Audio Plugin Systems For Linux

• LADSPA The central site for information regarding the Linux Audio Developers Simple Plugin API, maintained by Richard W. E. Furse; also home to the CMT computer musician's toolkit collection of plugins.
  • Audio::LADSPA Perl extensions for hosting LADSPA plugins
  • BLOP band-limited oscillator LADSPA plugins from Mike Rawes
  • CAPS the C* Audio Plugin Suite from Tim Goetze, a collection of LADSPA plugins for amplifier emulation, effects processing, reverb, EQ and many other functions
  • Demolition is "a destruction testing tool for LADSPA plugins"
  • DLADSPA "distributed LADSPA", groups several in a chain to create a single meta-plugin, from Nelson Posse Lago
  • FA Plugins excellent LADSPA plugins from Fons Adriaensen
  • Jezabel "a collection of LADSPA plugins designed to be used as building blocks for GUI or text-based audio applications under Linux"
  • LCP Perl from David Riley, scripts for controlling LADSPA plugins via text-mode or graphic interfaces
  • Lemux "a collection of LADSPA instruments based on devices from the openMSX emulator and other sources"
  • NJL Plugins LADSPA goodness from Nick Lamb
  • Soundtank Jacob Robbins' LADSPA host designed for making and playing softsynths
  • SWH Plugins the must-have set from Steve Harris
  • TAP Tom's Audio Plugins, a set of LADSPA plugins from Tom Szilagyi
  • VLevel a "look-ahead" dynamics compressor, available as a command-line app and a LADSPA plugin
  • WASP the WAve Sculpting Plugins from Artemiy I. Pavlov
  • XMMS-LADSPA a plugin to host plugins, from Nick Lamb
  • ladspapluginmaker GUI for creating LADSPA-compatible audio plug-ins, from the makers of GDAM
  • ladspar "a Ruby module for using LADSPA plugins", from Hans Fugal
  • liblrdf Steve Harris's "...library for handling RDF descriptions of LADSPA (and potentially other format) plugins"
• DSSI The Disposable SoftSynth Interface, a "LADSPA for instruments" API from Chris Cannam, Sean Bolton, and Steve Harris.
  • Oscilloscope scope plugin with two channels, controllable trigger, time resolution, separate amplification and DC offset for both channels
  • Sineshaper a monophonic DSSI synthesizer from Lars Luthman
  • WhySynth more DSSI synth plugin excellence from Sean Bolton
  • dssi_convolve a handy convolution plugin from Florian Schmidt
  • hexter is a "... software synthesizer that models the sound generation of a Yamaha DX7", DSSI plugin goodness from Sean Bolton
  • nekosynth DSSI synth plugin pleasure from Gordon JC Pearce
• MESS Werner Schweer's MusE Experimental SoftSynth API, designed for easily building custom softsynths. MESS also enables VST support within MusE.
  • From release 0.7 onwards the MusE package includes two MESS softsynths, Nil Geisweiller's DeicsOnze, a 4-operator FM synth emulator, and Mathias Lundgren's Simpledrums, a basic drum sampler plugin.
• VST/VSTi Yes, they can be run under Linux, but only under specific conditions. See the Linux VST/VSTi Tutorial for more detailed information.
  • FST in-process VST/VSTi support from Torben Hohn and Paul Davis
  • VST/VSTi Plugins For Linux Database a community service project from Tim Orford
  • dssi-vst a bridge for running VST plugins with the DSSI
  • kvraudio good site for locating VST/VSTi plugins
  • vstserver Kjetil Matheussen's remarkable (now deprecated) server for running VST plugins under Linux (requires WINE); this site also serves up Kjetil's vsti dedicated VSTi server, the LADSPA/VST host, and his k_vst~ object for Pd