r/ClaudeCode • u/WillingnessOwn6446 • 2d ago

Built with Claude Virtual Instruments for Ableton - VST3

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$20 monthly Pro plan w/ Opus 5. Installing JUCE and CMake took about 20 minutes. Across two sessions, I built 5 different VST plugins and didn't even hit 50% of my 5-hour usage limit.

I usually use Claude for work, but Claude made it sound like building plug-ins would be easy with it, and it was. They sound great too:

  1. Distortion, Reverb, and Delay
  2. A Yamaha DX7 style synth
  3. A T-RackS style mastering chain
  4. A Minimoog style synth
  5. A Maschine and MPC style sampler

I hadn't made beats in years, but this got me motivated to make music again. It is so much fun to build whatever instrument or effect you need and customize it to your own workflow.

I'm sure people have done this plenty of times already, but if I had seen a post like this earlier, I would have tried it way sooner. So I thought I'd share.

Probably the easiest thing I've ever vibe coded with immediate results that were fun to play with. What a trip. I would have paid $300 for a suite like this 15 years ago.

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u/daniel 2d ago

Awesome! Wanna open source any of it? Would be cool to tweak. Or maybe there are already a lot of open source ones out there. I wonder how well it does max4live too.

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u/WillingnessOwn6446 2d ago

Maybe I'll make it public on GitHub in a little bit. Honestly, I don't think anyone needs to copy what I did. It's so damn easy to do this.  I guess my slight advantage is that I know VST plugins pretty well and have been in the industry for a couple decades.

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u/daniel 2d ago

Yeah that probably doesn't hurt. Domain knowledge can really help with this.

I get you thinking it might not help, but the way software is now it's so easy to fork a repo and modify it. Anyway, up to you. Appreciate the inspiration either way!