MissWatson is a lightweight VST host designed for debugging and batch processing with a single VST plugin. It runs from a console and can easily be attached to a debugger such as GDB for plugin analysis. It has a number of options that can be passed to it from the command line, fully simulating a realtime VST host.

It also has accurate logging (in both miliseconds and sample count), and can do host and plugin benchmarking for total processing time. It also provides detailed logging to assist in crash debugging.

Features

• Supports DLL (Windows), Mach-O (Mac OSX), and CFM (Mac OS Classic) plugin formats
• Can query plugin's parameter and program lists
• Command line interface for parameters and programs
• Can open plugin editor windows
• Audio file I/O to plugin
• Detailed benchmarking statistics for host, plugin CPU usage

New in v1.0b1

• Support for AU plugins, both as effects and instruments.
• Support for instrument plugins. An --input-MIDI switch is now available to feed the plugin a MIDI file from disk.
• Other minor bugfixes and cleanups.