Programming VST effects

[the_man]

I'm not much of a recording engineer, but I consider myself a decent enough programmer. I thought it might be fun to try to program my own flangers, reverbs, etc, etc. Does anybody know of any resources that might help me get started?

I would need to know what kinds of interfaces VST plugins have (like what they would look like to a separate program) and how the various effects work (like how does a flanger make that wooshy noise).

Thanks.

 

[Doug H]

Not the easiest information to come by on the web, there are some easy to find sites to give you a trivial heads up on the whole audio concept, but more detailed stuff may be hard to find depending on what you want to build. I suggest finding a good book if you can.

Stienburg has an SDK for VST, but there's some licence agreement you are supposed to agree to first. IMO it's BS. Keep it proprietary or release the interface details freely. Lot's of people are writing them tho, so it might not be too bad if you can make sense of that sort of mumbo jumbo.