With new features and improvements impacting all plug-in formats, it requires quite a bit of testing before the official release, in order to validate that all plug-ins work well, with all possible combinations: for 16 plug-in products, that’s 35 actual plug-ins (some plug-ins have multiple flavors). It is also hours of testing for beta testers once the beta versions are out – thank you all for your efforts, that’s the only way for us to cover as many cases as possible! It is also hours of testing during software development to ensure that things are working well in most host applications for this new format – that’s the most tricky part: there are almost as many ways of supporting VST3 as VST3 host applications (it ends up being worse than for VST2…)! Of course it takes a while to support a new plug-in format: that’s hours of programming to implement all the features available in our plug-ins in the new format, starting from scratch: even if most plug-in formats are similar, each one has its own way of doing things, even for features shared by all formats (audio processing, presets etc.). VST3 Software Development & Quality Assurance (QA) This blog is called “The Dark Side of the Cat” after all, and trust me, it’s pretty dark out there! So we’d like to give you an insight of what’s going on at the office for such an event and share the story with you. With a massive update of 16 plug-ins, in all plug-in formats including a new one ( VST3), it’s a lot of things happening behind the scenes of, even if it just looks like a few lines of “new features & improvements” in the release notes.
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