Alexandre Bique of Bitwig and Urs Heckmann of u-he join the stage to present updates on CLAP (CLever Audio Plugin API). A lot has happened since CLAP was presented at ADC 23. Alexandre and Urs will briefly focus on industry adoption and give an overview of latest extensions, roadmap and goals. Then they’ll be digging deeper by showing example implementations of some of CLAPs core features, such as Polyphonic Parameter Modulation and Voice Info.
Much has happened in the past few months. CLAP is now a full citizen for ARA, VST3 wrapper already wraps it (so CLAP-ARA is wrapped to VST3-ARA). The number of developers supporting CLAP has nearly doubled: We’re thrilled that FL Studio has joined the CLAP enabled DAWs, Fabfilter released their plug-ins for CLAP, and Airwindows published their 300+ plug-ins in a single consolidated CLAP binary, to name just a few.
Consolidation CLAP received a lot of attention to the details. We improved the documentation, some remaining ambiguities have been clarified. Together with the documentation improvements, the clap-helpers now perform more checks and give a better sense of validation, correctness and security. The overall ecosystem did mature. We stabilized a bunch of extensions, see ChangeLog.md Reworked audio port configuration We’ve improved the audio port configuration process, so it is easier to implement complex surround handshake.
A summary of CLAP's first half year after reaching version 1.0 - read all about CLAP's rapid adoption, about new tools for CLAP developers, and about the progress CLAP has made in just 6 months.