deva wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 5:10 pm
Some day perhaps, but for now it doesn't have high priority, since the VST2 use-cases mostly overlap with the VST3 ones as far as I understand it?
The problem with VST2 is that the official SDK is hard to find online, and the (pirate) copies still around are being taken down by Steinberg via DMCA.
So in the long term, VST3 support is a pretty big thing. Also because the VST2 version can't be shipped in distros (due to licensing issues), while the VST3 version could.
In the repo I co-maintain for example we have some REAPER users. REAPER doesn't support LV2, but it does support VST2 and VST3. We can't distribute the VST2 version of the plugin so REAPER users can only bridge the LV2 version.
Now you could say, who cares about what developers of a proprietary DAW do? I would even agree but I believe that being able to recommend DrumGizmo even to those users would be great. I also think VST3 is the future (due to its FLOSS license and the fact that it's also used on other platforms) and that supporting in means being ready for the next few years.