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Having only used VSTs but never even looked into how they're actually built - what does this now mean in simple terms? Did you need a specific closed source fra
by matkv 11mo ago
Having only used VSTs but never even looked into how they're actually built - what does this now mean in simple terms? Did you need a specific closed source framework to build them or something like that? What has changed now?
- cdavid 11mo agoYou had to accept some license terms before you could download the VST SDK. When linux audio started to get "serious" 20 years ago, it was a commonly discussed pain point. Concretely, it made distributing OSS VST plugins a pain. Especially for Linux which generally will want to build their packages.
- TonyTrapp 11mo agoNote that his was the VST2 era. VST3 was commercial license or GPL 3, which was an improvement, but only slightly, because it excluded open-source software released under the GPL 2, and also MIT/BSD/whatever-licensed software couldn't use it (without effectively turning the whole software into GPL-licensed software).