32-bit CLAP plugins?

[JBetz]

I'm trying to load the clap-saw-demo plugin into Dolphin Smalltalk and getting "X is not a valid Win32 application error". Dolphin is 32-bit so I'm assuming that the plugin is 64-bit since it doesn't throw that error when loading 32-bit VSTs.

Are there any CLAP plugins that can be built to run 32-bit? Or is 64-bit the de-facto standard?

[baconpaul]

I don't know if anyone has built any 32 bit claps. There's a small chance I forgot to turn them off on the surge xt builds though so I would start with the 32 bit surge xt 1.1. installer.

clap-saw-demo should compile 32 bit if you add a "-A Win32" to the cmake, perhaps, but i've certainly never tested it.

But to answer your question: I don't think anyone is going to support 32 bit clap on windows with any vigor no. So if you use it in this fashion my guess is your available synths will be open source ones you build yourself more than the commercial lines. While it is certainly not a requirement that you are 64 bit, I think everyone just kinda is.

[baconpaul]

Yeah I just checked.

https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/downloads

the surge 32 bit installer has a clap included which is built by our pipelines

I don't think anyone anywhere in the world has ever run it though, since as far as I know, until your question here, there haven't been any 32 bit windows hosts.

If it works. though, that would be cool!

[sagantech]

I know but "instrument" is not a category I recognize and may be an "instrument model". "Synthesizer", which I notice is already defined as CLAP_PLUGIN_FEATURE_SYNTHESIZER appears to be missing from the features array in the CLAP version.

[sagantech]

I guess CLAP calls it a "sub-category".

[baconpaul]

Yeah I will add it for sure when I fix the vel0 bug. Just letting you know that there may be quite a few plugins which just say instrument out there

[sagantech]

First, this is a minor issue. The user can easily set the category herself. Second, the documentation, in features.h, for instrument says:

// Add this feature if your plugin can process note events and then produce audio

This could easily be an effect of some kind as well since it says nothing about audio in.

[baconpaul]

Yup! Surge is an instrument and an effect both for instance since the synth advertises a side chain in. But labeling it an effect would be obnoxious albeit correct. Genres and tags are always difficult though

but definitely surge is a shynthesizer and it’s obviousky an omission that it doesn’t say that :)