Pedalboard Pluginary: easier access to VST3/AU plugins

[twardoch]

Hi all,

I’ve made a small Python package called Pedalboard Pluginary (Github: twardoch/pedalboard-pluginary).

It scans all installed VST-3 and AU plugins on your system and produces a simple JSON cache with names, paths and default parameters. Right now, you basically can list them in JSON format after the scanning.

Later, I want to add more functionality, like being able to easily apply plugins in a batch, based on a JSON "job definition".

The library includes a “blacklist” of plugins that caused problems on my machine. You can add more plugins there, and those won’t be scanned or included in the cache.

Also, if a plugin exists in both VST-3 and AU format with the same name, the VST-3 format is preferred. I found that the AU plugins crash more often when Pedalboard is loading them.

What do you think?