Introduction

The Manul Audio SDK is a Gorilla Engine–style authoring toolkit for building sample-based instrument and effect plugins — shipped as VST3, AU, and AAX.

It has two halves:

• Manul Engine — the native Rust plugin runtime that loads inside a DAW.
• Manul IDE — a Tauri-based authoring application for designing instruments, effects, and DSP chains without hand-writing plugin boilerplate.

This site documents both, plus the file formats, DSP module system, and the Manul Audio Product Manager app that end users install products through.

Work in progress

This documentation site is scaffolding — most sections below are placeholders to be filled in as the SDK's feature set stabilizes.

Where to start

• Editor Overview — the authoring IDE
• Plugin Engine — the runtime that ships inside VST3/AU/AAX builds
• DSP Modules — building and extending effect chains