SpotlightKid / dfzitarev1

A feedback-delay-network reverb plugin built with DPF and based on FAUST library demo code

DF Zita Rev1

A feedback-delay-network reverb plugin built with DPF and based on a FAUST library demo.

Formats

This plugin is available in the following plug-in formats by default:

• CLAP (de.chrisarndt.dfzitarev1)
• LV2 (https://chrisarndt.de/plugins/dfzitarev1)
• VST3 (dfzitarev1.vst3)

The following formats are not built by default, but can be enabled when compiling (see "Compiling"):

• LADSPA (dfzitarev1-ladspa.so)
• VST2 (dfzitarev1-vst.so)

The plugin depends on the host to provide a generic UI to control parameters.

Compiling

Make sure you have installed the required build tools and libraries (see section "Prerequisites" below) and then clone this repository (including sub-modules) and simply run make in the project's root directory:

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/SpotlightKid/dfzitarev1.git
$ cd dfzitarev1
$ make

To enable building additional plugin formats, which are not enabled by default (LADSPA, VST2), pass BUILD_LADSPA=true resp. BUILD_VST2=true to make. For example:

make BUILD_VST2=true

The same settings must be passed to make install to also install optional plugin formats.

Installation

To install all plugin formats to their appropriate system-wide location, run the following command (root priviledges may be required):

make install

The makefiles support the usual PREFIX and DESTDIR variables to change the installation prefix and set an installation root directory (defaulty: empty). PREFIX defaults to /usr/local, but on macOS and Windows it is not used, since the system-wide installation directories for plugins are fixed.

Use make's -n option to see where the plugins would be installed without actually installing them.

You can also set the installation directory for each plugin format with a dedicated makefile variable.

• CLAP: CLAP_DIR (<prefix>/lib/clap)
• LADSPA: LADSPA_DIR (<prefix>/lib/ladspa)
• LV2: LV2_DIR (<prefix>/lib/lv2)
• VST2: VST_DIR (<prefix>/lib/vst)
• VST2: VST_DIR (<prefix>/lib/vst3)

Example: make DESTDIR=/tmp/build-root VST_DIR=/usr/lib/lxvst install

To install the plugins only for your current user account, run make install-user.

Again, you can also set the installation directory for each plugin format with a dedicated makefile variable.

• CLAP: USER_CLAP_DIR ($HOME/.clap)
• LADSPA: USER_LADSPA_DIR ($HOME/.ladspa)
• LV2: USER_LV2_DIR ($HOME/.lv2)
• VST2: USER_VST_DIR ($HOME/.vst)
• VST3: USER_VST_DIR ($HOME/.vst3)

Note: The given default values for all of the above listed environment variables differ depending on the target OS.

Prerequisites

• The GCC C++ compiler, library and the usual associated software build tools (make, etc.).

  Debian / Ubuntu users should install the build-essential package to get these, Arch users the base-devel package group.

• patch

• pkgconf

• The faustpp pre-processor and FAUST (optional)

The CLAP, LV2, LADSPA, VST2 (vestige) and VST3 headers are included in the DPF framework, which is integrated as a Git sub-module. These need not be installed separately to build the software in the respective plug-in formats.

faustpp and FAUST are only needed to re-generate C++ source and headers files if the FAUST DSP source files in the faust directory are changed.

Author

This software was put together by Christopher Arndt.

License

This plugin is released under the MIT License. Please see the LICENSE.md file for details.

Acknowledgements

The DSP code is generated from the FAUST sources via the faustpp pre-processor and uses the dm.zita_rev1 demo from the FAUST library, written by Julius O. Smith III ¹, which is a re-implementation of zita-rev1 by Fons Adriaensen, writen in C++.

The project is built using the DISTRHO Plugin Framework (DPF) and set up with the cookiecutter-dpf-faust project template.

Footnotes

1. https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/book2000/Zita_Rev1.html ↩