i had cubase 4 and had a chance to use the VST3's, i didn't really find anything special about them, i read a comment from a very well established software devloper and to be honest i have to agree with him, it really sums up my opinion of steinbergs approach to development
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Have you any plans at all for VST3 plugins?"
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I do not want to support bad choices of others when there is no need to support them (VST2.4 is fully supported by Steinberg hosts, and is not planned for exclusion from what I've read on their forums). Well, if market asks I'll have to obey, but not right now. "Market" means hosts that support only VST3.
P.S. Of course, I'm sorry for not being 'politically correct'. Simply put, Steinberg's policy toward VST developers is also incorrect, so we are pretty much quits."
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It would seem that the development community has been falling all over themselves to stay *off* the VST3 bandwagon of late."
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BTW, as was shown by many developers, extending VST2.4 to support all "bells and whistles" of VST3 (namely, side-chaining and sample-accurate automation) is a matter of making minor enhancements. Such thing as user interface/audio code detachment could have been implemented on top of VST2.4 as well... Well, as I've replied, throwing VST2.4 away was a bad choice in my opinion. There's a "rule of thumb" in software engineering: do not fix a thing that isn't broken, otherwise you'll end up collecting bugs, instabilities and unforeseen system complications. VST is more than just Steinberg's pet toy today, thousands of musicians and sound engineers rely on its stability, across many audio host applications."
so what do you guys think?