This is why I am very hopeful for the future of CLAP. It will give all developers a common format to target and test that can be wrapped in VST2/3/AU/AAX relati

This is why I am very hopeful for the future of CLAP. It will give all developers a common format to target and test that can be wrapped in VST2/3/AU/AAX relatively easy. Since it has an ABI vs. and API interface, it is not subject to the vagaries of any one company's proprietary idea of how plugins will work. This will also make porting to new architectures easier. VST2 used to be the standard development and testing target, which was then wrapped to other formats. But all of the developer workflows built around it are now at risk because of Steinberg's asshattery. I know for a fact that this has delayed a number of plugin releases, as developers have to put time into refactoring their code around a new standard target. Thank God for u-He and Bitwig leading the way here. I've tested the Surge XT CLAP build in Bitwig and it just works.