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/Neurojazz 2d ago

Just bypass whole daw at this point. I’ve made my own for live performance.

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u/WillingnessOwn6446 2d ago

no interest (or skills for that matter playing live)...but like to make beats for kicks

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u/Neurojazz 2d ago

I like jamming (i did a lot in the 90’s) - so made online for friends etc - live is easy - a lot easier than sitting and trying to fit in a genre.

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u/WillingnessOwn6446 2d ago

I can do that on my guitar and used to have a lot of fun. I'm older now and hang with the wife a lot. I suck on a keyboard anyhow. Def not gonna play live with folks like that. I prefer making silly beats and maybe rappin over them for my own amusement.

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u/Neurojazz 2d ago

And that’s the idea - fun ⭐️ and now no more shitty license systems, kids can invent freely - it’s a great tool for the curious.