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surge-synthesizer / conduit

The Surge Synth Team Conduit Plugin Suite
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The Conduit Plugins

Conduit is a project with four goals

  1. Be a clear example of "clap first" development. It is a clap and everything - formats, standalones, and more - follows. As such it acts as a fulsome test bed for the clap wrapper project.
  2. Be an example and test bed for our library factoring ahead of XT2 and SCXT. The plugins refer well factored reusable libraries for their work
  3. Be a set of awesome small plugins where the activation cost for a new plugin is "low"
  4. work out the mechanics of using juce as a gui but not as a plug-in or dsp layer

Status

Conduit is still experimental. Things are getting better but lots still doesn't work, and a few things only work on Mac.

You can download the nightly from here, but your best bet is:

git clone https://github.com/surge-synthesizer/conduit
cd conduit
git submodule update --init --recursive
cmake -Bbuild -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build build --target conduit_all

results in a Conduit.clap and Conduit.vst3 in build/conduit_products.

The best way to interact with this project is to reac us via:

  1. The #conduit-dev channel on surge discord
  2. The #wrappers channel on clap discord or
  3. Github Issues here

An Important Note about Licensing

The source code in the 'src' directory and associated CMake files in the root and source directories are licensed under the MIT License, as described in LICENSE.md.

However, this project serves multiple purposes, including being an example of clap-first development and a test-bed and highlight for the surge synth team libraries. The majority of those libraries, as well as several of the SDK dependencies (VST3 and JUCE) are GPL3 code. As a result the combined work of building this project, if distributed, would trigger the GPL3 license terms.

This is a bit odd, right? If you have GPL3 dependencies and are MIT using the code in an MIT context is difficult. You could copy the code but you would have to strip the dependencies. But that's exactly the goal here. Since one of the purposes of this project is to highlight CLAP-first development, we want the way we structure our projects, our builds, and our plugin to be something that developers can copy and use no matter what their chosen software license.

So copy this project, strip out our dependencies, inject your own DSP and UI, but keep the cmake and layout shenanigans, borrow our tricks, and that's totally fine. You get no GPL3 contagion. But dont strip out the GPL3 dependencies and you will trigger the GPL3 clauses.

If you don't understand this, basically it means "feel free to read the code in src/ and cmake/ and copy the ideas, but if you find you have to use the libraries in libs/ be careful".