Xentronix brings us another update regarding VST, with some very good news for the BeOS world/users. Steinberg is in the process of publicly releasing the source for VSTGUI 2.3 and Xentronix, is in talks with them to port it to our favorite OS. But better than myself, i'll let Xentronix do the explanation themselves:

"After some intense correspondence with Steinberg, the company behind Cubase and the VST(i) plugin API, we have some real good news for the BeOS / Zeta community.

Steinberg will publicly release the sourcese for the VSTGUI 2.3 and higher versions later this month. We were already discussing possibilities with them to allow us to continue the BeOS portion of this library that makes it possible to have user interfaces that work on different platforms.

With this news we just received, we can officially support VST(i) plugins again on BeOS and Zeta, and we are going to maintain the library for BeOS and Zeta.

Xentronix will open a VST portal for BeOS later this month on this website to maintain a list of all available plugins for this platform and to make the VST and VSTGUI 2.3 libraries available to other developers.

We are also looking into the possibility to create a media wrapper to have VSTi instruments running as media addons, so they will work with any common BeOS MIDI application."

That's definitely good news folks. VST usage (and future availability/expansion) in BeOS could get a very nice boost from now on. Don't forget Xentronix's VST Pool.