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Oxe FM Synth official repository
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Port Oxe FM Synth to GPLv3-ed VST3 #30

Open fpesari opened 5 years ago

fpesari commented 5 years ago

It seems that Steinberg has released the VST3 SDK under the GPLv3 license (on a repo here on Github). At the same time, it seems that VST2 support is coming to an end.

It's possible to build both VST2 and VST3 versions of plugins. I suggest that at the very least, users can choose to build a VST3 version. This would require some modifications to the code, of course, since it seems that the APIs are different (I am no VST expert but I can't find AudioEffectX in VST3, for example).

oxesoft commented 5 years ago

Thank you for the information about GPLed VST3 SDK. I didn't know. It looks an interesting activity for my backlog.

qualtrough1713 commented 4 years ago

The makefiles appear to be calling out VST2 dependencies that are not available in the GPL release (or at least are not in the same places in the file hierarchy), so the code in its current state will not compile on Linux. From the looks of it, the only options are either to have an older commercial version of the Steinberg SDK or use Wine on the Win DLL binaries.

LoveBodhi commented 3 years ago

VST2 is non-free, and distributing VST2 form will cause Copyright Infringement.

djtuBIG-MaliceX commented 3 years ago

Can concur with this. VST SDK 2.4 is also far more difficult to source nowadays. I happened to still have a copy of it on my drive in order to compile the source code here, however this is no longer readily available by Steinberg. That being said, there is quite a bit of re-architecting to do for supporting VST3.