ales-tsurko / kotoist

A VST plugin for live coding and algorithmic composition

Kotoist

VST plugin for live coding using Koto programming language.

Build

Use ./build.sh win on Windows or ./build.sh mac on macOS.

If you wish to build manually, you should build GUI first:

cd gui
yarn
yarn build

Then you can build the plugin:

cd ..
cargo build

On OS X VST plugins are packaged inside of loadable bundles. To package your VST as a loadable bundle you may use the osx_vst_bundler.sh script this library provides.

Example:

./osx_vst_bundler.sh Plugin target/release/plugin.dylib
Creates a Plugin.vst bundle

ref

REAPER Specific

To make the plugin work as expected, you should right-click on the plugin in the FX Rack and choose "Send all keyboard input to plugin".

FL Studio Specific

The debug build initialize a log file on your desktop. At least on macOS this crashes FL Studio on start. To prevent it, comment out the log initialization.

Deployment

Just tag a new version and push it to remote.

git tag {version}
git push origin {version}

Docs

You need doctave and gh-pages node package.

To install gh-pages (it's important to use 3.0.0 version):

npm install -g [email protected]

Building and deploying the docs:

doctave build --release
gh-pages -d site