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4 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2020-07-06 · latest 2025-10-23

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  1. …/rant off *) Yes, the VST3 SDK is huge, but the only things you really need are the headers in https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vst3_pluginterfaces/tree/m... . The VST2 SDK only consistet of two header files (aeffect.h and aeffectx.h)
    comment by spacechild1 · 2025-10-23 · in VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT
  2. …if the layout for such classes (vtables) is not standardized and may differ across compilers. [1] https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vst3_pluginterfaces/blob/3...
    comment by codedokode · 2025-10-23 · in VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT
  3. This is the absolute worst part of VST3. These 2 soul-crushing lines in the build file: https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vst3_pluginterfaces/blob/m... # pluginterfaces should actually be a header-only library, # but it has some sources as…
    comment by gavinray · 2021-10-31 · in Declarative, non-intrusive, compile-time C++ reflection for audio plug-ins
  4. …as VST2). I've written a cross-platform VST3 host, and "pluginterfaces" is really all you need ( https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vst3_pluginterfaces ). I don't think the actual VST3 plugin API is significantly larger than LV2. I have…
    comment by spacechild1 · 2020-07-06 · in Paul Davis, lead developer of Ardour on fixing big Linux audio issues