Writing Audio Plugins in MATLAB

When To Use

• Creating audio effect or generator plugins (classdef inheriting from audioPlugin or audioPluginSource)
• Troubleshooting validateAudioPlugin or generateAudioPlugin failures
• Converting a MATLAB audio algorithm into a deployable VST/AU plugin
• Integrating deep learning inference into a real-time audio plugin

When NOT To Use

• General MATLAB class authoring unrelated to audio plugins
• Audio file I/O, feature extraction, or analysis (no plugin involved)
• Simulink audio processing blocks
• Writing Audio Toolbox functions that are not plugins (e.g., audioDatastore, audioFeatureExtractor)

Structure

Every audio plugin is a classdef with %#codegen, public tunable properties, a Constant PluginInterface, and methods process + reset.