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Our introduction to Linux audio and MIDI
plugin APIs ended with a mention of
the Clever Audio Plugin
(CLAP) but did not get into the details. CLAP is an MIT-licensed API for
developing audio and MIDI plugins that, its developers feel, has the
potential to improve the audio-software situation on Linux. The time has
now come to get to those details and look at the state of CLAP and where it
is headed.