I'm happy to announce the final release of [vstplugin~] v0.5.0 - a Pd external to load VST plugins on Windows, macOS and Linux!

Binaries are available on Deken or can be downloaded here: https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/-/releases

If possible, please report any issues at https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/issues or leave a comment here.

Big thanks to all my beta testers!

Change log overview:

• support for multiple input/output busses (VST3 only)

• [offline( method for better offline processing support

• Linux: allow to run 32-bit and 64-bit Windows plugins (via Wine)

• improve UI handling on all platforms

• [size( method to resize plugin UI (if supported)

• Linux: fix VST3 editor

• fix some race conditions (= better stability)

• fix broken transport methods for multi-threading

• fix bugs in VST3 preset reading/writing

• new -x (= exlude path) and -t (= timeout) flags for [search( method

See the release page for the full change log.

Have fun!

Christof