COSCUP 2025

When we are on track-making work, we run into various troubles due to designs and limitations on current audio plugins ecosystem and DAWs. We cannot simply move our music projects to another computer, even if we have valid licenses of the plugins. Data is not portable across plugin formats. Plugin scanning is slow on new computers or common PCs in studio.

Can't we do any better? Do we really have to hate new plugin formats in favor of legacy formats that cannot bring better experience? Let's see. In this session, we bring up current problems, compare existing plugin formats and related technology, and discuss how we can improve the situation.

Keywords: DAWs, plugin formats (VST3, AU, LV2, CLAP, etc.), JUCE (and other libraries), MIDI 1.0 / 2.0, plugin wrappers, backward compatibility