What

This VST/CLAP plugin intercepts MIDI events and sends them over the network using the OSC protocol.

While fully functional, it is meant to be used as a template :

• not all MIDI events are intercepted
• OSC server address is hardcoded
• binaries are not published, see How to use in a DAW

Why

Some DAWs (Digital Audio Workstation) do not have features to enable intercepting MIDI events and broadcasting them using a network protocol.

For these DAWs, a VST or a CLAP plugin must be developed.

Historically, this is done using C/C++.

Thanks to Rust packages nih-plug, vst3-sys and clap-sys, developing VST and CLAP plugins can be conveniently done using Rust.

How to use in a DAW

This plugin is not published in binary form and needs to be compiled using the command

cargo run bundle rust-vst-midi2osc --release

Which outputs paths to the plugins :

Created a CLAP bundle at 'target/bundled/rust-vst-midi2osc.clap'
Created a VST3 bundle at 'target/bundled/rust-vst-midi2osc.vst3'