PluginUI 0.1.0-beta.3

Third pre-release: PluginUI.NPlug is now on NuGet, built on the official NPlug 0.6.1 packages. NPlug 0.6.1 and NPlug.Proxy 2.0.2 ship the last fix PluginUI needed (ARM64 plug-ins in Contents\arm64-win). PluginUI therefore uses NPlug from NuGet instead of its sources, and the VST3 adapter can be published as a package. The toolkit, the editor elements and the demo are unchanged.

Everything below is built and checked by the release workflow: unit tests, and the Steinberg VST3 validator 47/47 on x86-64-v3, on x86-64-v2, and on the universal bundle on x64 and on Windows ARM64. It has not been tried yet in a real DAW. Feedback is welcome in the issues.

A plug-in in one package reference

<PropertyGroup>
  <TargetFramework>net10.0</TargetFramework>
  <OutputType>Library</OutputType>
  <RuntimeIdentifier>win-x64</RuntimeIdentifier> <!-- or win-arm64 -->
  <CopyLocalLockFileAssemblies>true</CopyLocalLockFileAssemblies>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
  <PackageReference Include="PluginUI.NPlug" Version="0.1.0-beta.3" />
</ItemGroup>

PluginUI.NPlug brings PluginUI and NPlug, along with NPlug's build files: debug proxy, factory export and the NativeAOT .vst3 on dotnet publish -c Release.

Downloads

File	Content
PluginUI.DemoSynth-0.1.0-beta.3-vst3-universal.zip	The demo instrument as one VST3 bundle for x64 and ARM64 (start here). Copy PluginUI.DemoSynth.vst3 to C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3, then rescan the plug-ins
…-vst3-x64-v3.zip, …-vst3-x64-v2.zip, …-vst3-arm64.zip	One build per bundle, without the loader
PluginUI.Gallery-0.1.0-beta.3-win-x64.zip, …-win-arm64.zip	Every element of the toolkit (NativeAOT, no runtime needed)
PluginUIEditor-0.1.0-beta.3-win-x64.zip, …-win-arm64.zip	The visual designer (needs the .NET 10 Desktop Runtime)
*.nupkg, SHA256SUMS.txt	NuGet packages (PluginUI, PluginUI.Design, PluginUI.NPlug) and checksums

Requirements: Windows 10 1809 or later, x64 or ARM64. Documentation: https://asm8086.github.io/PluginUI/

What's changed

• Added: the PluginUI.NPlug NuGet package.
• Changed: NPlug comes from NuGet (NPlug 0.6.1, NPlug.Validator for the tests). Projects generated by PluginUIEditor reference only PluginUI.NPlug.
• Removed: the external/NPlug git submodule, the NPlugRoot property, ScaffoldOptions.NPlugRoot and the editor's NPlug src folder option.

Full changelog: v0.1.0-beta.2...v0.1.0-beta.3

MIT License. Third-party notices are included in every package.

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PluginUI 0.1.0-beta.2

Second pre-release, now built on the official NPlug 0.6.0. All the NPlug fixes PluginUI needed have been merged into xoofx/NPlug and released in 0.6.0, so PluginUI no longer uses a fork. The toolkit, editor and demo are unchanged since beta.1.

As before, everything below is built and checked by the release workflow: unit tests, and the Steinberg VST3 validator 47/47 on x86-64-v3, on x86-64-v2, and on the universal bundle on x64 and on Windows ARM64. It has not been tried yet in a real DAW. Feedback is welcome in the issues.

Downloads

File	Content
PluginUI.DemoSynth-0.1.0-beta.2-vst3-universal.zip	The demo instrument as one VST3 bundle for x64 and ARM64 (start here). Copy PluginUI.DemoSynth.vst3 to C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3, then rescan the plug-ins
…-vst3-x64-v3.zip, …-vst3-x64-v2.zip, …-vst3-arm64.zip	One build per bundle, without the loader
PluginUI.Gallery-0.1.0-beta.2-win-x64.zip, …-win-arm64.zip	Every element of the toolkit (NativeAOT, no runtime needed)
PluginUIEditor-0.1.0-beta.2-win-x64.zip, …-win-arm64.zip	The visual designer (needs the .NET 10 Desktop Runtime)
*.nupkg, SHA256SUMS.txt	NuGet packages and checksums

NuGet: dotnet add package PluginUI --prerelease, plus PluginUI.Design for design files.

The NPlug adapter, PluginUI.NPlug, is still used from source, together with the NPlug 0.6.0 sources (the external/NPlug git submodule). The reason is that the NPlug.Proxy 2.0.1 package on NuGet still writes ARM64 plug-ins to Contents\arm_64-win.

Requirements: Windows 10 1809 or later, x64 or ARM64. Documentation: https://asm8086.github.io/PluginUI/

What's changed

• NPlug: the external/NPlug submodule now points to the official NPlug release 0.6.0. When the submodule is missing, the build and the generated projects look for a sibling ..\NPlug clone.
• Documentation and third-party notices updated accordingly.

Full changelog: v0.1.0-beta.1...v0.1.0-beta.2

MIT License. Third-party notices are included in every package.

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PluginUI 0.1.0-beta.1

First public pre-release. Everything below is built and checked by the release workflow (unit tests, Steinberg VST3 validator 47/47 on x86-64-v3, x86-64-v2, the universal bundle on x64 and on Windows ARM64), but it has not been tried yet in a real DAW. Feedback is welcome in the issues.

Downloads

File	Content
PluginUI.DemoSynth-0.1.0-beta.1-vst3-universal.zip	The demo instrument, one VST3 bundle for x64 and ARM64 (start here). Copy PluginUI.DemoSynth.vst3 to C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3 and rescan the plug-ins
…-vst3-x64-v3.zip, …-vst3-x64-v2.zip, …-vst3-arm64.zip	One build per bundle, without loader
PluginUI.Gallery-0.1.0-beta.1-win-x64.zip, …-win-arm64.zip	Every element of the toolkit (NativeAOT, no runtime needed)
PluginUIEditor-0.1.0-beta.1-win-x64.zip, …-win-arm64.zip	The visual designer (needs the .NET 10 Desktop Runtime)
*.nupkg, SHA256SUMS.txt	NuGet packages and checksums

NuGet: dotnet add package PluginUI --prerelease (and PluginUI.Design for design files). The NPlug adapter, PluginUI.NPlug, is used from the sources together with the patched NPlug (git submodule).

Requirements: Windows 10 1809 or later, x64 or ARM64. Documentation: https://asm8086.github.io/PluginUI/

What's in it

First public version.

Added

• PluginUI: Win32 + Direct2D / DirectWrite toolkit for plug-in editors, NativeAOT-compatible.
  • Hosting: UIHost (child window, DPI, sizing modes, input routing, popups, tooltips, animation timer, Post),
    StandaloneWindow.
  • About eighty elements: rotary and linear controls, buttons and selectors, menus, text and value entry, meters and
    analyzers (level, loudness EBU R128, goniometer, correlation, spectrum, spectrogram, oscilloscope, waveform),
    instrument elements (keyboard, wheels, MSEG, step and gate sequencers, drag-and-drop modulation, A/B comparison,
    MIDI learn), containers (canvas, stack, grid, dock, wrap, tabs, split view, scroll viewer, group box, list box,
    data table).
  • Themes (dark, light, accent), vector styles, skins (film strip, state images, SVG, nine-slice, delegate).
  • Live layout editing (Ctrl+Shift+E) with C# code copy.
  • PluginUI.Dsp: lock-free audio → UI transfer, FFT, meter ballistics, biquad design, WAV reading, SIMD kernels.
  • English and French interface texts, culture-independent number formatting.
• PluginUI.NPlug: VST3 editor view for NPlug (PluginEditorView), controller and processor base classes with
  parameter edit bridge, notes from the editor, shared state and MIDI learn.
• PluginUI.Design: .pluginui design files, AOT-safe run-time loader, C# code generation, live design bridge,
  project scaffolding.
• PluginUIEditor: WinForms visual designer (toolbox, property grid, parameters, preview, undo/redo, code
  generation, new projects, exports, extensions), English and French.
• Samples: PluginUI.Gallery (every element, --lang fr, PNG snapshots) and PluginUI.DemoSynth (16-voice VST3
  instrument with side-chain input).
• Documentation in English and French, DocFX site with API reference.
• Release packages for x64 (x86-64-v3 and x86-64-v2) and ARM64, with a VST3 bundle that picks the right x64 build
  for the processor.

MIT License. Third-party notices are included in every package.

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