Audiobench

Audiobench is a free, open-source modular synthesizer. It can be used to create a variety of sounds by connecting audio processing modules in unlimited ways. It can be downloaded from the main website, and a getting started guide is also available.

Building

First, make sure you have installed all the necessary tools and dependencies:

Windows Dependencies

• git
• python3
• cmake >= 3.15
• Visual Studio 16 2019 and its build tools
• A Rust toolchain compatible with MSVC (this has been the default since 2017.)

MacOS Dependencies

• Homebrew (and the XCode tools that come with it)
• Additional tools: brew install git python3 cmake
• Rust toolchain from rustup.rs

Linux Dependencies

Several tools and libraries are necessary. They can be installed on Debian-based systems with the following command:

sudo apt -y install \
  git python3 make gcc cmake \
  libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev libasound-dev libtinfo-dev \
  extra-cmake-modules libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libclang-dev \
  libjack0 libjack-dev

You must also install the Rust toolchain from rustup.rs

Check that your cmake version is at least 3.15 with cmake --version.

Build Process

The build system is contained in build.py. It can be run by doing ./build.py or python build.py, the first form may not work on Windows. Running it will provide a description of how it can be used. The most common uses are as follows:

• ./build.py installer --release builds a release version of the standalone and plugin versions of Audiobench and packages them into an installer. The results are placed in artifacts/installer/.
• ./build.py run builds and runs a debug version.
• ./build.py benchmark --release runs performance tests and measures how long different parts of the code take to run. The first time you run a build it will take a while to build additional dependencies that are not reliably available in packaged form.