First Impressions with LV2 Plugin Development (almost a tutorial)

Well, its been a while hasn't it? I'm actually done with my thesis. Done. Completo. Tapos na. Weird. Luckily I still have some publications from it to submit, otherwise I wouldn't have a single thing to put off. Except...we bought a  house, and it needs a new roof, and I should be working on that...

But I'm not. In fact, I've been pretty busy with trying to spend my time on unimportant things like synthesizers. I finally started writing one. It actually started when I found out someone was making LV2 midi filters that I'd been wanting to do for quite some time (to add "humanization" in Ardour 3 etc.) I contributed a  variant that used a normal distribution rather than a uniform one (using a modified Marsaglia polar method no less). Once I'd done that lv2 plugin it just broke down the wall and I felt like I could easily do a synth.