It should work as a reasonably accurate documentation of behavior. Personally, I am not much affected going forward, since I would want to develop future plugins in Rust anyway, probably using the rust-vst crate, which is not based on the official SDK and is thus presumably not covered by Steinberg's copyright. The consequences of loosing such a trial is of course catastrophic for the individual which is why they do this. By enforcing their redistribution clause this way, and at the same time removing VST2 from their SDK distribution which they allegedly plan to do by October , they are effectively making it difficult to develop open source VST2 plugins. It has to be tried in a court that rules in their favor for them to be legally right. From an end user perspective it's not really going to be a problem. 
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It has to be tried in a court that rules in their favor for them to be legally right.
This SDK can be freely sck from Steinberg's websitebut the accompanying license prohibits redistribution. They can send all the letters they want to the clean room guys, it doesn't mean they're right. It should work as a reasonably accurate documentation of behavior. From an end user perspective it's not really going to be a problem.
VST2 is history - what will Native Instruments do and when?
I have zero interest in upgrading my perfectly well working Ableton Live DAW to some supposed newer and larger and more bloated version, and I have zero interest in spending my little free time doing a code migration to useless crap I don't want. They use fear as a weapon against open source. However, it's a bit of a PITA for us. Nevertheless, it has been routinely included in many repositories for VST plugins and hosts and many that are not specifically for a plugin or host but just happens to contain one in some subcomponent.
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You cannot really legally forbid cleanroom reverse-engineering of a protocol. The consequences of loosing such a trial is of course catastrophic for the individual which is why they do this.
It seems srk me that they are shooting themselves in the foot and I'll consider alternatives to Steinberg in case I need to code some VSTi. Will probably push people to use middleware instead of targeting this kind of SDK. Also, for a clean-room design to actually hold up in court, it's probably necessary to have a lawyer involved in the reverse engineering process, to make sure everything is done and documented properly enough to count as proof.
Personally, I am not much affected going forward, since I would want to develop future plugins in Rust anyway, vstt2 using the rust-vst crate, which is not based on the official SDK and is thus presumably not covered by Steinberg's copyright.
Many plugins will never see a re-write. So I was thinking that this information could be relevant to some people in here, and it could also be interesting to hear what the Pouet community has to say about the situation.
It's a bunch of source files, so how do you reverse-engineer something like that? Those "sample accurate and resizeable UI, multiple outputs" have been done inside vst2 but are not really supported by vst2 itself am Vs2 right?
Most audio developers make close to no edk, and taking legal actions against open source stuff because of reasons like this will not do anything good for anyone. We can't distribute it so you'll end up trying to download it from some weird ass torrent site. Move to BSD make some dumbass "interface" for "plugins". I understand the desire to push developers to a newer standard, but the world of audio moves at a glacial pace and is generally full of abandonware. DAWs will most likely continue to support it for ages and when it doesn't someone will build an emulator plugin like jBridge.
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They could just obsolete it, and let time to its thing. How about taking the source code of an existing implementation found on the internet that has everything except bla-bla-bla. By the time we ship it you'll have a few months to download the SDK needed before they rip it offline.
It's not that simple. Steinberg creating a bit of pressure vsy2 a good thing for moving the whole industry forward. I could go on, but you probably get the idea.
We're nearing release phase for wavesabre which is built on vst2 presently. It is my impression that VST2 is still the most popular audio plugin format, both in general vat2 within the demoscene. Try to infer the design principles behind gst2 By enforcing their redistribution clause this way, and at the same time removing VST2 from their SDK distribution which they allegedly plan to do by Octoberthey are effectively making it difficult to develop open source VST2 plugins.
I think it would be better to be able to extend something that's VST2 compatible, open source, and Steinberg-free. It's sad to read
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