KVR Audio

lfm · Post by **lfm** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 8:44 am

Hi

Looking at what hardware controllers might do, if they got a connection to a plugin(midi learn etc).

Are there stuff that a host can support - and a plugin can send a command to show itself?

Is it standard maybe, and always been there?
If so, are hosts usually supporting this?

You don't have to fiddle with first activating a track and navigate a insert bay and then open gui.

Thanks.

Miles1981 · Post by **Miles1981** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 8:46 am

I don't remember an interface in VST2 allowing to do that. To create the UI, the host sends itself a pointer to the plugin to show itself in the corresponding window. Some hardware controller are different (like Push for Live) as they can access different APIs.

lfm · Post by **lfm** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 9:11 am

Many thanks.

Just a thought, and it would be very useful implementing hardware controllers.

Miles1981 · Post by **Miles1981** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 9:25 am

There are some APIs for controlling hardware, but I think very few for what you want

Big Tick · Post by **Big Tick** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 11:42 am

No. The DAW tells you when and where to show up.

arne · Post by **arne** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 6:31 pm

VST3 has it. See : IComponentHandler2::requestOpenEditor (FIDString name)

Does VST interface allow a plugin to show itself in a daw?