Implementing VST Extensions

If you have your JUCE fork repo, you can cherry-pick critical fixes or improvements needed for your product.
That’s the true power of JUCE being git and open-sourced on that scale.

Sounds like a plan then. We would like to play with NKS integration soon, so these callbacks are kinda important :wink:

Thanks.

Any chance to get a similar thing for VST3, as described in my above post?

edit : I dunno if it would be too dirty to change the signature of

virtual void handleVstHostCallbackAvailable (std::function<VstHostCallbackType>&& callback)

to

virtual void handleVstHostCallbackAvailable (std::function<VstHostCallbackType>&& callback, void* vst3hostcontext)

?

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Yes, that’s on the to-do list.

A cleaner way is making a new interface, VST3CallbackHandler.

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My only wonder is what you’d get and how much useful would that be for the Steinberg COM flow?
My example above is using pretty simple gain reduction example.

If I get a VST3CallbackHandler , how do I define additional DECLARE_CLASS_IID ?

I’ve not yet thought about the best way of achieving that - I added the VST2 callback because it was an easy modification.

Exposing the FUnknown* hostContext pointer should be similarly easy, but obviously that doesn’t appear to help your use case.

If I want to send a custom message (“handshake”) to a host from my VST3 plug-in and wait for a specific response with which I can decide if I will instantiate the plug-in or not, at which point should I do it and how?

I am stuck inside:

  • juce_VST3_Wrapper/JuceVST3EditController class
  • juce_VST3PluginFormat/VST3HostContext struct

I know that I have to create a custom Steinberg::FUnknown interface class which will specify the DECLARE_CLASS_IID in order to create a query to the host and that I have to use the hostContext pointer to access the host. But, how do I combine all these and where? It seems very complicated to me.

Hi, this forum post is a useful reference for adding VST3 extensions…

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