Based (fairly heavily) on the again example provided in the VST3 SDK. Do a project wide find and replace for VSTName and replace that with whatever you want your VST to be called. Don't forget to rename files/directories as necessary. In order to compile you will need to get the VST3 API from Steinberg, http://www.steinberg.net/en/company/3rd_party_developer.html When you have expanded the arcives, you need to copy the following directories into the VST directory in the project. /pluginterfaces /public.sdk /vstgui.sf