[PD-announce] [vstplugin~] v0.2 test release

[Christof Ressi]

Hi, I'm happy to share a test release of [vstplugin~] v0.2. Binaries are available on Deken. The source code is here: https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/-/releases

Note that you can also load LV2 plugins with lv2vst: https://github.com/x42/lv2vst. I've tested this on Debian and generally it works fine. The VST GUI doesn't work yet but I'll fix this till the final release.

Have fun!

Christof

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Changelog:

new features:

* VST2 shell plugin support (e.g. "Waves")
* (experimental) VST3 support including sample accurate automation and auxiliary inputs/outputs for side-chaining
* soft-bypass
* faster search/probe (parallel)
* cache search/probe results in a file to speed up subsequent searches
* [param_set( and [param_get( now also accept parameter names instead of indices (whitespace is bashed to underscores).

changes:

* switched whole project to CMake
* removed 'vstsearch' object because of the new cache file system.

internal changes:

* use .ini like syntax for plugin info
* hard-bypass prefers the plugin's bypass method
* single event loop shared by all plugins
* probably many more...