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.