It seems to be the industry standard at least. I have played around with iPlug2 and AudioKit a little bit but not enough to really form an opinion. (iPlug2 is described by the authors as "not production ready" and AudioKit is mac / ios only). Source: over 2 years ago

You’re up for a lot of work, but I would start with AudioKit which is an abstraction over AVFoundation. Source: over 2 years ago

I can’t help with that, but I would suggest looking at AudioKit. Even if it doesn’t help you replace that dependency, it might give you pointers for doing it yourself. Source: almost 3 years ago

Might this be what you're looking for? Specifically Non-Mixer: https://non.tuxfamily.org/. Source: 6 months ago

I would also add Non DAW. Great example of modular design, extremely lightweight, non-destructive editing. The session files of Non Timeline are also comfortable and fun to parse or even modify with sed/awk etc scripts. http://non.tuxfamily.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

Are the sessions by any chance stored as plain text files? What's the session format like? I used Non DAW [1] quite a bit to edit radio shows, and I loved its session format: each and every editing step is written in the file as a single-line entry. As a result, the sessions were really fun to parse and modify with awk scripts. The "unlimited undo" feature was also just recorded lines in a text file. Most... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago