There's also the CLAP plugin format which might have a chance, supported by Bitwig and with Avid & Reaper adding it - seems lots of people want to escape Steinb

There's also the CLAP plugin format which might have a chance, supported by Bitwig and with Avid & Reaper adding it - seems lots of people want to escape Steinberg licensing if they can. https://u-he.com/community/clap/ https://u-he.com/community/clap/ EDIT: ahh, I see Oskenso already mentioned it. I guess the u-he link is another introduction to it though.