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--- In logic-ot@yahoogroups.com, Dennis Gunn <dennisg@a...> wrote:
> >And if Steinberg leapfrog AU by rushing out an improved 
> >"VST version 3" in a few months time, and they make it
> >nominally a superset of the published AU format, but with
> >the added advantage of being cross--platform ... and
> >include a simple shell that allows VST3s to effectively
> >run stand-alone with rewire support, under all the
> >platforms ...
> 
> And if they hurry up and put those wings on pigs.....

Well, the "stand-alone shell" part should be easy, and wouldn't need 
a new VST format -- all they'd have to do is take the VSTACK code and 
strip out the effects and multi-instrument stuff, so that it's just 
left as a minimal shell that holds one VST. 

And if they ported that empty shell to AU, they'd be able to 
say, "See, now we don't have to bother porting any of our instruments 
across to AU, because the shell can run an OSX VST inside an AU 
slot." 
Perhaps not quite as conveniently as having the host app running the 
OSX VST directly, but maybe Steinberg wouldn't lose too much sleep 
over that ...

Snag is, it might slightly undermine VSTACK sales on the other 
platforms. 
So .. perhaps another possible alternative might be for them to 
produce an OSX version of VSTACK that can run as an AU? 
That way they'd have an "AU" option for all their OSX VSTs, and 
they'd get to make a few extra sales at the same time (and get  
SystemLink-capable software installed onto more machines)