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Hosting library and audio plugin for JSFX

This package provides support for audio and MIDI effects developed with the JSFXlanguage. These effects exist in source code form, and they are compiled and rannatively by hosting software.

This contains a hosting library, providing a JSFX compiler and runtime.In addition, there is an audio plugin which can act as a JSFX host in a digitalaudio workstation.

Despite what the name might suggest, JSFX is not JavaScript.These technologies are unrelated to each other.

This project is not the work of Cockos, Inc; however, it is based on severalfree and open source components from the WDL. Originally, this project was basedon jsusfx by Pascal Gauthier, but then it became an entire rewrite made fromscratch.

Some time after the realization of this project, Cockos announced the release ofJSFX as open source under the LGPL. This does not affect the development of thisproject, which remains a custom implementation based on the liberally licensedbits of the WDL.

The audio plugin will initially present the JSFX effects available in the REAPERuser folders, if these exist.

The effects are source code files which end with the extension.jsfx, or withno extension at all.

Note that, unlike REAPER, ysfx will let you install JSFX wherever you want.If you use effects from a custom folder, ysfx will usually figure things out, butnot always.

The ideal hierarchy is one where there exists at least a pair of folders named"Effects" and "Data" side-by-side, which receive the code files and resource filesrespectively.

Example:

• My JSFX/Effects/guitar/amp-model
• My JSFX/Data/amp_models/Marshall JCM800 - Marshall Stock 70.wav

• 32-bit Windows VST3
• 64-bit Windows VST3
• 64-bit GNU/Linux VST3
• macOS Universal AU (self-signed)
• macOS Universal VST3 (self-signed)

To build the project, one must first set up a C++ development environmentequipped with Git and CMake. One can then build the library and the audioplugin, by entering commands as follows:

git clone https://github.com/jpcima/ysfx.gitcd ysfxgit submodule update --init --recursivemkdir buildcd buildcmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo ..cmake --build .

Great free and open-source effects:

• Saike:https://github.com/JoepVanlier/JSFX
• Geraint Luff:https://github.com/geraintluff/jsfx
• Justin Johnson:https://github.com/Justin-Johnson/ReJJ