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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
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appear in the wrong location after the GUI has been expanded. You can enable
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an alternative [editor hosting mode](#compatibility-options) to fix this.
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- **SWAM Cello** has a bug where it asks the host for the current buffer's time
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and tempo information for every sample it processes instead of doing it only
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once per buffer, resulting in very bad performance. You can enable the time
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info cache [compatibility option](#compatibility-options) to work around this
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until this is fixed on the plugin's side.
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- Plugins like **FabFilter Pro-Q 3** that can share data between different
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- The VST2 version of **SWAM Cello** has a bug where it asks the host for the
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current buffer's time and tempo information for every sample it processes
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instead of doing it only once per buffer, resulting in very bad performance.
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You can enable the time info cache [compatibility
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option](#compatibility-options) to work around this until this is fixed on the
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plugin's side.
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- VST2 plugins like **FabFilter Pro-Q 3** that can share data between different
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instances of the same plugin plugins have to be hosted within a single process
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for that functionality to work. See the [plugin groups](#plugin-groups)
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section for instructions on how to set this up.
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section for instructions on how to set this up. This is not necessary for VST3
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plugins, as multiple instances of those plugins will always be hosted in a
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single process by design.
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- **Drag-and-drop** from applications running under Wine to X11 does not yet
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work, so you won't be able to drag samples and MIDI files from a plugin to the
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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
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of the box Wine setup because of missing dependencies. Please let me know if
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you know which dependencies are needed for these plugins to render correctly.
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- MIDI key labels (commonly used for drum machines and multisamplers) will not
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be updated after the host first asks for them since VST 2.4 has no way to let
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the host know that those labels have been updated. Deactivating and
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reactivating the plugin will cause these labels to be updated again for the
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current patch.
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- MIDI key labels for VST2 plugins (commonly used for drum machines and
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multisamplers) will not be updated after the host first asks for them since
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VST 2.4 has no way to let the host know that those labels have been updated.
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Deactivating and reactivating the plugin will cause these labels to be updated
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again for the current patch.
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There are also some VST2.X extension features that have not been implemented yet
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because I haven't seen them used. Let me know if you need any of these features
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for a certain plugin or VST host:
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There are also some extension features for both VST2.4 and VST3 that have not
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been implemented yet because I either haven't seen them used or because we don't
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have permission to do so yet. Examples of this are:
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- SysEx messages. In addition to MIDI, VST 2.4 also supports SysEx. I don't know
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of any hosts or plugins that use this, but please let me know if this is
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needed for something.
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- Vendor specific extension (for instance, for
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- SysEx messages for VST2 plugins. In addition to MIDI, VST 2.4 also supports
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SysEx. I don't know of any hosts or plugins that use this, but please let me
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know if this is needed for something.
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- Vendor specific VST2.4 extensions (for instance, for
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[REAPER](https://www.reaper.fm/sdk/vst/vst_ext.php), though most of these
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extension functions will work out of the box without any modifications).
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- The [Presonus extensions](https://presonussoftware.com/en_US/developer) to teh
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VST3 interfaces. All of these extensions have been superseded by official VST3
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interfaces in later versions of the VST3 SDK.
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- VST3 plugin support for
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[ARA](https://www.celemony.com/en/service1/about-celemony/technologies). These
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interfaces are currently closed source so we cannot yet implement them, but
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this may chance soon.
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## Building
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@@ -4,10 +4,7 @@ See
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[docs/vst3.md](https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge/blob/master/docs/vst3.md)
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for more information on how the serialization works.
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The following interfaces are not yet implemented:
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- The [Presonus extensions](https://presonussoftware.com/en_US/developer),
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although most of these things seem to overlap with newer VST3 interfaces
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We currently support all official VST 3.7.1 interfaces.
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VST3 plugin interfaces are implemented as follows:
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