“CLAP is open source, released under the MIT license: No fees, memberships or proprietary license agreements are required before developing or distributing a CLAP capable host or plug-in, and the license never expires.”
Bitwig and u-he built an open plug-in format with real multicore support and per-note modulation. The pitch that matters is the license line. No fees, no membership, and it never expires. Every plug-in developer knows which incumbent standard they’re being told to stop depending on.