faustdoctor

NOTE: This is a fork of faustpp, which is not endorsed by upstream (since its maintainer is MIA). It is also not backward compatible with the upstream version, since it features breaking changes to the architecture templates, the template context and the command line interface.

A post-processor for FAUST giving more flexibility at source generation.

This is a source transformation tool based on the FAUST compiler.

It permits to arrange the way how faust source is generated with greater flexibility.

Using a template language known as Jinja2, it is allowed to manipulate metadata with iteration and conditional constructs, to easily generate custom code tailored for the job. Custom metadata can be handled by the template mechanism.

Usage

For detailed information, refer to the documentation.

An example is provided in the architectures directory. It is usable and illustrates many features.

The example is able to create a custom processor class. It has these abilities:

• Can generate a separate (C/C++) header and implementation file.
• Provides direct introspection of the characteristics of the controls.
• Can parse standard and custom UI metadata, for example:
  • [symbol:]
  • [trigger]
  • [boolean]
  • [integer]
• Provides named getters and setters for the controls.
• Provides a simplified signature for the processing routine.

The example can be used to generate any file. Pass options to the Faust compiler using -X. In this particular example, you should pass a definition of Identifier in order to name the result class, which is done with the option -D.

faustdr -X-vec -DIdentifier=MyEffect -a generic.cpp effect.dsp > effect.cpp
faustdr -X-vec -DIdentifier=MyEffect -a generic.hpp effect.dsp > effect.hpp

Installation

Assuming you have Python installed (>= 3.9) and pipx installed, run this command:

pipx install faustdoctor

Authors

This software is based on faustpp, which was created by Jean Pierre Cimalando. The project was forked, renamed to faustdoctor, updated, improved and extended by Christopher Arndt, who now maintains this version.

License

This software is released under the Boost Software License 1.0. Please see the LICENSE.md file for details.

Release notes

See the CHANGELOG.md file.