AAX SDK Manual

Welcome to AAX

The basics

• For a general overview of AAX and a walk-through of the DemoGain example plug-in, see Getting Started with AAX
• If you are new to Pro Tools then you may also want to read through the first few sections of the Pro Tools Guide
• The sample plug-ins provide examples of both basic and advanced AAX features
• If you want to find out more about the basic structure of AAX plug-ins, see Core AAX Interface
• To learn more about audio processing in AAX, see Real-time algorithm callback
• To learn about adding parameters and controls to your plug-in, see Data model interface
• For more information about plug-in configuration and initial set-up, see Description callback

More topics

• To see the interface that an AAX plug-in's host-based modules use to interact with the host, see AAX_IController
• To find out more about how different modules in an AAX plug-in communicate with one another, see AAX communication protocols
• For information about creating advanced non-real-time AAX plug-ins, see Offline processing interface
• For more information about implementing custom parameter and control behavior, see Taper delegates and Display delegates
• To find out how to create and optimize an AAX plug-in for Avid's HDX platform, see the TI Guide
• You can find signal processing utility classes and functions available for optimizing on Native and DSP in the /TI/SignalProcessing folder

Supplemental information

• Example Plug-Ins
• Change Log
• Host Support
• Known Issues

SDK Folder hierarchy

Documentation

SDK documentation

ExamplePlugIns

Example plug-in projects More information

Extensions

Demonstrations of how to extend the AAX SDK, for example by incorporating third-party GUI frameworks into AAX plug-ins. More information

Interfaces

Interface headers and other resources required for use of the AAX SDK library

Libs

Compiled versions of the AAX SDK library. Debug and Release libraries are included, in 32- and 64-bit (Windows) or universal (Mac) versions

TI

Various resources for use with TI's Code Composer Studio IDE and Avid's TI testing toolset

Utilities

Common SDK utilities and resources

Contacting Avid

If you have any questions, we encourage you to post them to the AAX developers' forum:

https://developer.digidesign.com/index.php?L1=5&L2=13&L3=56&LC=/viewforum.php?f=89

You can also contact the AAX development team directly at devse.nosp@m.rvic.nosp@m.es@av.nosp@m.id.c.nosp@m.om. Any AAX questions sent to this alias will be promptly addressed by the most appropriate contact here at Avid.

Documents
	Getting Started with AAX
	A brief introduction to AAX.
	Core AAX Interface
	Main classes, callbacks, and format specification details for a standard AAX plug-in.
	Additional AAX features
	How to use additional features and functionality supported by AAX.
	AAX Library features
	AAX Library core support for the AAX interface.
	Additional Topics
	Additional information about the AAX design.
	AAX Host Guides
	Documentation for specific AAX host environments.
	Supplemental Information
	Supplemental documents beyond the scope of the AAX specification.

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