Audio Plugin Systems For Linux
NB: As of April 2015 the VST/VSTi plugins section has been moved to its own page. Please see VST/VSTi Plugins For Linux for that list.
- 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.
- Autotalent Tom Baran takes on the Autotune challenge.
- 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.
- CSA LADSPA plugins designed for FM broadcasting "and more".
- 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".
- JMMCD LADSPA and DSSI plugins from James Michael McDermott.
- LADSPA Trigger Plugin Audio trigger/replacer plugin.
- LEET "Carefully crafted plugins, reprogrammed ... especially for use with Ardour."
- LGV Plugins LADSPA goodness from Luis Garrido.
- LoserLadspa A project to port Michael Gruhn's Jesusonic plugins.
- Millenium Plugin Suite LADSPA plugins from Pxu.
- Omins Plugins designed for use with modular synthesizers, from Dave Robillard and friends.
- SWH Plugins The must-have set from Steve Harris.
- TAP Tom's Audio Plugins, a set of LADSPA plugins from Tom Szilagyi.
- VCF Plugins Filters from Matthias Nagorni.
- VLevel A "look-ahead" dynamics compressor, available as a command-line app and a LADSPA plugin.
- Vocoder Achim Settelmeier's useful plugin.
- WASP Wave-sculpting plugins from Artemiy Pavlov.
- WubFlip distortion goodness from Alex Sisson.
- blepvco Oscillator plugins from Sean Bolton.
- 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. The URL also points to the xsynth-dssi and fluidsynth-dssi plugins.
- JMMCD LADSPA and DSSI plugins from James Michael McDermott.
- Neko* Bass, plucked string, organ, and string synthesizer plugins from Gordon JC Pearce.
- WhySynth More DSSI synth plugin excellence from Sean Bolton.
- hexter is a "... software synthesizer that models the sound generation of a Yamaha DX7", DSSI plugin goodness from Sean Bolton.
- sineshaper Monophonic synth from Lars Luthman. This link also hosts LL's oscilloscope DSSI plugin.
- LV2 The much-improved successor to LADSPA. A Linux audio plugin standard for the 21st century.
- CALF Plugins An excellent collection from Krzysztof Foltman and Thor Harald Johansen.
- EQ10Q 10-band equalizer with resonance control, from Pere Ràfols Soler.
- Foo YC-20 Sampo Savolainen's emulation of Yamaha's famous organ synthesizer.
- IR An excellent convolution reverb from Tom Szilagyi.
- LinuxSampler The mighty LinuxSampler is also an LV2 instrument plugin. Sweet.
- LV2 Instruments Three synths from developer Lars Luthman.
- Russolo Suite A set of noise-oriented plugins for the Futurist in all of us.
- SWH Plugins - LV2 Steve Harris's LADSPA set revised for modern times.
- Synths from 50m30n3 Jeremy Salwen's ports of a feedback droner, a piano synth, and a bassline synth.
- TalentedHack Jeremy Salwen's port of the popular Autotalent LADSPA plugin by Tom Baran.
- Teliasopia Compressor and filter plugins.
- Visual Compressor A compressor-with-GUI from Joe Button.
- VocProc Igor Brkic's plugin for pitch shifting with optional formant correction, vocoding, pitch correction and harmonization.
- Zyn A project to "... extract synth engines from ZynAddSubFX and pack them in LV2 plugin format."
- abGate An LV2 noise gate from Antanas Bruzas.
- linuxDSP Excellent suite with plugins for EQ, compression, reverb and more. Standalone and native VST versions also available. Highly recommended.
- ll-plugins LV2 plugins from Lars Luthman, set includes the Elven host for LV2 plugs.
- lv2rack/zynjacku JACK-based hosts for LV2 effects and instrument plugins.
- lv2vocoder Vocoding fun from Nedko Arnaudov.
- psyn Peter Nelson's synthesizer plugin.
- 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.
- Festige A nice GUI for launching your VST plugins under Linux.
- 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.