Want a Stochas VST2 version?

All your LV2 and LADSPA goodness and more.

Moderators: MattKingUSA, khz

Post Reply
User avatar
Impostor
Established Member
Posts: 1336
Joined: Wed Aug 17, 2022 1:55 pm
Has thanked: 138 times
Been thanked: 345 times

Want a Stochas VST2 version?

Post by Impostor »

If your host (eg. MusE) doesn't support vst3 plugins, you could run Carla for VST3 plugins, but with Stochas you can build your own VST2 version. You will need VST2SDK and a rather new version of cmake (at least 3.21). (I'm on Mint 20.2 which only has version 3.16 in the repo.)

  1. Not sure if necessary, but I uninstalled the repo versions of cmake and cmake-data.

  2. Download and unpack vst_sdk2_4_rev2.zip from https://archive.org/download/VST2SDK

  3. Download latest cmake (currently version 3.26.4) from https://cmake.org/download/
    Follow the instructions to build and install. I got an error about openssl, and had to run bootstrap with: ./bootstrap -- -DCMAKE_USE_OPENSSL=OFF. Alternatively, I could have installed libssl-dev...

  4. Follow the instructions on https://github.com/surge-synthesizer/stochas to build Stochas as vst2. That is, with cmake -B build -DVST2_PATH=/path/to/vstsdk2.4. You'll find the vst2 plugin libStochas.so in /build/stochas_artefacts/VST. Just copy it into ~/.vst/

DISCLAIMER: It's your own responsibility to assess the dangers, and act accordingly, associated with downloading and installing all that stuff above.

User avatar
Impostor
Established Member
Posts: 1336
Joined: Wed Aug 17, 2022 1:55 pm
Has thanked: 138 times
Been thanked: 345 times

Re: Want a Stochas VST2 version?

Post by Impostor »

artix_linux_user wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 12:30 pm

I thought that steinberg sdk for vst3 is the successor of the vst2 sdk and with this new sdk you can still build vst2 and also vst3 plugins...

According to the following announcement you can't (anymore):
https://forums.steinberg.net/t/vst-2-sd ... ued/201774

Post Reply