Use everywhere
Achieve maximum reuse by relying on thouroughly-optimized plain C code with no external dependencies.
Use anytime
Apply the GPL v3 license for your F/OSS projects or get an unlimited license for your proprietary products.
Brickworks is a music DSP toolkit that supplies you with the fundamental building blocks for creating and enhancing audio engines on any platform.
It is the result of years of research, development, refinements, usage, and adaptation to different successful commercial projects. Indeed, our founder helps some of the top companies in the industry create award-winning products and is an active member of the global scientific community (check his personal website).
Brickworks distills much of such hard-earned experience into a reliable library of rock-solid and easy-to-use sound synthesis and effect algorithms.
Speed up development
Brickworks is designed first and foremost to speed up the most time-consuming parts of audio programming in order to save you and us time and money.
It essentially consists of a collection of fundamental sound synthesis and effect algorithms, namely:
Dynamics
Filters
- state variable filter
- 1st-order lowpass, highpass, allpass, low shelf, high shelf, and multimode filters
- 2nd-order lowpass, bandpass, highpass, allpass, low shelf, high shelf, peak, notch, and multimode filters
- wah
- cab simulator
Degradation
Oscillators
- waveshapers with antialiasing (saw, pulse, triangle, sine)
- phase generator
Event processing
Those modules typically comprise the cornerstone of a music DSP engine. Hence, programming audio engines will mostly reduce to defining modules, interconnections, and parameter mappings, leading to a workflow that resembles visual programming languages and modular synthesizers.
Furthremore, Brickworks is designed to maximize
- ease of use: its API is simple, minimal, and boringly consistent, so that there is very little to learn and you can get productive in no time; and
- ease of integation: it sticks religiously to KISS and non-opinionated design principles, so that it allows for interoperability and never gets in your way.
Use everywhere
Brickworks is completely platform-agnostic and runs unmodified on all today's platforms, ranging from cheap MCUs to web pages, including mobile and desktop.
We regularly test it on:
Daisy Seed
(STM32, ARM Cortex M7)
Android and iOS
Windows, macOS, and Linux
(x64 and Apple Silicon)
WebAssembly
(via Clang, w/o Emscripten)
It is entirely written in plain C99, has no external dependencies, and it is possible to easily make it work even without the C standard library.
Optional C++ wrappers are also provided for your convenience.
Use anytime
Whether you want to use Brickworks for your free software/open source projects or to develop proprietary products, we've got you covered.
Open source license
Free
- Any number of developers
- No time limits
- No lock-in
- Only for GPLv3-compatible projects
- No confidentiality
- You must share your changes
Proprietary license
3,000 €
Documentation
API documentation
Here you can access the full API documentation.
Examples
You can find a number of examples and the instructions to build and run them in the examples folder in the official code repository.
They work and have been tested on all supported platforms.
Community
Support
Our primary mission is assisting customers in creating and improving their own products.
We would be more than happy to help you, whether it is about a simple doubt clarification all the way up to designing and implementing new custom audio engines from scratch.
Legal
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