Getting Started with JUCE

A good introduction to a much used utility in the digital audio world. Its ubiquity is on the rise, so best to get to know it now.

JUCE is an amazing library but if you're looking for a tutorial on how to write a soft synth or VST, you're in the wrong place. This book is a capable intro to JUCE as a cross platform UI library but has absolutely nothing on generating sound, writing a soft synth, handling MIDI, or anything else at the systems level for creating your own music software.

Definitely helpful as a simple intro for JUCE, but there's no advantage to reading this book over reading the tutorials and API docs at the JUCE website. Perhaps if it offered more of a leg up on the official documentation or offered example projects, this book would be a more exciting step toward working with the library.

The book is generally well written but it's only a very brief introduction to some modules of Juce. It's surprising there isn't much info about digital audio or even a complete practical project like a simple vst plugin. There's zero information about how to use Juce with MIDI for example.The code has typos, although these are easy to spot since the author assumes you have a decent knowledge of C++ and programming in general. This is not a book for beginners.The book is quite disappointing since you can't do much with what you learn other than trying out simple things. It seems as if the author was preparing the terrain for more interesting stuff, and then the book ends.

Recently read. For those who aren't familiar with working with this powerful C++ audio application framework this is a great crash course. Getting Started with JUCE will show you just how easy it is to build audio applications of your own even without advanced programming knowledge.If you aren't familiar with JUCE:JUCE is a C++ framework often used for creating audio plugins (VST/VSTi) that are compatible with major DAW's. What some may not realize is that JUCE itself is also a great platform for building audio applications for the desktop.The book covers getting started with creating your project, how to use components and create graphics for your GUI, responsive layouts, the JUCE event system (handling mouse or other interactions), working common audio formats, the JUCE undo system for building undo options into your applications, and lastly touches on concurrency. Along the the way this book does a nice job of pointing out any caveats related to the task at hand to keep you from hitting common snags. There is also a full example of how to build your own media player using JUCE.It bears mentioning: while you can build anything in JUCE from advanced synthesizers to mutli-band dynamics processors the advanced knowledge and implementation of the required DSP processing algorithms are out of the scope of this book. JUCE provides everything you need to build cross platform, multi-daw, plug-ins and applications (this is a bigger deal than you think when you consider that each version of every DAW may implement the VST specifications differently). Throw in some DSP knowledge and this book and you'll ready to build the next great virtual synth.

It is indeed a helpfull book.For me, it was more or less helpfull. I had to hardly work through my thoughts on how to setup my vision.Therefore, yes i read this book twice, parts of it up to five times. I have only 6 months experience in cpp.Without third party support with Tutorials from other websites, I wouldn't have understood anything by the book alone.Important Information on how to do things is in my oppinion missing.But the book gives you a quick step into the faces of the Juce Framework and explain how some tech examples work.An Example:Starting up a new Project and open up the the Gui Editor ain't rocket science with JUCE.But even after reading the book twice, I wasn' t able to do that.10 mins of another Tutorial, and that Job was done.Then going back to the book and to the Online Class References helped me out a lot.Over all:Be sure, the book isn' t your only source of knowledge or you will be hopelessly lost.My advice for Noobs like I was would be:- get the book, read it once.- try to understand the basic concepts in the book -> therefor use other tutorials and the class reference- Master the Class Reference (I know it suxx hard, but...) -> JUCE only correct and good Dokumentation is inside JUCE itself! -> Class Dokumentation -> There is no way around understanding the class reference, but the book and working with JUCE helps you a lot.hf coding

Ce livre représente environ 1% de ce qu'il faudrait connaitre pour utiliser JUCE.On aimerait qu'il soit environ 10 fois plus épais pour nous apporter les solides connaissances requisespour utiliser le Framework JUCE qui est très puissant mais pêche par absence de documentation et de tutoriaux.Cela dit il est très utile à lire, et permet d'entrer dans cet univers complexe.Je ne regrette pas de l'avoir acquis et je m'y réfère souvent. J'espère qu'un jour il y aura une suite.Les exemples sont bien choisis et sont didactiques. Cependant il y a quelques exemples qui ne fonctionnentplus tels qu'ils sont écrits, car depuis l'écriture de ce livre, JUCE a évolué (il évolue tous les jours). Il faut donc adapter soi mêmeces exemples en fonction de ce que JUCE est devenu, ce qui peut être également un bon exercice.Il est nécessaire bien sûr d'avoir de bonnes connaissances en C++ pour lire ce livre, tout comme pour utiliser JUCE d'ailleurs.

I may be a little bit biased here, because I'm the author of the JUCE library itself! But it's great to see a book like this available, and I'm sure it'll be very welcome to anyone who's trying to get to grips with C++ / JUCE, where there has always been a lack of tutorials aimed at beginners.The book's really nicely-paced, with clear walk-throughs to help beginners get rolling with the tools and basic set-up. It'd take a far larger book than this to cover in detail everything that the library can do, but I think the author has made all the right choices in picking the high-level areas to focus on and explain in detail.All in all, excellently done - I'm proud to see such a high quality book written about my work!

C'est intéressant techniquement pour les débutant, mais vraiment très léger. Attention, c'est vraiment un livre d'initiation et il est également pas très épais (158 pages et en grosses police de caractères...). Donc un livre relativement onéreux et ayant pas un bon rapport prix / apport de connaissances :( Donc je ne le recommande pas sauf pour les grands débutants et encore !

I thought this book would cover some basics about audio plugins and applications but its actually a book about how to set up basic GUI's and deal with text, images and files. If that what you want then I guess its ok for what it is, but I got Juce for audio applications and this book is completely useless in that regard. To be honest I cant even see who would be helped by this book. I guess Its useful to those who only want to use Juce for these more niche areas.