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I created a M4L device called RecPanner. It's a utility that will watch over the current track to handle auto-panning. When the track is recording, RecPanner centers the track's panning, once the track is done recording RecPanner pans the track to the target panning. I use "metro" as a periodic ...

Since you are doing Windows only I would suggest looking into VST.Net. It encapsulates some of the gory details to help get started, then, once you are more familiar with the native VST API you can get into that also.
That's pretty interesting. Would I incur a performance penalty by using .Net? It ...

My question is pretty simple - if I were going to sit down and start working on a plugin to use in Ableton on Windows, what format/libraries should I use?

I will be doing all of this in C++, on Windows. Since the plugin framework is up in the air, I plan to keep the worker code encapsulated away ...

This is a bit of an odd question, but does anyone know if Ableton has an exposed programming interface for plugins? I want to build a piece of software that can make use of the notes->midi functionality in the new Live, and based on those midi lines build other parts in midi and trigger them. My ...