Steinberg discontinues support for VST2 plug-ins

[Milton Sica]

 

I was know about this notice. How is the opinion the friends this forum.

https://www.gearnews.com/steinberg-discontinues-support-for-vst2-plug-ins/

 

[azslow3]

When your new "product" is so bad that no one want it... normally it is a good idea to (a) make your new product better (b) make completely different new product.

Steinberg decision: "When our new "product" is so bad that no one want it... we will force everyone discontinue old product".

That is the story of VST2 -> VST3. They have first declared VST2 "obsolete" (long time ago). Then they forbid new developers write VST2 (since 2018).  They drop support in own DAWs now.

Well... I hope as the result people just switch from Cubase. And I hope other DAWs developers switch from VST to something else (on Windows). In fact only tiny code in one framework should be written, in case Juce support something else on Windows, VST3 will die.

Just some "highlights" of VST3: no MIDI 1.0, many parts require terrible workarounds and since not documented well can fail in particular DAWs; the documentation at many places doesn't match there own SDK; ABI is made in hope/luck/wish different compilers are compatible, they are at the moment, but no one ever has claimed they must be compatible and that level; bug fixing takes years, even for obvious bugs (several lines of the code, with bugs almost in every line, was not touched for... 2 years after detailed report).

BTW "gray" licensed VST2, fortunately allowed by EU rules, can have own life apart from Steinberg. Simple, well documented and without any special assumptions, that was great invention. The same with ASIO. So technically brilliant ideas, made far from perfect just by bad licenses...

 

[Byron Dickens]

This has already been discussed extensively.