VST on Linux. When?

Is there a roadmap for enabling VST plugins on Linux? This is a glaring omission in the support for Resolve on the OS. I mean, Fairlight is not the world's greatest DAW at the best of times, but without VST it's really not adequate for professional work.

Thanks for that timely reply Blackmagic, it really shows that you have your customers' interests front and center.

Is there a roadmap for...

Welcome to Blackmagic's community forums, Stephen.
You might want to note that whist BMD maintain an active (and much valued) presence here, and whilst they clearly welcome feature requests, they don't tend to use these forums to discuss future development plans.
Cheers
Andy

without VST it's really not adequate for professional work.

I would rather see those things built-in, no plug-ins necessary.

I would rather see the option for users to have access to the vast array of VST plugins that already exist. Go to somewhere like this page https://www.pluginboutique.com/search?q ... compressor just to see the available compressor plugins, for example (keep scrolling, keep scrolling). There are literally hundreds of them, all with different strengths, ranging from free to costing several hundred dollars. I don't think BMD are going to give us that kind of depth of choice in built-in plugins.

I switched to Linux recently (or am trying to) and found this a weird omission too. Especially since there is a possibility to set paths for VSTs in the options of Resolve and there is default path for this as well. So, what's up with that?

The lack of access to vsts will mean that I have to roundtrip to reaper which I would like to avoid for the trivial stuff because that just makes my work much slower.

So please please enable support for this.

Has anyone any idea if there has ever been a reponse from BMD about why VSTs aren't supported or at the very least, when we could expect them to be?

There was a non-answer on another thread where Dwayne Maggart said that he couldn't discuss it. So they're aware that people on Linux are annoyed by it. Whether they care, well the absolute lack of any action on their behalf to do anything about it kinda points at the answer being no.

This answer the question I had on the subject.
Since I'm planning to ditch Windows in the future, I hope the Linux version of Resolve is going a bit more complete in the future.

For whatever it's worth - Waves, iZotope, Native Instruments and many other major VST developers only officially support Windows and macOS. Heck, even a majority of the plugins I've found from independent developers are only compiled for Windows or macOS.

I'm sure some people will cobble something together with Wine, but that may not be something everyone wants to do and may cause problems with Resolve. I imagine that's one big factor in the lacking VST support on Linux.

Having just had a look at the Plugin Boutique website, none of the plugins are shown as Linux compatible. All are shown as Windows or Mac.

Ok, well this makes sense.
I have no technical knowledge about how VSTs work, I just use them lol.
I though they were some kind of "universal" type of plugin for the audio world

There are plenty of Linux VST plugins. Here's a catalog of 600: https://linuxdaw.org/

The lack of vst support makes things difficult for me as well, especially as I'm working with ambisonic