clack-host 0.2.0

A crate offering low-level, safe Rust wrappers to create audio plugin hosts using the CLAP audio plugin API.

This library is made of lightweight, low-level wrappers built on top of clap-sys.

This is part of the Clack project. See the clack-plugin crate if you need to make CLAP plugins, and the clack-extensions crate that contains wrappers for all the standard CLAP extensions (for both plugins and hosts).

Features

• Safe: The #1 goal of this project is to provide the full functionality of the CLAP APIs through fully memory-safe and thread-safe wrappers.

  This allows for making safer, less crash-prone hosts, but also allows to fully trust Rust's type system when making large refactorings or performance optimizations, especially when dealing with CLAP's powerful, multithreaded model.

• Low-level: When safe designs permit it, Clack aims to be as close as possible to the underlying CLAP C API. Whenever it is safe to do so, it does not make any assumptions or interpretations about any operation, and simply passes data through to the user.

  Anything that's possible to do with the CLAP C API, should also be possible to do using only safe Rust and Clack.

• Lightweight: Considering the performance sensitivity of audio plugins and hosts, Clack aims to add as little overhead as possible to any operation (being a low-level library helps!). It reduces runtime checks and memory allocations to an absolute minimum, heavily leveraging zero-cost abstractions or user-provided buffers for example.

• Extensible: Following the intent of the underlying CLAP API, Clack allows third-party users and crates to use, add, or extend extensions, event types, factories, and more. As a matter of fact, all extensions in the clack-extensions crate are implemented using tools all Clack users have access to, and users may add or replace the provided implementations with their own!

• Reasonably defensive: While Clack performs very little extra sanity checks to keep its overhead as low as possible, it will report any erroneous behavior it stumbles upon to user code if possible, or just log it and fall back to the safest option otherwise (e.g. in case of panics originating from user code).

• Fairly ergonomic: Despite Clack being a low-level, fast API, it also tries to provide some additional ergonomic APIs when wrapping the C APIs, as long as they don't have any impact on performance or low-level capability. Examples include using Rust's Option, Result, allowing the use of iterators, implementing standard traits for e.g. I/O, From implementations for buffer types, etc.

Example

This example implements a very simple host, which loads a specific plugin and processes a couple of samples with it.

For a more featured and functional example, check out the CPAL-based host example.

More details and short examples are also available in the clack-host crate documentation.

use clack_host::events::event_types::*;
use clack_host::prelude::*;

// Prepare our (extremely basic) host implementation

struct MyHostShared;

impl<'a> SharedHandler<'a> for MyHostShared {
    /* ... */
    fn request_restart(&self) { /* ... */ }
    fn request_process(&self) { /* ... */ }
    fn request_callback(&self) { /* ... */ }
}

struct MyHost;

impl HostHandlers for MyHost {
    type Shared<'a> = MyHostShared;

    type MainThread<'a> = ();
    type AudioProcessor<'a> = ();
}

pub fn load_and_process() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    // Information about our totally legit host.
    let host_info = HostInfo::new("Legit Studio", "Legit Ltd.", "https://example.com", "4.3.2")?;

    let entry = unsafe { PluginEntry::load("/home/user/.clap/u-he/libdiva.so")? };
    let plugin_factory = entry.get_plugin_factory().unwrap();

    let plugin_descriptor = plugin_factory.plugin_descriptors()
        .find(|d| d.id().unwrap().to_bytes() == b"com.u-he.diva")
        .unwrap();

    let mut plugin_instance = PluginInstance::<MyHost>::new(
        |_| MyHostShared,
        |_| (),
        &entry,
        plugin_descriptor.id().unwrap(),
        &host_info
    )?;

    let audio_configuration = PluginAudioConfiguration {
        sample_rate: 48_000.0,
        min_frames_count: 4,
        max_frames_count: 4,
    };
    let audio_processor = plugin_instance.activate(|_, _| (), audio_configuration)?;

    let note_on_event = NoteOnEvent::new(0, Pckn::new(0u16, 0u16, 12u16, 60u32), 4.2);
    let input_events_buffer = [note_on_event];
    let mut output_events_buffer = EventBuffer::new();

    let mut input_audio_buffers = [[0.0f32; 4]; 2]; // 2 channels (stereo), 1 port
    let mut output_audio_buffers = [[0.0f32; 4]; 2];

    let mut input_ports = AudioPorts::with_capacity(2, 1); // 2 channels (stereo), 1 port
    let mut output_ports = AudioPorts::with_capacity(2, 1);

    // Let's send the audio processor to a dedicated audio processing thread.
    let audio_processor = std::thread::scope(|s| s.spawn(|| {
        let mut audio_processor = audio_processor.start_processing().unwrap();

        let input_events = InputEvents::from_buffer(&input_events_buffer);
        let mut output_events = OutputEvents::from_buffer(&mut output_events_buffer);

        let mut input_audio = input_ports.with_input_buffers([AudioPortBuffer {
            latency: 0,
            channels: AudioPortBufferType::f32_input_only(
                input_audio_buffers.iter_mut().map(|b| InputChannel::constant(b))
            )
        }]);

        let mut output_audio = output_ports.with_output_buffers([AudioPortBuffer {
            latency: 0,
            channels: AudioPortBufferType::f32_output_only(
                output_audio_buffers.iter_mut().map(|b| b.as_mut_slice())
            )
        }]);

        // Finally do the processing itself.
        let status = audio_processor.process(
            &input_audio,
            &mut output_audio,
            &input_events,
            &mut output_events,
            None,
            None
        ).unwrap();

        // Send the audio processor back to be deallocated by the main thread.
        audio_processor.stop_processing()
    }).join().unwrap());

    plugin_instance.deactivate(audio_processor);
    Ok(())
}

License

This crate is distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the Apache license, version 2.0. Contributions are accepted under the same terms.