Jamba is currently working on the following platforms:
Visual Studio 16 2019
)Other requirements:
cmake
executable must be in your PATH
)New since 5.1.2, Jamba supports building universal plugins on macOS with XCode and Apple Silicon chipset!
On macOS, it is likely possible to use an earlier version (of the OS and Xcode) but it has not been tested
Linux is currently not supported (could be added if there is demand).
Jamba can automatically download the SDK for you but it is strongly recommended to install the SDK as the cloned repository is quite large (over 100MB) and would have to be downloaded again if you delete the build folder.
You can clone the SDK from Github
git clone --recursive https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vst3sdk.git
cd vst3sdk
git checkout 79750cb3e56f3988f33bc178884962cc3f4c3eb9
Jamba currently uses 3.7.1 which corresponds to the tag v3.7.1_build_50
(79750cb3e56f3988f33bc178884962cc3f4c3eb9
commit hash).
The Steinberg website only lets you download the “latest” version so make sure you use the link in the table below.
Jamba | VST | VST SDK Git Hash | VST SDK Download |
---|---|---|---|
5.1.0+ | 3.7.1 | 79750cb3e56f3988f33bc178884962cc3f4c3eb9 |
vst-sdk_3.7.1_build-50_2020-11-17.zip |
5.0.0 | 3.7.0 | 3e651943d4747f8af43d10b21227020bc8b7f438 |
vst-sdk_3.7.0_build-116_2020-07-31.zip |
1.0.0 - 4.5.0 | 3.6.9 | 985d945639f5a2f7498d9483e8b5e6d921bcb580 |
vstsdk369_01_03_2018_build_132.zip |
Jamba lets you configure the location of the SDK via the VST3_SDK_ROOT
CMake cache variable which can be set via any means available to CMake or set via the --vst3
option when running the configure.py
script. If you do not want to have to worry about it you can also install it (or create a link) to a default location:
/Users/Shared/Steinberg/VST_SDK.3.7.1
for macOSC:\Users\Public\Documents\Steinberg\VST_SDK.3.7.1
for windows./Users/Shared/Steinberg/VST_SDK.3.7.1
(resp. C:\Users\Public\Documents\Steinberg\VST_SDK.3.7.1
) or the path provided via --vst3
, corresponds to the folder called VST3_SDK
in the zip file.If you want to wrap your VST3 plugin into a VST2 plugin you will need the VST2 SDK. Unfortunately Steinberg is no longer distributing it officially and you need to get access to it. Once you get access to it, Jamba lets you configure the location of the SDK via the VST2_SDK_ROOT
CMake cache variable which can be set via any means available to CMake or set via the --vst2
option when running the configure.py
script.
If you download an old version of the VST3 SDK (like 3.6.9 (shasum 256 => 7c6c2a5f0bcbf8a7a0d6a42b782f0d3c00ec8eafa4226bbf2f5554e8cd764964
)) it contains the VST2 SDK at the root and this is what you need to copy or link to.
If you donwload the latest VST3 SDK zip file it does contain a VST2_SDK
folder at the root but it is an incomplete VST2 SDK distribution. Only older versions of the VST3 SDK (like 3.6.9) contains a valid VST2 SDK distribution.