Hey! I'm trying to get into Deving VSTs and VSTis in C++, and I don't have a clue as to where to get the latest greatest tutorials. I've seen the Cubase SDK but it seems kind of ancient.

Any ideas for how to get into Modern VST Development?

What kind of GUI options exist?

This is my first post, so thanks in advance for putting up with my newbosity!

Agree i am also trying to get into developing my own vst's in c# but I can't find any good source of information.

Have a look at the forums about the frameworks that are available. JUCE is one. I used IPlug for my plug-in. The forum for IPlug is here...
http://forum.cockos.com/forumdisplay.php?f=32

For C# do a search for VST .NET

For GUI I needed alot of text input and a tabbed window control, and was not confident about rolling my own. I used wxWidgets running in a separate thread, which uses native controls with a cross-platform wrapper (in theory it should be an easy port to Mac but I haven't done it yet). The wxWidgets event handling is really good.

However, if I were doing it again with the knowledge I have now I would probably roll my own. Many plug-ins are just a single window with mouse only input, so it just boils down to painting bitmaps with some event handling behind it.

so MandelDrum is Wxwigets on top of IPlug? interesting!

Thx mandeldrum they got some pretty good stuff on vst.net!

Thanks guys! This is already some great help. Massive forum win.

Questions on GUIs:

Anyone know if you could use Qt tools for VST GUIs? I've heard they rock for platform independence.

Take a look at http://matt.eifelle.com/?s=qt