Steinberg VST 3.6.7 SDK Released (build 352) - Linux support and new licensing model

8th March 2017

Steinberg Media Technologies has released VST SDK 3.6.7 (build 352). This maintenance release is mainly a preview version for Linux support.

A brief overview of changes:

Preview Linux support.
Licensing has changed. Please read the new VST 3 License.
Use cmake as project generator.
This is the last version of the SDK supporting C++98, future versions will used C++11.
The VST 3 part of this SDK is now available on GitHub at https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vst3sdk
Samples:
- New VST 3 Host implementation example:
  - New HostEditor application: Cross-platform (Win/macOS/Linux) standalone which opens the UI of a VST3 Plug-in.
- Updated validator application to support Linux.
- AGain Plug-in updated:
  - It uses VSTGUI 4 instead of VSTGUI 3.
  - It supports 64-bit processing (template based).
- All VSTGUI 4 based samples support HiDPI on Windows now.
- Fix Program Change persistence in mda Plug-ins example.
- Removed Xcode and Visual Studio projects, please use cmake now.
- On Windows we link VST3 Plug-ins with the MultiThreaded DLL runtime libraries (it will use Universal C Runtime Libraries, for older Windows version than Win 8.1 you may have to install these libraries from: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2999226).
VSTGUI 3.x is no longer supported (removed from the SDK). You can still download it from github: https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vstgui
Plug-in Wrappers:
- auwrapper:
  - Fix AU Wrapper MIDI Program Change issue (data1 instead of data2).
- vst2xwrapper:
  - Fix resize issue on macOS.
  - Fix mapping between VST3 ParamID and VST2 paramID when bypass parameter is used.