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EqualizerAPO-Soundboard

A 64-bit VST2 Soundboard for Equalizer APO with direct microphone mixing.
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A 64-bit VST2 Soundboard for Equalizer APO with direct microphone mixing.
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APO Soundboard

A lightweight 64-bit VST2 soundboard for Equalizer APO that mixes triggered audio directly into the processed microphone stream. It is designed to work without VB-Cable, Voicemeeter, or another virtual audio device for microphone routing.

Current recommended build: v0.9.0

v0.3/v0.4 were experimental architecture branches. v0.8.3-v0.8.6 are preserved as superseded development releases. v0.9.0 is the recommended current build.

Features

  • 16 soundboard pads with global hotkeys
  • Single-click to select a pad
  • Double-click to play a pad
  • Right-click pad menu for pad-specific management
  • Selectable waveform region with live playback playhead and mouse cursor guide
  • Live per-pad volume while audio is already playing
  • Live per-pad pitch from -12 to +12 semitones
  • 0.5-unit fine steps with magnetic major snap points
  • HQ cubic resampling and host-rate conversion
  • Up to 32 overlapping voices with oldest-voice stealing
  • Global Stop All and Board Mute hotkeys
  • Custom pad names
  • Background audio loading and bounded decoded-sample memory
  • Missing-file relocation
  • Local soundboard monitoring to a Windows playback device
  • Responsive Soundboard / Diagnostics views with interactive pad/button states
  • Per-pad Auto Sweep (triangle-wave LFO), with Speed (0.1–5.0 Hz) and Depth (0.5–12.0 st)
  • Light/Dark themes with a persistent user preference
  • Pad hotkeys also select/highlight their pad without stealing application focus
  • Restores previous controller window size and position
  • Config backup, CRC validation and recovery
  • Audio engine self-test and detailed runtime diagnostics
  • No installer in current releases

How it works

Equalizer APO hosts the versioned APOSoundboard_vx.x.x.dll in the microphone processing chain. A companion APOSoundboardController.exe owns the UI, loaded samples, global hotkeys, waveform regions, local monitoring, and persistent configuration.

The controller and VST communicate over a local Windows named pipe. The final microphone + soundboard mix happens inside the VST in Equalizer APO's capture path.

The controller does not create a virtual microphone or virtual audio cable.

Installation

  1. Download the latest release ZIP.

  2. Extract the entire APOSoundboard folder into Equalizer APO's VST folder:

    C:\Program Files\EqualizerAPO\VSTPlugins\

  3. Keep the versioned DLL and APOSoundboardController.exe together in that folder.

  4. In Equalizer APO Configurator, make sure Equalizer APO is enabled for the microphone/capture device you actually use.

  5. In Configuration Editor, add Plugins -> VST plugin to that microphone chain.

  6. Select the APOSoundboard DLL from the extracted folder.

  7. Click Open panel to launch the controller.

  8. Load sounds, assign hotkeys, and test with an application actively using the microphone.

When upgrading, replace both the DLL and controller from the same release.

Pad controls

  • Left click: select pad
  • Double click: play pad
  • Right click: open pad actions
  • Waveform drag: choose the playback region
  • Volume: 0-200%, 0.5% steps, magnetic 25% snap points
  • Pitch: -12 to +12 st, 0.5 st steps, magnetic 3 st snap points
  • Double-click Volume: reset to 100%
  • Double-click Pitch: reset to 0 st

Pitch is sampler-style resampling, so changing pitch also changes playback speed/duration.

Pad right-click menu

  • Set Hotkey...
  • Clear Hotkey
  • Load / Replace Audio...
  • Reload Audio
  • Remove Audio
  • Rename Pad...
  • Reset Volume to 100%
  • Reset Pitch to 0
  • Reset Playback Range
  • Open File Location
  • Duplicate Pad To...
  • Reset Pad...

Duplicate Pad copies the pad's audio/settings but deliberately does not duplicate its hotkey.

Appearance and Auto Sweep

Switch Tools → Dark Mode to toggle the controller theme. The choice is remembered in %LOCALAPPDATA%\APOSoundboard\config_v05.bin.theme, separately from the main pad configuration. Some Windows-native dialogs and menu surfaces retain their operating-system appearance.

Auto Sweep is an optional per-pad triangle-wave oscillator. It moves the live pitch slider automatically; because this sampler changes speed with pitch, the playback rate changes too. Speed (Hz) controls how quickly the sweep cycles, not an independent playback-speed function. Depth (st) sets its pitch range. Both fields accept numeric decimal input.

Audio formats

  • WAV: built-in decoder for common PCM and float WAV formats
  • MP3, AAC/M4A, WMA, FLAC: Windows Media Foundation
  • OGG / OGA / Opus: accepted through Windows Media Foundation when Windows exposes a compatible Vorbis/Opus decoder

v0.9.0 does not bundle a native Vorbis/Opus decoder, so unusual OGG/Opus streams can still fail on some Windows installations.

Local monitoring

The controller can play the soundboard locally while the same sound is mixed into the microphone path.

  • Monitoring starts OFF on every launch
  • Output device can be selected from the controller
  • Monitor volume is independent from the microphone/soundboard mix level
  • Headphones are recommended to avoid acoustic feedback into the microphone
  • The current stable build prefers the compatibility-oriented Windows playback path used by the v0.8.1/v0.8.2 line, with fallback handling retained

Diagnostics

The Diagnostics view groups runtime information into responsive side-by-side cards:

  • Audio Engine: VST connection, sample rate, block size, ring fill, latency, underruns
  • Output: peak, clipped frames, board state, active voices, voice steals, dropped triggers
  • Local Monitor: device/backend, buffer, underruns/overruns, corrections, errors
  • System: RAM, peak RAM, sample RAM, CPU, threads, handles, GDI/USER objects
  • Session: reconnects, protocol mismatches, lowest ring fill, resampler/smoothing state, decode workers
  • Status: hotkey conflicts, backup/config state, Stop All / Board Mute shortcuts, uptime

Configuration

Settings remain under:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\APOSoundboard\config_v05.bin

The filename is retained for compatibility even though the internal config format has evolved. Current v0.9.0 uses the v11 soundboard config format, with theme preference saved separately. Current builds keep atomic saving, CRC validation and .bak recovery.

Compatibility notes

  • Windows x64
  • Equalizer APO x64
  • VST2 host path used by Equalizer APO
  • Applications that bypass Windows system effects may also bypass Equalizer APO
  • Binaries are currently unsigned, so SmartScreen/antivirus may warn about an unknown application

Development

This project is roughly half hand-coded by me and half vibe-coded with AI assistance. AI is used to help prototype, debug, audit and iterate, while the project is tested and shaped around actual Equalizer APO use.

Building from source

The current source can be cross-compiled with LLVM clang + lld-link. See BUILDING.txt for the exact current build commands.

Security / resource notes

The project does not use networking, downloader logic, registry startup persistence, process injection or remote-thread injection. Decoded sample memory is bounded, and the real-time path is designed to avoid unnecessary allocation/locking.

See AUDIT.txt for current build checks.

Version history

See CHANGELOG.md and the individual notes under release-notes/.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.

Disclaimer

This is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Equalizer APO.

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From the balcony · 3 of 4 clapped

  1. Princessclapped
    Has a clear release (v0.9.0), MIT license, working demo status, detailed feature list, and appears to be a functional VST2 plugin with no security advisories.
  2. Crusoeclapped
    No vulnerable dependencies, local-only audio processing with no telemetry mentioned, and no credential requests—clean plumbing for a VST soundboard plugin.
  3. Schnitzelclapped
    A delightfully weird VST soundboard with 16 pads, live pitch/volume control, and playful features like auto-sweep LFO that sounds genuinely fun to use.

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