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Title: VST3 support?
Post by: stanzani on August 25, 2020, 10:15:05 am: no plan to make JRiver housing VST3 plugins? I am happy to support JRiver every year but I'd really like to see this thing moving

thanks
Title: Re: VST3 support?
Post by: Mitchco on August 25, 2020, 11:09:40 am: Would be great to see VST3 support!

The issue for plugin developers is that if you have not signed Steinberg's VST2 SDK licensing agreement before Oct 1, 2018, you can no longer license the VST2 SDK and therefore cannot release a VST2 (legacy) plugin. https://sdk.steinberg.net/viewtopic.php?t=561
Title: Re: VST3 support?
Post by: michael123 on August 25, 2020, 11:43:51 am: But what about sonic quality?
I heard that Dirac as vst2 or vst3 are identical
Title: Re: VST3 support?
Post by: Mitchco on August 25, 2020, 04:06:40 pm: Hi michael, the issue is not about sonic quality, but being able to use VST3 plugins in JRiver as most of the plugin vendors have moved to VST3. There are a number of improvement made with VST3, but these are mostly related to developers of plugins and not sonic improvements: https://www.steinberg.net/en/company/technologies/vst3.html

The issue is a licensing issue for plugin developers. Some plugin developers would like to be able to support JRiver by offering their plugins. But if the developer did not sign a licensing agreement with Steinberg back in 2018, then they cannot license the VST2 SDK and therefore cannot offer a plugin for JRiver...

Dirac has a licensing agreement with Steinberg, so they are able to offer both legacy (i.e. VST2) and the newer VST3 format plugins and indeed from a sonic perspective, are identical.
Title: Re: VST3 support?
Post by: michael123 on August 28, 2020, 03:14:46 am: Thanks, clear.

The way you describe it, it is a showstopper issue.
Title: Re: VST3 support?
Post by: Awesome Donkey on September 04, 2020, 03:07:11 pm: So, you guys might be interested in this. (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,126706.0.html)