VST Guide is a tool for audio producers to help them manage their audio asset library.
- VST instruments and effects (VST2 and VST3)
- Kontakt instruments
- Reaktor instruments and effects
- UVI instruments
- Samples (Multi-format)
- Plugin presets
In the future, VST Guide will also support AU, AAX, RTAS, and potentially other types of standardized formats.
Feel free to submit bug reports and feature requests, or to implement the functionality yourself and submit a pull request. We're grateful for any contributions!
This repository consists of a mono-repo of a number of sub-projects which are (or can be) developed independently. The main reason the primary components are all combined into one repository is to allow people to understand and execute the overall application in a simple and consistent way. It also allows people to get up to speed developing the application easily, and be more productive when working on multiple components at once.
Parts of VST Guide are written with Go, while the frontend is written
as an Electron application using the Quasar framework. The frontend
and backend are integrated using go-astelectron to allow for seamless
communication between the two.
Due to Go being the primary backend language, Node.js is only used in
the Vue.js components themselves (meaning it gets compiled to standard
browser JS). electron-remote can be called to access backend
functionality in the same way as you would expect from a pure Electron
app.
Babel is used to compile down from ES6, and thus ES6 should be used for any and all Javascript written for the application to keep things pleasant to write and maintain.
Thanks to MDA for open-sourcing their plugin library (https://sourceforge.net/projects/mda-vst/). Not only are the plugins high quality, but it's a great learning tool for others now, and it can really help packages like Audiorack to automate our testing! Additionally, we can be sure Audiorack works properly with MDA plugins as a result.