C++ Programming Tutorial - Build a 3-Band Compressor Audio Plugin (w/ JUCE Framework)

In this tutorial you will learn modern C++ by building a 3-Band Compressor with Spectrum Analyzer using the JUCE Framework.

✏️ This course was developed by Matkat Music. Check him out on YouTube and Instagram:

⭐️ Course Contents ⭐️
⌨️ (0:00:00) Intro

DSP [3hr 31min]
⌨️ (0:02:29) Part 1 Mac & Windows Setup
⌨️ (0:04:10) Mac set up
⌨️ (0:22:40) Windows set up 2
⌨️ (0:45:49) Part 2 Anatomy of an Audio Plugin 4
⌨️ (1:01:05) Part 3 Compressor Theory of Operation
⌨️ (1:12:13) Part 4 Compressor Parameters
⌨️ (1:23:45) Part 5 The First Compressor
⌨️ (1:38:50) Part 6 Creating a CompressorBand
⌨️ (1:44:20) Part 7 DSP Roadmap & Intro to Multiband Filtering
⌨️ (1:53:28) Part 8 Param Namespace
⌨️ (2:04:24) Part 9 Linkwitz-Riley Filters
⌨️ (2:18:13) Part 10 Testing the Filter
⌨️ (2:30:32) Part 11 Filterband Theory
⌨️ (2:35:06) Part 12 3-Band Filtering
⌨️ (2:44:06) Part 13 Inverted Allpass Filters
⌨️ (2:51:27) Part 14 Activating 3 Compressors
⌨️ (3:03:27) Part 15 Implementing Solo/Mute/Bypass
⌨️ (3:13:32) Part 16 Adding I/O Gain & Code Cleanup

GUI [4 hr 45 min]
⌨️ (3:30:43) Part 17 GUI Roadmap
⌨️ (3:36:29) Part 18 Placeholder Components
⌨️ (3:42:43) Part 19 Global Controls
⌨️ (4:03:46) Part 20 Rotary Slider With Labels
⌨️ (4:30:30) Part 21 Compressor Band Controls Pt. 1
⌨️ (4:40:32) Part 22 Compressor Band Controls Pt. 2
⌨️ (4:54:53) Part 23 Compressor Band Controls Pt. 3
⌨️ (5:07:51) Part 24 Band Select Functionality Pt. 1 0
⌨️ (5:25:21) Part 25 Band Select Functionality Pt. 2
⌨️ (5:34:29) Part 26 Separate Files Refactor
⌨️ (5:49:05) Part 27 Band Select Functionality Pt. 3
⌨️ (6:07:13) Part 28 Spectrum Analyzer Pt. 1
⌨️ (6:27:10) Part 29 Spectrum Analyzer Pt. 2
⌨️ (6:50:35) Part 30 Spectrum Analyzer Pt. 3
⌨️ (7:22:35) Part 31 Spectrum Analyzer Pt. 4
⌨️ (7:49:07) Part 32 ControlBar
⌨️ (8:08:33) Part 33 ColorScheme
⌨️ (8:15:28) Part 34 Loose Ends

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[ab_]

You are super smooth in explanation, well scripted, presented and you know what you are doing
I wish we had many JUCE beginner tutorials from you

[albertdadzie]

Men!!! Can’t get enough of this channel.
The best channel by a billion light years.

[kisaragi-hiu]

This is incredibly helpful for getting into the world of audio plugin development. Was hoping for an overview of how a compressor is built though, not just using what JUCE has provided.

[weststarr]

I've been waiting time for something like that. BIG THANKS..for this beautiful one!!!

[thematturlookingfor]

Jesus I can’t wait to go through this build thanks so much for making this

[technoisbeautiful]

YEAAAHHHH :D That feeling when the first compressor is build and it actually does what a compressor does!! <3 Fckn AWESOME

[zacharyrowden]

At 2:30:05 it’s so cool to do these experiments as well. I appreciate the extra time spent on these ‘proofs’

[georgeabraham]

Yet again.. thanx Doood, ..!!! following along does brush up on rusty refactoring logic and some less used concepts in Cpp...

[pmishraofficial]

Notes for self:

1:28:20 - Connecting apvts parameters to bring them in action
1:31:57 - Member function in APVTS that connects pointers to parameters

[electronaota]

So cool! Thank you for really nice tutorial!!

[wsteand]

amazing video, you are a great teacher matkat!

[digigno]

Just Wow! It's absolutely brilliant 👏 😀 👌

[sophiacristina]

A guy with a mohawk and a piano on the background teaching me c++ seems to be fitting pretty well... :)

[c.yworld]

I was born in the Korean countryside, so there is a lack of learning, but there are so many geniuses in the world..

[zackzick]

I think a lot of frameworks are too mich a Plattform of their own. I would love to See a c/cpp Video on how to create a window with gtk (or gtkmm)

[bogelmanDDD]

Hello, sign up for a tutorial on Juice on how to create a simple spring reverb, thank you!

[ryanmcilhenny]

When trying to build the AudioFilePlayer is VS Code 2022 for the first time I am getting error C1083 "No such file or directory". I have tried retargeting the project to many different Window DSK versions but nothing is working. Can anyone help?

[ItsABOUTflamTIME]

Just getting started with this video. I want to note that at 55:00, the REAL reason audio is split into tiny buffers is time (i.e. latency). If the software is processing and sending audio in 1 second chunks, then audio playback will be delayed 1 second behind real time.

[abdopower]

but what is previous knowledge before go to the this amazing course

[JS-pfed]

Hi Matkat, do I need a DSP or some audio background for this tutorial? Thank you!