On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Louigi Verona <louigi.verona@gmail.com> wrote:

Guys, for non-tech guys like myself who are otherwise very interested in issues such as this, is the reason in a VST protocol or plugin or Linux implementation of protocol? Or maybe Windows hosts actually do have all those special conditions for different plugins?

they do.

if you talk to people who write wrappers for VST (e.g. FXpansion) or hosts, you will find them all dealing with the same kinds of headaches, whether on windows or OS X.

--p