If they do add VST support I could see them becoming a legitimate player. Without it it's definitely just a toy.

They're never gonna let you upload and run your own executable files to their infrastructure.

That + latency with MIDI devices is why every DAW-in-a-browser is just a toy.

Didn't realize this was in a browser. That tells me all I need to know.

Coming soon: Suno Desktop (Electron version). "Look ma, no browser!"

I’ve seen at least one AI-focused, Electron-based DAW already.

It's a pipe dream of course, but WebAssembly would be an ideal target for C++ VSTs for its portability and sandboxing

You can get a vst to run locally and still work with the browser.

Okay, but why would you? What's the advantage of that? VSTs are resource hogs (when you have like 10+ running at once), not DAWs.

I somehow doubt a full-blown browser connected to more than a couple of VSTs would be less of a resource hog than doing the same in a DAW. On your computer. That you own. In your house. Without like additional 50ms of latency for the data to travel to the server and back.

I just assumed all the audio data would be local even in a "browser DAW", so VST calls wouldn't go through a network.

... VSTs are executable code?

Considering when the standard was written (v2 in 1999 and v3 in 2008), what else would they be?

As horrible as it sounds, a VST is just a .dll file you're running straight from the Internet. On a "positive" note, they're backwards-compatible with like Windows Vista!

Are you genuinely surprised?

I hadn't thought about it, frankly.