CulSynth is currently a DSP library and nih-plug based virtual instrument written in Rust.
Try the demo!
The eventual goal is to create a synthesizer that can be deployed both as a virtual instrument and on embedded hardware, to allow users to prototype sound designs with the expressiveness of physical knobs and hardware then seamlessly move those patches into a virtual instrument inside a DAW for further use without requiring sampling or reprogramming.
The plugin can either be used as a standalone binary by building and then running
the culsynth-standalone binary, or can be used as a VST3/CLAP plugin. Currently
only VST3 is being tested. Generating the plugin is simple: just build it for
your platform then copy the generated .so or .dll file to your VST plugins
folder:
On Linux:
$ cargo build --release
$ cp target/release/libculsynth_plugin.so ~/.vst3/culsynth.vst3On Windows:
> cargo build --release
> copy target\release\libculsynth_plugin.dll C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\culsynth.vst3The source code to this project is licensed under the MIT license. Any compiled binaries built with the 'vst3' feature are licensed under the terms of the GPLv3 due to GPL-licensed dependencies with this feature. All builds incorporate several dependencies under the MIT, Apache v2, BSD, ISC, Boost, and ZLib licenses.
This project incorporates fonts from the Noto Project and Google under the terms
of the SIL Open Font License v1.1 (see resources/fonts/OFL.txt).
For Rust dependencies, see Cargo.toml.
On Linux, the following packages (Debian names provided, but should be similar on other distros) need to be installed in order to successfully compile:
libx11-xcb-devlibxcb-icccm4-devlibxcb-dri2-0-devlibasound2-devlibglu1-mesa-devlibjack-jackd2-dev
- Documentation - currently exists, but very light on specifics/examples
- Better UI for modulation - currently must manually edit the matrix
- Fixed point profiling/optimization
- More MIDI CC implementations, patch memory, etc.
- Port to RPi Pico