Update readme for the current VST3 support status

We still need to do a lot of testing, and before that there are quite a
few things I need to fix or take a look at, but now we at least
technically support all VST 3.7.1 features.
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- **PSPaudioware** plugins with expandable GUIs, such as E27, may have their GUI
appear in the wrong location after the GUI has been expanded. You can enable
an alternative [editor hosting mode](#compatibility-options) to fix this.
- **SWAM Cello** has a bug where it asks the host for the current buffer's time
and tempo information for every sample it processes instead of doing it only
once per buffer, resulting in very bad performance. You can enable the time
info cache [compatibility option](#compatibility-options) to work around this
until this is fixed on the plugin's side.
- Plugins like **FabFilter Pro-Q 3** that can share data between different
- The VST2 version of **SWAM Cello** has a bug where it asks the host for the
current buffer's time and tempo information for every sample it processes
instead of doing it only once per buffer, resulting in very bad performance.
You can enable the time info cache [compatibility
option](#compatibility-options) to work around this until this is fixed on the
plugin's side.
- VST2 plugins like **FabFilter Pro-Q 3** that can share data between different
instances of the same plugin plugins have to be hosted within a single process
for that functionality to work. See the [plugin groups](#plugin-groups)
section for instructions on how to set this up.
section for instructions on how to set this up. This is not necessary for VST3
plugins, as multiple instances of those plugins will always be hosted in a
single process by design.
- **Drag-and-drop** from applications running under Wine to X11 does not yet
work, so you won't be able to drag samples and MIDI files from a plugin to the
host. At least, not directly. Because Windows applications have to create
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- Most recent **iZotope** plugins don't have a functional GUI in a typical out
of the box Wine setup because of missing dependencies. Please let me know if
you know which dependencies are needed for these plugins to render correctly.
- MIDI key labels (commonly used for drum machines and multisamplers) will not
be updated after the host first asks for them since VST 2.4 has no way to let
the host know that those labels have been updated. Deactivating and
reactivating the plugin will cause these labels to be updated again for the
current patch.
- MIDI key labels for VST2 plugins (commonly used for drum machines and
multisamplers) will not be updated after the host first asks for them since
VST 2.4 has no way to let the host know that those labels have been updated.
Deactivating and reactivating the plugin will cause these labels to be updated
again for the current patch.
There are also some VST2.X extension features that have not been implemented yet
because I haven't seen them used. Let me know if you need any of these features
for a certain plugin or VST host:
There are also some extension features for both VST2.4 and VST3 that have not
been implemented yet because I either haven't seen them used or because we don't
have permission to do so yet. Examples of this are:
- SysEx messages. In addition to MIDI, VST 2.4 also supports SysEx. I don't know
of any hosts or plugins that use this, but please let me know if this is
needed for something.
- Vendor specific extension (for instance, for
- SysEx messages for VST2 plugins. In addition to MIDI, VST 2.4 also supports
SysEx. I don't know of any hosts or plugins that use this, but please let me
know if this is needed for something.
- Vendor specific VST2.4 extensions (for instance, for
[REAPER](https://www.reaper.fm/sdk/vst/vst_ext.php), though most of these
extension functions will work out of the box without any modifications).
- The [Presonus extensions](https://presonussoftware.com/en_US/developer) to teh
VST3 interfaces. All of these extensions have been superseded by official VST3
interfaces in later versions of the VST3 SDK.
- VST3 plugin support for
[ARA](https://www.celemony.com/en/service1/about-celemony/technologies). These
interfaces are currently closed source so we cannot yet implement them, but
this may chance soon.
## Building
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[docs/vst3.md](https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge/blob/master/docs/vst3.md)
for more information on how the serialization works.
The following interfaces are not yet implemented:
- The [Presonus extensions](https://presonussoftware.com/en_US/developer),
although most of these things seem to overlap with newer VST3 interfaces
We currently support all official VST 3.7.1 interfaces.
VST3 plugin interfaces are implemented as follows: