How to develop plugins from scratch (behind the scenes!) 

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If your "how to develop plugins" video contains "hand that off to the dsp-wizard" and "it's a black box mystery to me" it's not a "how to develop plugins" video.

Showing off your Trello and Figma files, then jumping off to final product is NOT "How to develop plugins from scratch"

Would have liked to have seen the steps the developers do too!!

Really awesome insights, I would love to see your some insight from the developer on the actual coding side of it as well!

this is super cool. i've been wanting to see how people develop audio plugins for so long. thank you!!

Congratulations. We love this channel and the plugins.

How to develop a plugin: tell developer to develop plugin! lol all jokes aside this is great insight into how to iterate through a project while delegating to a team, thanks

I'm stoked on the TeloFi launch! Congrats to everyone on the team!

Very cool! Thanks for sharing this!

Very cool video and can't wait for the plugin to be out! I was wondering if your developer has a channel of his own or any insights for learning DSP. Been trying to get into coding software plugins and it would be really cool to see the entire process sometime

Looks really Nice !🙂

Holy smokes this is amazing. exactly what many of us were wondering when it comes to making these things.

Super interesting! Thanks

That's so dope! 😎

Super cool video. I’ve been actually wondering what the process was to make a plug-in

This is awesome

I love good UI design. Kudos!

nice way of organizing ideas :)

Hey, thanks for this insight! What do you use for the licensing system? I'm working on my own VST instrument and trying to figure out the licensing system. Thanks in advance for any help :)

After viewing an other video of yours, where you were talking about how to achieve a good and clean loudness, using a clipper, you mention that you were planning to build your own clipper. So I bought it. I was really please that it came with 4 of your X series...))) But that Clipper has changed how I now approah loudness. Until then I was using Limiter, and really never was satisfied with the end result. Clipper is a game changer....plus your tip about using it on the buse. Yesterday I went to get your Low Control. Sound that's going to be a great one also. Keep up the good work, and thanks a great deal.😇

What program did you use to create the User Interface? And how did you code it so that when you press on buttons it is functional?

would be great to know how you found your DSP and UI developers and how many hours it took them!? 😁

I might be a little late to the party here, but as someone who is interested in doing something like this, what kind of cost or budget could I expect to have from start to finish? It sounds like there were quite a few people involved in making this happen.

Hello, what developer helps you with these plugins?

Who do recommend for coding/programming?

What is the aproximate cost of developing a vst like this one? (or at least the cost of the developer)

At first I was thinking to myself "I already have several plugins like this", but as you started moving the parameters, I was thinking about how many parameters from my existing plugins that I'd have to automate to achieve the same thing. This comes off as a more convenient form of getting the same sounds I already get otherwise. The only thing I could find useful for adding to this is a separate mix knob for the distortion. Maybe a knob inside of a knob, or a second knob beside the overall mix knob. I may want to have have separate blend amounts for the eq curve as well as the distortion without loading two instances of the plugin. Overall, nice job.

You should add a control for the resonance peak of the filters! To me that's often when the magic is when dialling that effect

I have a question relating to step two of this video. Would you have any advice on how to identify and connect with a DSP engineer/plugin developer for a project? I am looking to develop a plugin but I'm new to the process. Thank you for any feedback and for the great content that you create.

The plugin looks very useful, the only thing that would be good is to know if you will see a discount for those of us who have all your plugins, thanks for your time!

Awesome. Really like the idea behind this plug-in. Question: when making this plugins and determining the minimum and max, do you set those with the mindset of you could potentially see yourself using the max setting on certain things or do you set them with the idea that, this definitely would be too much so I would just dial it back a little? I notice I find on other products of yours, like low control and escalator, that I don’t ever end up using more than 20-40% of its max and i was curious if you have situations where you’ve gone beyond that.

Thanks for sharing this great video. I think the UI is simple and masterful! I feel like the "aesthetics" of the final blue on light gray are a bit low contrast, though. My eyes prefer the plainer, alpha version.

How do you find people to work on the DSP side of a plugin. I've been producing for 12 years now and mixing as well and like you I've ran into so many of these things.. I would love to develop or help develop some plugins but how do you find people to work on the back end?

What software do you use?

I think there aren't that many plugins that can do this kind of thing. Combining 2 to 3 plugins into 1 plugin and it's easy to handle is genius

Very cool stuff. I'm curious though, you spoke about having to recreate your telephone effect chain each time. Why not just save a track preset in PT with your chain ready to go? Or alternatively, you can save the fx track in a mix template so it's always there when you start a new session, or you can import session data from the template, or any other session that had the chain in it.

How did you find a proper programmer for this task? That seems to be the hardest thing for me to find.

Super interesting! How many man hours went into the development of this plugin?

Such a dope video to actually see what goes on behind the scenes of plugin development.

🔥❤️

Are there any fb groups out there or resources out there to find developers? JUCE/plugin dev is such a niche, that it’s super hard to find freelance or scout out someone to get for development. Any insight?

I love how the nerd glasses appear on the nerdy subject ^^'

And what did you pay for all the stuff? about 2000?

I had a friend who was some middle manager at IBM. He sure thought he knew about project management with all his buzz words "high level" language. I had been a project manager for 3-4yrs, also the developer of the project and wrote a lot of it. This high level stuff is useful for developing complex projects but it really comes down to top down deaign vs bottom design.

Q: "How to build plugins from scratch". A: Give it to the wizard... "it's a complete black box mystery to me". lol I feel totally informed now :) Sorry - being cheeky - I actually enjoy watching your videos it just made me laugh :)

As a recording and mixing engineer and former software engineer, I've always thought I should try to develop my own plugins but never took the time to seriously look into it...

As a developer, this is pretty thin on details. Closest I got was "send it to the developer" 😂

I'm assuming you used JUCE?

Can you build a daw

if you can, please add an output trim on the clipper plugin!

Isaw one plugin from analog obsession with great sound but cheap looking UI, so I decided to remake it for myself, at the end I realized I'm good at it, so I think I might make something myself

TL;DR - "I pay someone who knows what they're doing to code it for me". Would definitely like to see more of the coding side tho.

Sold.

Who is your Developer?

frankly, the ugly mockup UI looks more appealing to me haha, but maybe that's cuz i'm a nerd

I tried making this plugin a year ago and realized I can't do code

This was just great! Eventually I'm hoping you can replace all plugins with these simple, quick to use plugins - for us songwriters that just want to put out a radio-ready song, mixed and mastered with just a few BS plugins. All without the need for endless practice as mixers.

Thank you for sharing your company's process for creating new plug-ins. It's awesome to see this level of detail. I'm also wondering if you'd be willing to share some insights as to the legal agreement between your company and the DSP developers/software engineers, especially around the intellectual property rights of the functionality of your plug-ins. Thanks!

I would like to watch a video from the devoloper

nice video, the graphics for the plug-in looks too clean for a filter plugin. hard for me to trust it. try going for a dirtier look next time

Hmm ok you need some to design UIs

Step 2 develop the owl

Dialog on this video could use a d-clicker... lol.. Sorry, it's the engineer in me.

"How to develop plugins" == "Pay somebody else to implement a DSP chain that could be conceived in the time it takes to tie your shoes" sums up this entire video lmao

step 1: have the idea step 1.5: give the assignment to your dev step 2: see what your dev did your having a laugh right?

You skipped the bit where you develop the plugin 😐

Blud this isn't C++

Why is the title "how to develop.." when this is just a breakdown of the design? Not a bad video, but the clickbait title makes it annoying when you're looking for videos about developing vsts

was literally just wondering why i havent seen a lofi plugin

Ui is way too dark

DESCRIPTION: a guitarist spends 10 minutes to explain that "computers are magic" and that he doesnt know how to program ANYTHING. and that his understanding of signal processing is neanderthalic at best.

The title is misleading. You didn’t make a plug-in. You had an idea and sent it to someone to build it for you . I thought you were going to show us how to build it ourselves from beginning to end

There is no "behind the scenes" here at all.....

More like "how to to conceptualize" a plugin. This has 0 'development' in it. Total clickbait

Probably the most lazy way they most likely even used juces prebuilt DSP fx

You guys should probably let everyone know thru your website that you won’t accept them for teaching anything at all if they’re doing any music other than heavy metal and or rock. It will save them time online answering questions and filling things out on your site