VST Live 3.0.50 and 2.2.130 Available Now

Hi everyone,

We’re pleased to announce that VST Live 3.0.50 and VST Live 2.2.130 are now available!

This release brings a wide range of bug fixes, stability improvements, and workflow enhancements across many areas of VST Live.

You can download the latest versions here:

As always, both versions are also available through the Steinberg Download Assistant.

Enjoy the new releases!
Michael

PS: For everyone who followed the Pre-Releases: Nothing has been added to 3.0.50. Only the version number has changed.

Oh, was happy for a moment, my METRO on/off state bugfix is included maybe for todays gig :upside_down_face:
No probl … will survive

2.2.130 Everything is as usual, a bug in place, a version for the sake of a version…

I tried it and the results are obvious. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

All of this is related to that thread, plus everything was described in a private message about what and how this bug occurs. Volume bump on part transition - #61 by sergeantt67

And after that you write to me in private messages not quite sure what you mean…will check again with v2. And what’s so unclear about that? When I turn on MP, sound appears on the group channel, even though there’s no send signal! But it still appears there! Where is it coming from? Is that how it works for you?

Thanks, but you should have checked it before releasing the version, not after… Yes, you don’t have to check it at all… We’ve arrived, that’s enough.:rofl:

PS. As of today, we don’t have a single official working version and that’s a fact!

The things I do with VST Live work for me so far and I am glad to have it.

Tried everything but cannot reproduce with 2.2.130 either. MP has nothing to do with it so no idea how you make it happen as in your video.

If you want us to help, you should try to narrow as we did:

a) insert an oscillator/generator/noise generator plugin into the Stack, preferably instead of the DustyTube. Can you still reproduce? Does the signal get to Song Group in Part 1 still?

b) remove all other plugins. Some plugins do create internal connections to other instances.

I didn’t even want to answer, but it’s a matter of principle. I don’t like it when people make a fool out of me.
I don’t know how you can’t reproduce this. I’ve explained it many times before, including in private messages.
I’ll show you for the last time! Watch the video!

  1. Create a completely new project in a freshly installed VST Live 2.2.130, and on a clean, freshly installed Windows 11 with all the latest updates!
  2. Create an empty audio track; it has no inputs or outputs. We only need it to set the start of the second part on the line.
  3. Create the second part and set it to switch at measure 5.
  4. Go to Stacks and create one for each part, assign them an input (right now, just a guitar cord, and I’ll be the generator by touching the plug).
  5. Switch to the mixer, create a group sound, and send only the second part to this group sound.
  6. Multiprocessor is enabled in the settings! Save and close the program.
  7. As you can see from the video, there isn’t a single VST! !!! You all really love blaming them for all your problems!
  8. Open the saved project, and what do we hear? And we see sound appearing on the group channel from somewhere! Where is it coming from?? There aren’t a single VST, let alone any other VST, but none at all! And there’s not even a send from Stack 1 to the group channel!
  9. Switch between parts and, lo and behold! There’s no sound on the first part’s group channel anymore!
  10. Go to Settings, turn off multiprocessing, and close the project.
  11. Everything opens normally; there are no extraneous sounds in the mixer.
  12. Now let’s just turn on multiprocessing, which supposedly doesn’t affect anything. And there’s no bug—it’s just made it all up!
  13. Admire how it doesn’t affect anything! Out of nowhere, without sending the stack of the first batch, sound still appeared on the group channel!

Nonsense, we just try to narrow, as we can’t reproduce, that obvious. And why should we “blame” in the first place?

And that’s why you should keep looking for anything that explains why we still cannot reproduce your problem, not even with the exact steps you provided. At no stage (and we tried multiple variations of your procedure) does Part 1 “bleed” into the Group Channel.

If there are no plugins, good, that does exclude those, so we know what we can exclude, that’s what narrowing is all about.

Can you test on another system? Other hardware/audio interface? Narrowing is your only chance to find this. We cannot reproduce it, no matter what.

Finally, all of your very offensive language appears to indicate that we deliberately “make a fool out of you” and other nonsense like that. Please stop this. If we were that mean, we had stopped trying to help you a long time ago, because this really takes a lot of time. For your benefit, you have been helpful before, thanks for that. There is nothing we’d rather do but tell you “do this and that and your problem is gone”.

Thanks, but that’s all we’ll do. I remember very well how many weeks were lost fixing the multiprocessor bug, and each time you’d say everything was fixed and it worked, and then, “Sorry, I didn’t add the layers. I’ll have to check again…” How many times was that, “Sorry?” I remember three times, and that’s three weeks, and that’s only in my thread, not counting how many times I’ve heard that “Sorry” here! There was also a thread about multiprocessors, where artifacts appeared in the sound when enabled.
The first post on this topic was on November 25, 2025 The multi processing option in the preferences (audio page) sometimes gets deselected here - #25 by sergeantt67 , and only in April of this year did I prove to you that the problem was real and you were finally able to reproduce it Artifacts in the sound with multiprocessing enabled in the settings - #28 by musicullum . So why do I need this? I spent six months proving all this…
So, thanks for the help, but that’s it! I think continuing this conversation is pointless, as is using this program now or in the future.
Good luck in your difficult endeavor, but this time, that’s it.

Brilliant! Nice release. Overall performance is surprising again. Works perfectly for me.
Also tried to replicate sergeantt67’s bug, Tried many times. No success.

Good luck then.

Without seeing code I’m sure for 100% that this bug isn’t possible technically. Otherwise it would be replicable at least by one user.

@sergeantt67, have you tried setting up your live setup on another computer, and does it behave the same?

Thanks, Artur, for your input. Of course, I’ve tried everything, but this only happens with the latest versions.
I’ve tried installing older versions, and they don’t have this issue, but there are other issues…
Anyway, don’t worry, I’ve uninstalled the program from my computer and under no circumstances will I install it again, much less buy an update. I’ll read the forum and relax.

Ah, okay. Do someone pushes you to use only latest version? Last year I used live the version that is older for 3-4 weeks than current and I was happy. You can’t?

Anyway thanks for your time and presence that helped many :wink: