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.)
Run the command git clone "https://gitlab.com/Code_Cube/llvm-win.git" "C:\LLVM to download necessary LLVM tools (the official builds lack some of the tooling necessary to compile Audiobench.)
Set the environment variable LLVM_SYS_70_PREFIX to C:\LLVM

MacOS Dependencies

git
python3
cmake >= 3.15
Xcode toolchain
Rust toolchain
llvm@7 from Homebrew.
Set the environment variable LLVM_SYS_70_PREFIX to /usr/local/Cellar/llvm@7/7.1.0_2

Linux Dependencies

git
python3
make
gcc toolchain
cmake >= 3.15
Rust toolchain
Required development libraries can be installed on Debian-based systems with the command sudo apt -y install llvm-7 libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev libasound-dev extra-cmake-modules libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev

Build Process

Before building for the first time, run git submodule init; git submodule sync to pull code for all submodules. The build system is contained in build.py. It can be run by doing ./build.py or python3 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 juce_frontend --release builds a release version of the standalone and plugin versions of Audiobench. The results are placed in artifacts/bin/.
./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.