Hosts & Applications (Sequencers, DAWs, Audio Editors, etc.) • Re: Its over for Bitwig--CUBASE WON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can you name a specific advantage to CLAP other than it's not VST3?
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I have never seen anyone who is into CLAP give a logical reason for being gung ho about it

Some of them are technical and some are ideological.
I'm no CLAP evangelist and am not looking to use it myself, but if you read these two short docs it should give you pointers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLever_Audio_Plug-in
https://u-he.com/community/clap/

I have read those, and ideologies are not logical but are personal

As for technical again what is the advantage in a DAW environment? No one ever answers that question, they just want to claim CLAP is somehow better

As for ideologies they claim CLAP is open sourced yet it's created by two very much Commercial software companies u-he and Bitwig

Owners of Steinberg/Cubase and frankly u-he Bitwig are the last people who should complain about non open sourced software or have any ideological issues with VST3

Get back to me when Diva and Bitwig are free and open sourced

Having an open source standard is an advantage even if the plugins and hosts themselves are closed source. Lots of developers have complained that VST3 is needlessly difficult to develop for, which results in developers spending more time just getting their plugins to work well instead of implementing new features. Of course as long as people still need VST3 plugins this will continue to be an issue.

For me, the biggest are concrete advantages in a DAW environment are:

Collaborative multicore: With VST3, the DAW has no control over how many threads a plugin allocates or how much of the CPU it uses, which can cause plugins to starve the DAW itself or other plugins of processing power. So to stay safe and avoid problems, most VST3 plugins are still single threaded. This is a big reason why DAWs are still so bad at utilizing modern CPUs with more than 8 cores. CLAP allows the host to manage CPU usage of the plugins and coordinate threading, making multi-threaded plugins much more viable.

Non-destructive parameter automation: This allows you to automate individual parameters on a synth and then have them go back to the original value automatically. For example if you automate a filter sweep, the filter will not just stay at 100% open when the automation ends. You no longer have to meticulously set your last automation point to the exact same value as the preset (and remember to change it if you modify the preset).

Statistics: Posted by AdvancedFollower — Thu Nov 07, 2024 10:49 am

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