CC messages for VST3

[stephenk]

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Generating MIDI messages within a VST plugin and passing them to the host

My 2 cents: If the messages are not timing-sensitive, why not go directly to the MIDI device rather than via the host? Unless you are allowing users to automate parameters in the host which then get sent out as NRPN messages…

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Add support for sending Midi CCs out of VST3 plugins

Upon entering the rabbit hole of investigating why I cannot generate any MIDI Controller Messages (or Pitch Bend for that matter) in my VST3 MIDI Plugin and have it show up at the output, yet it works perfectly fine in my AU version of the same thing, I have discovered that apparently passing MIDI CCs to the output of a VST3 was removed by Steinberg in the initial spec, but has been added back in as of December 2018. That’s almost a year ago. Searching this forum, I have come up with multiple t…