VST 3.6 SDK available for iOS with Inter-App Audio support.

Dear VST Developers,

we are proud to announce the immediate availability of the VST 3.6 SDK. Alongside the VST 2.4, VST 3 and Audio Unit formats, the new SDK for VST 3.6 now allows developers to compile the code for iOS compatibility with Inter-App Audio support, turning the VST development kit into a platform capable of outputting four acclaimed formats conveniently from one technology source.

Other new features to the latest SDK release include enhancements to the VST 2 and Audio Unit wrappers, iOS support for the new 4.2 version of VSTGUI, Steinberg’s cross-platform C++ library for developing UI-based plug-ins, and a new validation tool for VST 3 host applications.

Here's a brief overview of the changes:

- Interfaces Changes

- Preset meta information via Steinberg, Vst, IStreamAttributes

- New Event Types: Steinberg Vst ChordEvent, Steinberg Vst ScaleEvent

- Plug-in Wrappers

- Inter-App Audio

- vst2xwrapper

- fix when changing from host between single and double precision processing

- fix setProgram and processMidiEvent for kProgramChangeStatus where the wrong idx was used for programChange Parameter

- auwrapper

- adopt to new AUPlugIn API in Mac OS X 10.7

- virtual destructor for NSDataIBStream

- New Flags/Enums

- New predefined 3D Speaker Arrangements: k81MPEG3D, k222

- Helpers Classes

- fix compilation for UNICODE_OFF enable

- Samples

- New VST 3 HostChecker Plug-in

- VSTGUI 4.2

- Update to the final 4.2 release including iOS support

- VST3PluginTestHost

- New feature: Overwrite Plug-in Name in VST3 Presets

- Licensing has changed! Please read the new license agreement.

- Xcode 5 note: To successfully build the examples for Mac OS X you need to change the SDKROOT variable in base/mac/config/settings/sdk_deployment_10_6.xcconfig to macosx10.8

You can find the download at our website :

http://www.steinberg.net/nc/en/company/developer/sdk_download_portal.html

A free registration is required to access the SDK.

Best regards,

GN