So apparently plugin devlopers have to migrate to vst3, since steinberg are ending the vst2. But i was wondering what happens to Vst2 support in daws? I’ve read various stuff on the internet. Some says daw makers can be forced to remove vst2 support, others say the opposite. I really hope that Vst2 stays in future Renoise. I like some plugins that probably never will be Vst3.
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No one knows what will be in future. In case there’s no more VST2 support in future DAW versions, you could keep an old version and use that instead of “upgrading” to a new version that doesn’t support VST2 anymore. Who needs to update continuously if one’s pleased with what’s already there? Or you could use a plugin wrapper to adapt VST2 to the current DAW version and make your old plugins work that way, provided wrappers are still available in future. Or CLAP will be superior to VST3 and no one needs anything from Steinberg anymore. So team Renoise needs to do two things: 1. Implement support for any possible plugin format, 2. improve and optimize plugin performance in general.
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once Apple removes Rosetta2 from Mac OS, that will be the death knell for VST2.4 on Mac OS, as far as I know.
This free plugin will host VST2
DAWs can still support it, but there will be no more VST2.4 plugins authorized (and none have been authorized for a good while).
If an OS update breaks it, it’s probably going to be gone for good but don’t quote me on that >_>
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