Light Host

A simple VST/AU host for OS X, Windows, and Linux that sits in the menu/task bar.

Note: This fork has been updated to build on modern Windows 11 with Visual Studio 2026 and JUCE 8, since the original project targeted Visual Studio 2015 and JUCE 4 (~2016). Deprecated JUCE APIs (ScopedPointer, old AudioProcessorGraph node/connection methods, etc.) were updated to their modern equivalents. Functionality and behavior are unchanged — this is purely a toolchain/compatibility update. VST3 plugin hosting is supported; VST2 support was dropped since Steinberg discontinued the VST2 SDK in 2018.

Building

• Requires JUCE 8 and Visual Studio 2022 or newer.
• Open LightHost.jucer in the Projucer, set your JUCE module paths, and generate a Visual Studio exporter.
• Build with the Visual Studio IDE.

Features

See #1

Screenshot

Credits

Originally created by Rolando Islas. This fork maintained by Ekko.