VST 2 coming to an end. - Steinberg

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VST 2 coming to an end. - Steinberg

Post by granted » Fri May 18, 2018 2:28 pm

Well maybe now Ableton will allow VST3 plugins. If Ableton had started working on this years ago then there wouldn't be a problem now.

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Re: VST 2 coming to an end. - Steinberg

Post by login » Fri May 18, 2018 2:50 pm

That doesn't mean VST2 will suddenly stop working or developers will stop making them, or DAW's supporting them.

I am going to bet the adoption of VST3 will remain as slow as it has been until today unless DAWs drop VST2 support.

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Re: VST 2 coming to an end. - Steinberg

Post by granted » Fri May 18, 2018 3:53 pm

login wrote:That doesn't mean VST2 will suddenly stop working or developers will stop making them, or DAW's supporting them.

I am going to bet the adoption of VST3 will remain as slow as it has been until today unless DAWs drop VST2 support.
Yes, and that's what makes it so sad.

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Re: VST 2 coming to an end. - Steinberg

Post by H20nly » Fri May 18, 2018 6:36 pm

VST 2 compatibility with Steinberg VST hosts will remain
all is not lost.

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Re: VST 2 coming to an end. - Steinberg

Post by granted » Fri Feb 08, 2019 10:57 am

login wrote:That doesn't mean VST2 will suddenly stop working or developers will stop making them, or DAW's supporting them.

I am going to bet the adoption of VST3 will remain as slow as it has been until today unless DAWs drop VST2 support.

Guess you lost that bet.

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Re: VST 2 coming to an end. - Steinberg

Post by Machinesworking » Fri Feb 08, 2019 1:35 pm

granted wrote:
login wrote:That doesn't mean VST2 will suddenly stop working or developers will stop making them, or DAW's supporting them.

I am going to bet the adoption of VST3 will remain as slow as it has been until today unless DAWs drop VST2 support.

Guess you lost that bet.
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Re: VST 2 coming to an end. - Steinberg

Post by jlgrimes » Fri Feb 08, 2019 6:04 pm

That said even though Ableton is getting VST 3 now, it will be awhile before VST2 is fully phased out. A lot of heavy hitters (cough, cough NI) haven't even converted, and with the list of freeware plug-ins that probably never get converted to VST 3, there will always be a demand for VST 2, (as there is still some demand for older 32-bit plug-ins). I think the conversion is mainly for newer plug-ins to be VST3 compatible to support newer standards. Over time the big players will convert over.

I'm just happy we got VST3 because Ableton was getting in a weird position of not supporting certain plug-ins like Autotune.

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Re: VST 2 coming to an end. - Steinberg

Post by granted » Fri Feb 08, 2019 8:23 pm

jlgrimes wrote:That said even though Ableton is getting VST 3 now, it will be awhile before VST2 is fully phased out. A lot of heavy hitters (cough, cough NI) haven't even converted, and with the list of freeware plug-ins that probably never get converted to VST 3, there will always be a demand for VST 2, (as there is still some demand for older 32-bit plug-ins). I think the conversion is mainly for newer plug-ins to be VST3 compatible to support newer standards. Over time the big players will convert over.

I'm just happy we got VST3 because Ableton was getting in a weird position of not supporting certain plug-ins like Autotune.
I know, I had to "re-buy" autotune for UAD as a VST2.

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Re: VST 2 coming to an end. - Steinberg

Post by jlgrimes » Sat Feb 09, 2019 3:14 am

granted wrote:
jlgrimes wrote:That said even though Ableton is getting VST 3 now, it will be awhile before VST2 is fully phased out. A lot of heavy hitters (cough, cough NI) haven't even converted, and with the list of freeware plug-ins that probably never get converted to VST 3, there will always be a demand for VST 2, (as there is still some demand for older 32-bit plug-ins). I think the conversion is mainly for newer plug-ins to be VST3 compatible to support newer standards. Over time the big players will convert over.

I'm just happy we got VST3 because Ableton was getting in a weird position of not supporting certain plug-ins like Autotune.
I know, I had to "re-buy" autotune for UAD as a VST2.

Bummer.

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