Hi,
Does somebody knows if there is possible to write a VST Host for iPhone, allowing to load and play VSTi and VST effects??
thanks.
VST Host for iPhone?
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- KVRer
- 11 posts since 1 Aug, 2008 from London (Acid City)
Hi,
I'd imagine this would be difficult to achieve. The iPhone has an ARM processor - you'd have to cross compile - hence require source code. Additionally, the iPhone development environment being so closely related to OS X is all based around Audio Units.
HTH
Dave
I'd imagine this would be difficult to achieve. The iPhone has an ARM processor - you'd have to cross compile - hence require source code. Additionally, the iPhone development environment being so closely related to OS X is all based around Audio Units.
HTH
Dave
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- KVRist
- 277 posts since 3 Apr, 2007
The signal processing should be straightforward. The SDK doesn't support the view model for iPhone, iirc. Every 3rd party would need to provide a binary (as previously mentioned) for the iPhone before you could host it so... (depending on your project) you could probably do it if you write a vst with no ui and implement the 'ui' in your app using Apple's UI frameworks. As far as 3rd party, the VST SDK+iPhone libs are not currently compatible (though I could be looking at a slightly out of date version of the headers...) so... 3rd party UIs are doubtful given the current support, at least, from zipping through the headers. No NSView, no HIView, definitely no HWND - if you want to try to overcome that obstacle, feel free to share the results - I haven't tried, but it sounds like you could do it, if you the UI as an NSView, and hacked from there - though all your plugins would need to *know* that NSView on iPhone == UIView (or similar).
J
J