Miscellaneous
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Some Copyrights/Trademarks referred to in the VST 3 SDK
- AAX by Avid Technology, Inc.
- Apple and macOS are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. registered in the U.S. and other countries.
- ASIO is a trademark and software of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH.
- AU and AUv3 by Apple Inc.
- Dolby™ is a registered trademark of Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
- GITHUB is exclusive trademark registered in the United States by GitHub, Inc.
- JUCE library - Copyright (c) 2022 - ROLI Ltd.
- Microsoft, Windows are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
- Pro Tools is a trademark or registered trademark of Avid Technology, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries.
- VST, Dorico, Cubase, Nuendo, VST Live and WaveLab are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, registered in Europe and other countries.
- Other company names, product names and logos are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Glossary
External Glossary: AES - PAR - Pro Audio Reference: http://www.aes.org/par/
| Abbr. | Meaning | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| AAX | Avid Audio Extension | https://www.avid.com/alliance-partner-program/aax-connectivity-toolkit |
| ADC | Audio Developer Conference | https://juce.com/adc |
| AES | Audio Engineering Society | https://www.aes.org |
| AMBI | Ambisonics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambisonics |
| ASIO | Audio Stream Input/Output | ASIO™ is a protocol for communication between a software application and a computer's sound card (trademark of Steinberg) |
| AU | Audio Unit | https://developer.apple.com/documentation/audiounit |
| COM | Component Object Model | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model |
| DAFX | Digital Audio Effects | https://dafx.org |
| DAW | Digital Audio Workstation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_audio_workstation |
| DLL | Dynamic-Link Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic-link_library |
| DSP | Digital Signal Processing | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signal_processing |
| e.g. | exempli gratia | for example |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions | VST 3 Frequently Asked Questions |
| FFT | Fast Fourier Transformation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Fourier_transform |
| GPL | General Public License | https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html |
| ICASSP | International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Conference_on_Acoustics,_Speech,_and_Signal_Processing |
| ISMIR | International Society for Music Information Retrieval | https://ismir.net |
| JSON5 | JavaScript Object Notation | https://www.json.org |
| LFE | Low Frequency Effects | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-frequency_effects |
| MIDI | Musical Instrument Digital Interface | https://www.midi.org |
| MPE | MIDI Polyphonic Expression | https://www.midi.org |
| SDK | Software Development Kit | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit |
| STL | Standard Library Containers | https://www.cplusplus.com/reference/stl/ |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL |
| UTF-16 | Unicode Transformation Format 16bit | String representation used by VST 3 for exchanging with the host. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16 |
| VST | Virtual Studio Technology™ | A trademark of Steinberg for their interface standard for integrating software plug-ins with DAWs. |
| VST-MA | Virtual Studio Technology - Module Architecture | This is the base architecture for VST 3 |
| VSTGUI | Virtual Studio Technology - Graphical User Interface | https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vstgui |
| Vtable | Virtual method table | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_method_table |
| WYSIWYG | What You See Is What You Get |