from Nashville, TN
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- KVRian
- 1272 posts since 11 Apr, 2002 from Nashville, TN
- KVRAF
- 16799 posts since 8 Mar, 2005 from Utrecht, Holland
AbstractBill posted 3 times. Last active:
Wed Jun 27, 2012 20:58
Smells a bit like sock puppet as well...
Wed Jun 27, 2012 20:58
Smells a bit like sock puppet as well...
We are the KVR collective. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. 
My MusicCalc is served over https!!
My MusicCalc is served over https!!
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- KVRian
- 1272 posts since 11 Apr, 2002 from Nashville, TN
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- KVRAF
- 2655 posts since 13 Mar, 2004
That's about Jesusonic (or short JSFX), not JavaScript.

