Existing Networked Music Performance (NMP) solutions offer high-fidelity audio with minimal latency but often lack the versatility needed for multi-plugin configurations and multi-modal integrations, while ensuring ease of use and future development. This paper presents a novel NMP solution called Corelink Audio which aims to address these limitations. Corelink Audio is built on the Corelink network framework, a data agnostic communication protocol, and JUCE, an audio plugin development framework. Corelink audio can be used flexibly as an Audio Unit (AU) or Virtual Studio Technology (VST) plugin inside different host environments and can be easily integrated with other audio or non-audio data streams. Users can also extend the Corelink Audio codebase to tailor it to their own specific needs using the available JUCE and Corelink documentation. This paper details the architecture and technical specifics of the software. The performance of the system, including latency measurements and audio artifacts under varying conditions, is also evaluated and discussed.
