Selling VST2 after October 2018: Steinberg agreement

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That's cool David,
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davidguda wrote: Mon Nov 05, 2018 10:42 am I wonder if Steinberg support is completely swamped with license requests now. I sent my signed license over a month ago now, still no response more than the initial that they received it and have the support ticket open.
I sent them a recent copy of out VST 2.4 Agreement to verify we were indeed covered.. and they responded within 24 hours and emailed back a scanned copy of our agreement they have on file which we'd mailed to them in 2006.

Rail

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So what's the score with plugins that have an 'export to VST' function like BlueCat PlugNScript? If the person doing the export doesn't have a VST license are they covered if the developer of the original plugin does?

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If you sell or distribute a plug-in which uses the VST tech. you need to include their "Licensed by..." text in your plug-in's about box and use their logos on your website and in your manual... and you'd need a license... it doesn't matter how the DLL was built.

Rail

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How hard would it be making a VST2 to VST3 DLL wrapper using JUCE?

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Wouldn't VST3 -> VST2 be more interesting? No host that supports VST3 does not support VST2 (I think).
David Guda gudaaudio.com

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I'm asking because I have several 32-bit VST2 DLLs that would benefit from a 64-bit VST3 wrapper and some insight on the efforts required would be appreciated :)
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Platinum Samples wrote: Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:42 pm If you sell or distribute a plug-in which uses the VST tech. you need to include their "Licensed by..." text in your plug-in's about box and use their logos on your website and in your manual... and you'd need a license... it doesn't matter how the DLL was built.

Rail
OK so basically no one can distribute new VST plugins made with PlugNScript now then (unless they already had a VST developer license)?

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Technically, you couldn't ever distribute a VST without a signed agreement. In that sense, nothing has changed.

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Dozius wrote: Sun Nov 11, 2018 3:04 pm Technically, you couldn't ever distribute a VST without a signed agreement. In that sense, nothing has changed.
Yeah but what has changed is you can't get that signed agreement anymore.

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Dozius wrote: Sun Nov 11, 2018 3:04 pm Technically, you couldn't ever distribute a VST without a signed agreement. In that sense, nothing has changed.
Wasn't it that before this change you just had to agree to the license terms by clicking a tickbox on the Steinberg site and no actual 'signed' agreement was necessary?
I may remember wrongly though.

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No_Use wrote: Sun Nov 11, 2018 3:32 pm
Dozius wrote: Sun Nov 11, 2018 3:04 pm Technically, you couldn't ever distribute a VST without a signed agreement. In that sense, nothing has changed.
Wasn't it that before this change you just had to agree to the license terms by clicking a tickbox on the Steinberg site and no actual 'signed' agreement was necessary?
I may remember wrongly though.
I think that was very long time ago. Better getting a signed agreement to be on the safe side though :)

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Unlike being an Apple or Microsoft developer, it doesn't cost anything!

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davidguda wrote: Wed Nov 07, 2018 12:21 pm After over a month wait I finally got my license back, signed and ready! This is a good day! :)
Sorry, did you receive it by e-mail or snail mail? I've been waiting almost 2 months and still got no license. I even asked 2 times what's going on but nobody answered. Are they so busy?

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e-mail.
I sent a couple of weeks later as snail mail as well (with both vst3 and vst2 license signed), still no response from that one.
So I got my VST2 license but not yet VST3.
I guess they are less picky with VST3 since they obviously want to promote that over VST2.
David Guda gudaaudio.com

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