CLAP: An new plugin format

    • March 8, 2023 at 12:50 pm #5117
      Phil Koenig
      Participant

        A heads up – There is a new, apparently open source (divorcing it from Steinbergs corporate whims), plugin format that recently came out.  It’s called CLAP.  STD jokes aside, it is already supported in REAPER, and some plugin makers are already shipping plugs. Just an FYI.

      • March 9, 2023 at 8:18 pm #5122
      • March 10, 2023 at 12:42 pm #5123
        Phil Koenig
        Participant

          Wow, a great link!  Thanks Bob!

        • March 12, 2023 at 12:15 pm #5376
          Bob Katz
          Keymaster

            We’ll never see Avid supporting a third party plugin format 🙁

          • March 12, 2023 at 3:15 pm #5410
            Gregory Pastic
            Participant

              What makes this different from the other formats other than it being open source?  How does that benefit the end user?  And, do we really need another format?

            • March 13, 2023 at 3:09 pm #5488
              Phil Koenig
              Participant

                All great questions.  I don’t have any CLAP plugins so I cannot say from experience.  But I think of CLAP vs. VST similarly to Linux vs. Microsoft.  There are times when you want to escape being under the thumb, and dependent on, a single corporate overlord.

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