Produce VST3

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I’m able to produce a VST plugin instrument which works well in my DAW Ardour, but the plugin appears to be a VST2.x. How can I produce au VST3 plugin ? The menu don’t have this option (Export plugin > Export as VST Synth Plugin). I’m using Cabbage 2.9 with Ubuntu 22.04.

[Info]: Scanning: /home/thierry/MusicWorkspace/Cabbage/Instr/Synth/Flute1/Flute1.so
Resetting csound ...
csound = 0x(nil)
initAllCsoundChannels (ValueTree cabbageData) ...
csound = 0x0x560c6bf73eb0
handle = 0x0x560c6bf8e7a0
initAllCsoundChannels (ValueTree cabbageData) - done
[Info]: Found Plugin: 'def1' Flute1
[Info]: Touch cachefile: set mtime = 1696624066 (2023-10-06 22:27:46), plugin mtime = 1693511539 (2023-08-31 21:52:19)
<VST2Cache version="1" binary="/home/thierry/MusicWorkspace/Cabbage/Instr/Synth/Flute1/Flute1.so" arch="x86_64">
  <VST2Info id="828794212" name="Flute1" creator="CabbageAudio" category="Instrument" version="" n_inputs="2" n_outputs="2" n_midi_inputs="1" n_midi_outputs="1" is_instrument="1" can_process_replace="1" has_editor="1">
  </VST2Info>
</VST2Cache>
[Info]: Saved VST2 plugin cache to /home/thierry/.cache/ardour7/vst/1f0869fec7851e475b21632f07fb6a81c778262e-x64.v2i

Thank you.

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VST3 export is not supported at the moment, but mostly because I don’t know any Linux hosts that don’t support VST2.4. That and the fact that VST3 is no better than VST2.4, in fact, many would argue it’s a worse standard. Why the need for it? I can add it, it’s not a big deal, but it will be a week or 2 before I’m behind a Linux machine again.

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There are a few posts on the forum that talk about VST3. I was afraid of missing something. VST2.4 is ok, it’s work well with Ardour.

Thank you very much for your quick answer.

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You’re not missing anything :slight_smile:

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i have dived into Cabbage on my Linux system. And i do not have have installed Wine to be able to run VST2 plugins.
But i can not export to VST3 as there is no option for it.

Am i correct in assuming that Linux VST3 does not need Wine at all?

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You dont need Wine to run native Linux VST. Cabbage for Linux produce Native Linux VST.

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Thanks Kzz for your reply.

So i copypasted the code of the Effect from the tutorial. This works fine and i see thw window with 3 knobs.
Then Export Plugin → Export as VST Effect plugin.
I copy over the .so to ~/vst

Fire up Reaper and the Effect is scanned.
But when i want to use it on an instrument, it turns up as a black box?

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No knobs and nothing to tweak. And it does not produce any sound when i play the VSTi…
What may be the issue?

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When you export your instrument, Cabbage saves the plugin binary AND a copy of your instrument .csd file in the specified location. If you move your plugin binary, .so in this case, you must also move the associated .csd file. I usually just export to my ~/vst folder directly.

FWIW, this will be different in Cabbage 3. All plugin assets will go in a default location.

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sorry, you beat me to it
It was a RTFM
lots of new information, must be getting old (i hope)

But it is good to know that Cabbage creates native Linux .so

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