VSTGUI

VSTGUI is a user interface toolkit mainly for audio plug-ins (VST, AAX, AudioUnit, etc...) and it is designed for working well with VST 3 plug-ins and its wrappers like AU, AAX, ...

History

• First developed inhouse of Steinberg Media Technologies (around 1998) for their first VST plug-ins.
• Later added as binary libraries to the official VST SDK.
• VSTGUI is open source since May 2003.

System requirements

Supported OS:

• Microsoft Windows 10/11
• Apple macOS 10.12-12
• Apple iOS 9-15
• Linux (Preview)

Supported IDE:

• Visual Studio 2017/2019/2022
• minimum Xcode 10.1
• Qt Creator
• Visual Studio Code

Contributing

For bug reports and features requests, please use github or visit the VST Developer Forum

License

BSD style

VSTGUI LICENSE
(c) Steinberg Media Technologies, All Rights Reserved

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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    this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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    and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
  * Neither the name of the Steinberg Media Technologies nor the names of its
    contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this 
    software without specific prior written permission.

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