Hi there

I am having serious problems trying to figure out how to turn my very simple pd reverb into a .vst plugin.
I tried .au, and actually got somewhere with it, but unfortunately, libpd is a little beyond my comprehension at this stage.

So i decided to do a little thinking about how to overcome the issues i was having. I remembered Max and did a little research. It seems reasonably """easy""" to transfer a pd patch into max. Is this a correct assumption to make? I understand there are often issues with the conversion process when including externals, however, I have the great advantage of having written my pd patch completely vanilla.

HOWEVER, as with every single thing i have attempted in this project, it's not going to be entirely simple since Max MSP lost it's .vst and .au creating ability after version 5 I believe.
The key things i am looking into now are 'Pluggo'. Also removed from version 5 so i need to get a hold of version 4 somewhere..

My question is - am I chasing a pipe dream or am I going to need to get stuck into libpd and Xcode? Is it really possible to create a .vst OR .au plug in this easily?! I'm somewhat skeptical.

Any advice is much appreciated. I will also be doing my own research into this, but perhaps theres someone... anyone out there can offer a bit of advice!

Thank you.

Reverb patch for reference

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/PureVerb_Patchv1.0.3.pd

i think if you're trying to turn a pd patch into a vst or au plugin, you're blazing new ground. I've never seen it done yet.

there is/was a pd-vst plugin: http://puredata.info/downloads/pdvst
i think the pd version used there is rather outdated, an it was quite difficult to
use/install and only worked as a vst instrument or effect, i don't remember which.

with libpd though, it should be quite easy to make a pd-vst plugin, and
i wonder why this (apparently) has not happened yet.

update: i was wrong here. it is not (yet) easy to make a vst plugin with libpd, since it can not use multiple instances. it might be possible to make a plugin as a kind of bridge, communicating with an instance of pd running seperately, but that is
probably far from 'easy'...