CLAP Plugin Porting

If you haven’t heard about it yet, CLAP (CLever Audio Plug-in API) is a new open standard for audio plugins and hosts announced last week by Bitwig and U-he. Check the announcement here.

So, why do we need yet another plugin format? With the current major plugin formats, developers need to sign contracts with unilateral clauses for cancellation, or restrictive NDAs. Proprietary formats are rarely updated taking into account feedback from developers. Proprietary formats can be discontinued without notice.
CLAP, instead, is open source, liberally licensed, modern, and, on top of that, has some really cool features not available to other formats…

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