VST plugins?

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redock

New Member
Helloo!

Will it ever be possible to use VST plugins inside of the OBS? It would make a lot of peeps life easier. Instead of using virtual audio cable or things like that, it would be implemented straight into the OBS.
Sorry if there was a thread like that before.
 
c3r1c3

c3r1c3

Member
Some have threatened to do it...

The biggest issues are that of licenses (GPL vs. closed source commercial), and the fact the OBS Studio uses QT.

In looking around at GPL-compliant implementations of the VST format all of them use GTK as their display engine. So we would have to port/re-write their workings from GTK to QT just to get the interface working... seems like only 1 person has tried to do it and make any headway... didn't last for very long.

Then there is the issue of where did these GPL-compliant implementations come from? If they aren't clean, then OBS would be liable for copyright infrigement if they were included/copied into OBS.

So I'm not saying it's impossible (same thing for ASIO support), but it's a bit tricky and given how much work is to be done in other areas it's not surprising that (at least at this time) ASIO and VST are not on the planned features list.
 
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redock

New Member
So maybe programming an equalizer and compressor could be an option? That's really the only two things that people use for spoken word (if they are smart :V)
 
Jack0r

Jack0r

The Helping Squad
The option to add filters to an audio source is already available. But it probably needs someone with enough knowledge about compressors or equalizers to program such filters.
 
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