Feature Request: AAX Support for Pro Tools users

[mbparker]

The only option folks like me have us to use this library (not sure it there's another) to wrap a CLAP plugin to VST3, then use a VST3 wrapper to get to AAX.

Obviously this is undesirable for several reasons.

[defiantnerd]

I am happy to tell you that I finished the AAX part of clap-wrapper just last week. It is in the next branch. Please check it out.

[baconpaul]

Oh wonderful and yes definitely solves the “let’s recruit testers” problem!

If you need any help please do ask

[mbparker]

That's great to hear. Unfortunately, I do not have access to the AAX SDK, so I wouldn't be able to build that target.

[baconpaul]

The aax sdk is available under gpl3 now.

But also: to deploy into pro tools you need an aax developer account so you can do their custom signing. It is not an open platform.

[mbparker]

The aax sdk is available under gpl3 now.

But also: to deploy into pro tools you need an aax developer account so you can do their custom signing. It is not an open platform.

Exactly, which is why I can't do anything with the AAX version of this plugin unless pre-compiled and signed versions will be made available. Are there plans for that, or will it be up to the consumer of this plugin?

[mbparker]

Actually, it looks like getting a developer account for AAX plugins is free. I already have Pro-Tools and and two iLoks. So I guess it wouldn't be that big of a lift to build an AAX target and sign it.

I was avoiding it because I always thought there was a big price tag attached to it.

[baconpaul]

We are really positioning the wrapper so far as a developer tool not as an end user tool. Someone could use it to build a kushview-style clap re-hoster but i dont think any of us have plans to get aax certs and sign with them for general distribution.

[jasper-247]

Why is a blockchain layer necessary here instead of a purely off-chain privacy solution?

[baconpaul]

i think you posted that on the wrong issue @jasper-247 - nothing here has anything to do with blockchain.

[defiantnerd]

That's surely just a bot, shall we just delete that?

[baconpaul]

Yes delete and block