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fese · Post by **fese** » Sun Feb 20, 2022 2:26 pm

Have been using mostly VST3 where possible in the past years because I suspected that Steinberg would pull the plug on VST2 sooner or later. Since the official announcement I try to use VST3 exclusively in new projects , which is very much possible, because no plugin is completely irreplaceable. I cannot think of one VST2 only plugin that I absolutely cannot live without.
That being said, I do hope that the Soundtoys plugin get ported in a foreseeable time

Rickskii · Post by **Rickskii** » Sun Feb 20, 2022 6:54 pm

I have moved to VST3 this weekend. Had to keep some VST2 like Fuse Audio as the presets only appear in the VST2 version of the plugin in the device view in Ableton Live. I seem to remember the presets in a lot of the PA plugins are also like this.

jamcat · Post by **jamcat** » Sun Feb 20, 2022 7:52 pm

fese wrote: Sun Feb 20, 2022 2:26 pm I cannot think of one VST2 only plugin that I absolutely cannot live without.

Virtual Sound Stage 2
Relab LX480
PG-8X
ezplayer

That’s my list that keeps me up at night.

kritikon · Post by **kritikon** » Sun Feb 20, 2022 8:32 pm

Only got back into music properly 2yrs ago, so pretty sure everything I have is VST3 already. Never even bothered installing the VST2 versions of anything. I had a few legacy things I managed to salvage from old but they were 32bit, so scrapped them anyway.

AdvancedFollower · Post by **AdvancedFollower** » Tue Feb 22, 2022 7:33 pm

jamcat wrote: Sun Feb 20, 2022 7:52 pm
fese wrote: Sun Feb 20, 2022 2:26 pm I cannot think of one VST2 only plugin that I absolutely cannot live without.

Virtual Sound Stage 2

Relab LX480

PG-8X

ezplayer

That’s my list that keeps me up at night.

For me:
Sylenth1, Parawave Rapid, Adam Szabo Viper, D16 Lush-101, All Korg plugins, Cocoa Delay, Glitchmachines, Loom II, Everything from Xils-Lab, Spire, Everything from UJAM...

Of course it's still two years until the official end-date for Cubase and probably longer still before Steinberg begin harassing other DAW developers to drop VST2, so there's plenty of time for those developers to catch up.

SHall1000 · Post by **SHall1000** » Tue Feb 22, 2022 9:57 pm

Just noticed UVI Falcon and Workstation are VST2 only, unlike their effects.

anttimaatteri · Post by **anttimaatteri** » Thu Feb 24, 2022 12:40 pm

thecontrolcentre wrote: Thu Feb 10, 2022 4:05 pm I usually install both, as on occasion the VST3 version doesn't work properly in my DAW.
PA stuff is particularly bad for this.

i second that. the plugin alliance vst3s not only have a heavy impact on cpu usage without even doing anything - a bunch of them on tracks and you get over 20% with ease...- many of the effects vst3s not showing ANY preset option in their gui, so no option to save yours accordingly too...so vst2 is still the way to go

VST2 to VST3 migration strategy.