Jamba

What is Jamba?

Jamba is a set of helpers (classes, concepts, build files, etc…) built on top of the VST SDK to provide a lightweight framework to build a VST3 plugin. Jamba has been designed to help in building VST3 plugin, not to replace it: you are still writing a VST3 plugin, not a Jamba plugin.

Jamba is a free and open source project hosted on github. Jamba latest release is v7.1.4.

Features

Bootstrap

  • generate a fully buildable, testable, editable and deployable plugin (see Quick Starting Guide)
  • automatically download dependencies

Build & Deploy

  • simple script to build, test, validate, edit and install the plugin from the command line (see jamba.sh (.bat))
  • build a self contained plugin that depends on the VST3 SDK
  • optionally wraps the VST3 plugin into an Audio Unit plugin (macOS)
  • build a universal plugin for Apple Silicon support (macOS)
  • easily adds resources (images) in a cross platform way
  • easily write unit tests for your project
  • build on macOS and Windows 10
  • package your project as an archive (zip file) for production release

C++ classes & concepts

  • pick and choose which feature is useful to you (lots of options to override/change the default behavior)
  • define your VST parameters in one location (inherit from Parameters) and use both in real time processing (RT) and GUI code
  • define typed VST parameters (ex: a boolean (bool) parameter, a gain (Gain) parameter, etc…)
  • use typed VST parameters directly in RT processing code as well as GUI code
  • use Jamba parameters for handling non VST parameters (ex: a label/text string cannot be represented by a VST parameters). Jamba parameters can be automatically saved/restored part of the state
  • use Jamba parameters to easily exchange messages between RT and GUI (both directions) in a thread safe fashion
  • easily create custom views with their creators (so that they appear in the GUI editor)
  • easily use multiple parameters in a custom view (ex: a custom display which displays a gain value (parameter 1) in a color depending on parameter 2)
  • store/read state in a thread safe fashion (includes version)
  • Jamba Views

Getting Started

Check the Quickstart section to getting started.