Carla overview

Carla is a fully-featured audio plugin host, with support for many audio drivers and plugin formats. It's open source and licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.

Features

LADSPA, DSSI, LV2 and VST2, VST3 and AU plugin formats
SF2/3 and SFZ sound banks
Internal audio and midi file player
Automation of plugin parameters via MIDI CC
Remote control over OSC
Rack and Patchbay processing modes, plus Single and Multi-Client if using JACK
Native audio drivers (ALSA, DirectSound, CoreAudio, etc) and JACK

In experimental phase / work in progress:

Export any Carla loadable plugin or sound bank as an LV2 plugin
Plugin bridge support (such as running 32bit plugins on a 64bit Carla, or Windows plugins on Linux)
Run JACK applications as audio plugins
Transport controls, sync with JACK Transport or Ableton Link

Carla is also available as an LV2 plugin and VST2 plugin.

Note: While the software is classified as free, it is actually donationware. Please consider making a donation to help support development.

What’s new in version 2.4.3

Updated on Apr 17 2022

Fix build for Alpine Linux and BSD
Fix integration with internal Qt toolbar visibility state
Fix plugin search (regression from 2.4.2)
Fix several Windows UTF-16 issues
Add -fno-gnu-unique to default build flags
Implement VERBOSE make flag
Make build compatible with LTO, now enabled on official macOS/Windows binaries
Replace CARLA_EXPORT macro with separate API / PLUGIN export options
Set new X-NSM-Exec desktop file property

Information

License

Free

Size

327.3 MB

Developer’s website

https://kx.studio/Applications:Carla

Downloads

205

App requirements

Intel 64
Apple Silicon
Mac OS X 10.7.0 or later

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Tachy0n

Mar 5 2022

2.4.2

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Mar 5 2022

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Version: 2.4.2

I want to like this, but I can’t use it because I have a lot of plugins and Carla just chokes on this and crashes. I suppose I should message support because they probably don’t hang out here on MU.