Abstract:The recent extensions of the MIDI standard, namely MIDI 2.0 and MIDI CI (Capability Inquiry), generate many opportunities to develop hardware- and software-products, that excel previous products in terms of accuracy, expressiveness and convenience. While things should become easier for the users, the complexity of supporting MIDI as a developer will be significantly increased. In this presentation we will give a brief overview over these new MIDI extensions to then discuss, how these changes are reflected in the VST3 SDK and what plugin-developers need to do to make use of these new opportunities. Fortunately, many of these new capabilities can be supported with little to no effort, due to the design principles and features of VST3 which will be discussed, also. We may also briefly touch questions regarding support of these new MIDI capabilities from the perspective of hosting VST3 plugins. The presentation will start with giving short overviews over MIDI 2.0, MIDI-CI and VST3, to then dive into each specific MIDI extension to put it into context of the related concepts in VST3. This we will start with MIDI 2.0 – Per Note Controllers & VST3 – Note Expression, then we’ll look into MIDI 2.0 – Pitch handling methods and compare it to VST3. After that several further areas like
- MIDI 2.0 - increased resolution
- MIDI 2.0 - Channel groups
- MIDI-CI - Program Lists
- MIDI-CI - Recall State
will be put in context with VST3.
The presentation will be held by two senior developers of Steinberg, that have many years of experience in supporting and contributing to VST and in supporting MIDI inside the software products of Steinberg, especially Cubase and Nuendo.
Presenters:- Arne Scheffler is working as senior developer at Steinberg for 20 years in several areas. He is the main contributor to the cross-platform UI Framework VSTGUI.
- Janne Roeper is working as senior developer for Steinberg since more than 20 years especially in the area of MIDI support in Cubase and Nuendo.
Both contribute to the VST specification since VST 2 and love making music.
