BYOD (Build-Your-Own Distortion)

BYOD is a guitar distortion plugin with a customisable signal chain that allows users to create their own guitar distortion effects. The plugin contains a wide variety of distortion effects from analog modelled circuits to purely digital creations, along with some musical tone-shaping filters, and a handful of other useful processing blocks.

Quick Links

• Latest Release
• BYOD for iOS
• Nightly Builds
• User Manual

BYOD is open to contributions! If you would like to add new guitar effect processors, please see the documentation.

Building

To build from scratch, you must have CMake installed.

# Clone the repository
$ git clone https://github.com/Chowdhury-DSP/BYOD.git
$ cd BYOD

# initialize and set up submodules
$ git submodule update --init --recursive

# build with CMake
$ cmake -Bbuild
$ cmake --build build --parallel 4

If you'd like to make an optimized "release" build, it is suggested to use some slightly different build commands:

$ cmake -Bbuild -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
$ cmake --build build --config Release --parallel 4

After a successful build, the resulting plugin binaries will be located in build/BYOD_artefacts.

If building for Linux, please review the Linux dependencies used by the BYOD CI pipeline.

Compiling with OpenGL support

By default, OpenGL support is enabled on Windows, and is disabled on all other platforms. If you would like to override the default behaviour, you can pass the argument -DCHOWDSP_ENABLE_OPENGL=<ON|OFF> to the CMake configure step.

Credits:

• GUI Framework - Plugin GUI Magic
• Extra Icons - FontAwesome
• Fuzzy String Searching - RapidFuzz
• C++ Utilities:
  • Magic Enum
  • Surge Synth Team's cpputils

Credits for the individual processors are shown on the information page for each processor. Big thanks to all who have contributed!

License

BYOD is open source, and is dual-licensed under the General Public License Version 3. For more details, please see the licensing documentation. Enjoy!