Clap: The New Audio Plug-In Standard

Re:Clap: The New Audio Plug-In Standard by smoldesu on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @06:40PM (#31760342)

Old standards suck. VST is owned by Steinberg, and has caused all sorts of trouble in the quest for the "perfect" plugin format. Apple had a couple different solutions to this, but all of them were obviously proprietary to their ecosystem (and only a sidegrade to being shacked to Steinberg). It would be nice to see "one standard to rule them all" for Windows, MacOS and Linux, and u-he has enough weight behind their name to influence a change.

There's a lot of hope behind this, and unless Apple decides to open-source their plugin format, there's nobody to compete. VSTs are so bad that most DAWs would adopt an alternative with zero additional features, simply because Steinberg's positioning is a pain for the community. I reckon this little format has a chance, but it remains to be seen whether it's successful or not.

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Re:Clap: The New Audio Plug-In Standard by Optimal_Persona on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @07:57PM (#31760961)

Since CLAP was announced last year, I've seen lot of online interest in CLAP from electronic musicians, plus independent audio developers who are sick of dealing with bureaucratic BS around Apple's AU Avid's AAX, and Steinberg's VST plugin standards. I would put Urs Heckman from u-he at the tip-top of not just audio DSP developers, but small business owners who truly care about advancing the state of the art. If u-he and Bitwig can get other Berlin-based audio shops on board this has a good chance of succeeding.

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