An audio-plugin is a software module implementing audio processing or control, packaged for a host application, with parameters exposed as automatable controls, a processing graph that maps input audio buffers to output buffers per sample rate and block size, and persistence via plugin formats, presets, and host project files. [formal: pluginum audium | substrate: matter | horizon: a life | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.22]
Accepted ontology entry
audio-plugin
An audio-plugin is a software module implementing audio processing or control, packaged for a host application, with parameters exposed as automatable controls, a processing graph that maps input audio buffers to output buffers per sample…
Definition
Why it is in scope
A human-made software component for audio processing, built to persist in digital audio workstations, plugin formats, and project files.
Names and aliases
- audio-pluginen · CANONICAL
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An audio-plugin is a specific kind of software: a software module packaged for a host application with audio I/O. The definition pins audio-plugin as a software artifact with processing graph and persistence via plugin formats.
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An audio-plugin operates by performing audio processing; removing signal processing operations would stop the plugin from producing audio output. The removal test is met at operational level.
- digital-audioINSTANCE_OF →
Audio-plugin is a specific kind of digital-audio software: it runs inside a host application to process or generate audio digitally. A speaker would call it 'a digital audio application/plugin.' Nearest kind among existing entries is digital-audio.
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- Aug 16, 2026, 1:41 PM UTC
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