VAMP plugins as WAMs
About a year ago I explored how to get VAMP plugins online. As a proof of concept I ported Dan Stowell’s amplitude follower VAMP plugin as a WAM. A demo is available at http://webaudiomodules.org/demos/vamp/vamphost.html This WAM is implemented as a PNaCl module, so it requires Chrome (canary is not necessary). After porting and thinking a bit further, I concluded that desktop browser is actually an excellent platform for hosting VAMPs. Here’s a quick and incomplete list of the benefits. plugin implementation : realtime/offline audio graphs and…