Important Poll: VST - Yes or No?

[Service-Team]

The current version of Silverjuke (1.22 or older) support VST modules; we think, they're mostly used for the integration of an equalizer in Silverjuke.

For the next version of Silverjuke, we are about to redesign the internal "soundprocessing", which will result in a better format- and hardware-support. Esp. the latter results in an improved sound quality eg. when playing track of different samplerates. Moreover, it is also very likely that we integrate our own equalizer.

EDIT: We've found a solution and the VST-Interface stays as it is.

Our question: Do you use VST modules in Silverjuke?

As always, any comments are very welcome!

And finally, if you do not know what we are talking about here, please just answer with "What's the point?"

Thanks for reading,
Your Silverjuke Team

[Dolce24]

I think it's a very good idea to create your own build in equalizer..

[dj_ek]

I'm not exactly sure what VST provides support for, what types of features/benefits would we be losing without it? Is it just a compatibility issue?

[Service-Team]

dj_ek wrote:
> I'm not exactly sure what VST provides support
> for, what types of features/benefits would we be
> losing without it? Is it just a compatibility
> issue?

VST is an abbreviation and stands for "Virtual Studio Technology" (or so) and provides two different major types of plugin interfaces: Instruments and Effects. These plugins can be used in applications supporting the VST interface (so called "VST hosts") then. Currently, Silverjuke is such a VST host, however, only the usage of the Effect plugins make sense and is supported. The most common effect type that is used together with Silverjuke is an Equalizer (that's what we think), so we would like to get rid of the VST support of Silverjuke - as it makes some troubles, see above - and provide our own equalizer instead. An overview about some supported modules can be found in the forum and further information about VST in common at .