Plug-in audio avisynth, plug-in audio directX, plug-in audio VST, plug-in audio RTAS?

[guada 2]

Hello, :)

I would like to know the difference between these plug-ins?

NOTE: Purely technical information.

:thanks:

[hitbit]

VST is the standard created by Steinberg for their midi-sequencer/virtual-recording-studio line of products (Cubase, Nuendo etc). Plug-ins are usually audio filters or audio generators (commonly called instruments).

DirectX is the infamous multimedia system created by Microsoft for Windows. Subcomponents are DirectShow, a modular system for capturing/encoding/decoding/filtering/showing audio and/or video, Direct3D, a 3d graphic system used mainly for games, DirectMusic, for playing soft-synthesized music, etc etc.

Tools exists that allows to use a DirectX plugin in a VST environment, or viceversa; otherwise the two formats are incompatible.
A great collection of plugins, free or commercial, can be found here:
http://www.kvraudio.com/

[guada 2]

hitbit,

Thank you very much for these explanations. :)

Bye.