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It's also important to know that AUv3 on iOS and macOS isn't just a plugin format.
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The point that not every host that supports audio units has moved to enable AUv3 support has to do with the economic realities of commercial audio development more than anything else. Apple has provided tools to allow for both v2 and v3 AU's in hosts pretty easily. It's also part of the reason you aren't seeing Apple open up sales of other plugin formats on the App Stores. That is going to be more-and-more important going forward. The biggest difference between AUv3 and version 2 is the ability to run AUv3 in app sandboxes. It's kinda similar to the way Swift libraries and frameworks are mostly bridged into the Objective-C versions and those are on top of underlying C implementations at the "Core" level of iOS and macOS frameworks. They are different formats, but many of the underlying pieces are bridged from AUv3 to v2. Version two audio units and AUv3 aren't really completely different formats. And both have been terrible managing the formats.Ĭlap, an open source plugin format, developed by Bitwig, U-he and the Reaper team should be the future, once it's released this year. The music industry can't rely in closed formats, because their business can be affected by changes forced by the two major players, Apple and Steinberg. An example is ID700, the developer is forced to offer VST3 and Audio Unit wrappers in his website.Īnd honestly, I hope that in the future, VSTs, Audio Units and AUv3s disappear in the desktop world. The question is why Apple is so restrictive, by not allowing to sell VST plugins in the App Store. I think that outside of the Apple music production apps (Garageband, Logic Pro, MainStage), and Reaper, none other host/DAW supports AUv3.Īnd the question is not why developers haven't embraced the AUv3 format, which is a dumb move until at least Ableton supports the format. The Audio Unit (version 2), and the AUv3 are completely different plugin formats.