Bye bye VST2 – Page 46 – Effects Forum

Ultimately, it is in everyone’s best interest, developers and users alike, to support one of the genuinely free standards.

If developers get cold feet and start removing VST2 support from their DAWs because of legal issues resulting from their signing of the VST3 license, the long term viability of your very large and very expensive VST3 plugin collection is automatically called into question too.

Absolutely no one can legally prevent your DAW from supporting CLAP. Your DAW’s VST3 support is entirely at the mercy of SB.

Nothing’s stopping SB from transitioning to a subscription model for the VST3 SDK. If you signed the VST3 license, you’re legally on the hook to start paying the subscription six months in or you must cease distributing and supporting VST3s.

As a user, you should ask developers for CLAP support, not for them to transition to VST3.