VST plugins
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[edit] VST Introduction
VST is an acronym for Virtual Studio Technology.
VSTs are software "plug-ins" that are generally used by software Digital Audio Workstations (or DAWs) in order to perform operations on audio data. They come in two flavors, instruments (or "VSTi") and effects (simply "VST").(See the Wikipedia article here.)
Most popular and professional audio applications support VSTs in some way, and the way in which audio is transformed or generated by VSTs is essentially unlimited so long as the software conforms to the VST specification.
Additionally, many DAWs have support for multiple technologies, depending on platform (Mac, Linux, Windows) and DAW version.
For point of contrast, Apple maintains its own competing Audio Unit specification. Other technologies include Microsoft DirectX ("DX" effects or "DXi" for instruments, largely a deprecated technology for music-making), RTAS for Pro Tools DAWs, and DSSI for Linux platforms.
[edit] Ambisonics VSTs
(quick and dirty list - please expand)
- B2X plug-in suite - For Mac OS X only, universal binaries (PPC & Intel), also in Audio Unit. Assortment of first, second and fifth order spatial resolution encoders (panners), transcoders, processors and decoders.
- Gerzonic Panorama - For panning mono sources (mono-to-B-Format encoder)
- [Utilities][3rd order VSTs] York VST suite - Including BPan3, for panning stereo sources (stereo-to-B-Format encoder)
- Swiss Center for Computer Music - Ambisonics VST resources
- Visual Virtual Microphone (VVMic) - For decoding/monitoring B-Format sources
- Bformat2Binaural is a VST (for PCs) by Charles Gregory that converts from B-format to binaural (hosted by Aristotel Digenis)
- 3AmbiDecAD by Aristotel Digenis is a more recent version of the 3rd-order decoder available from York.
- Bruce Wiggins's 'WAD' decoders are available in VST format for the PC.
- Bruce Wiggins's '1st order Ambisonic reverb' (based on Freeverb)
(others... I know there are more)
