Question

CLAP is an open source, cross-platform standard with advanced features, such as polyphonic modulation. Early support for it has been given by u-he and Bitwig.It would be excellent to see this plugin format supported in Studio One, both for S1 users and to support the plugin development community.

GitHub page here: https://github.com/free-audio/clap

Answer 1

Things are beginning to accelerate regarding CLAP. Bitwig has support (beta). U-He, Audiothing and TAL have beta versions of some of their plugins out.

Answer 2

It should be noted that PreSonus is already listed as one of the developers who are evaluating this new plug-in format.

Reference: https://u-he.com/community/clap/ - scroll down to the bottom for the developer list.

Answer 3

Dang! Polyphonic modulation?? This CLAP thing looks very good. For anyone wondering, here is an official overview video. Very impressive. Being an open standard, it has a chance of taking off, as long as enough DAW and plugin developers decide to support it. Obviously Steinberg and Apple, respectively, will not cooperate, at least not initially. Pro Tools? Dunno. I see no point in all these standards that fulfill the same task to varying degrees. Would be better to have one to rule them all.

I'm guessing supporting some of these features will require effort on both sides, the DAW and the plugin developers. Maybe Steinberg and Apple will updated their respective VST and AU standards to copy some of the features of CLAP. Either way, a bit of competitive innovation always means the users win.

Answer 4

A very needed improvement over current plug-in formats

Answer 5

I think the biggest feature is that it has better multithread support. Most modern computers are multicore and we have to rely on workarounds like audiogridder to utilize our idle processor cores.

Clap seems to bring a solution to this problem and I would really want to take advantage of this.

Answer 6

This is simply a must-have. Better sooner than later! Be the first major DAW to support it!

Answer 7

I've already found FREE plug-ins not available in VST that works fine under CLAP inside Bitwig.
Luca from Audiority announced this on KVR. That means VST2 should be terminated on all new DAW developments, that may include Studio One V7. That means most of my plugins should be wasted on my next S1 update. Really upsetting. Please, read this thread in KVR about the Steinberg statements.

Hi guys,

looks like Steinberg terminated all previous agreements that will allow us developers to build VST2 plugins. The new agreement is here: https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vst3s ... eement.pdf

and a Dev forum thread we came across: viewtopic.php?t=508845&start=420

I don't know how many of you is still using VST2 as a format but, at this point, we will be forced to not include this format with the next updates and new products.

Luca

Answer 8

maybe this is coming soon? Bitwig just announced they and PreSonus came up with an open DAW file format, DAWproject.

https://www.bitwig.com/stories/bitwig-and-presonus-are-making-it-easy-to-share-projects-between-programs-271/

Here's to hoping.

Answer 9

All FabFilter products now support CLAP!

Answer 10

Now that Steinberg has announced the END of VST2 licenses, may be the moment to evaluate the chance to lose compatibility with hundreds of VST2 plugins that were never ported to the VST3 PROTOCOL. Shame.