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Wild Hades · Post by **Wild Hades** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 9:25 pm

Hey guys,
I want to get a Unique ID from Steinberg to put into my plugin, but I can't find the Unique ID request form anywhere in the Steinberg site... where is it (supposing it's still available)?

Searching on Google it gives me an old registration page with broken links that once submitted redirects me to the Steinberg home page...

Is it still possible to get a Unique ID?

Regards

ToguAudioLine · Post by **ToguAudioLine** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 1:41 pm

Wild Hades wrote:Hey guys,
I want to get a Unique ID from Steinberg to put into my plugin, but I can't find the Unique ID request form anywhere in the Steinberg site... where is it (supposing it's still available)?

Searching on Google it gives me an old registration page with broken links that once submitted redirects me to the Steinberg home page...

Is it still possible to get a Unique ID?

Regards

I always have to search the page too. I'm using following page for vst plugin registration:
http://service.steinberg.de/databases/p ... n?openForm

Hope its still the right page... looks a bit old, but it still works.

Maybe its better to register a 3rd party developer account. Will do this right now

http://www.steinberg.net/nc/en/company/ ... count.html

aciddose · Post by **aciddose** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 1:45 pm

you could also just take the crc32 of some string, like "author - plugin name"

the odds of a conflict are less than a million to one.

Wild Hades · Post by **Wild Hades** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 3:07 pm

ToguAudioLine wrote:I always have to search the page too. I'm using following page for vst plugin registration:
http://service.steinberg.de/databases/p ... n?openForm

Hope its still the right page... looks a bit old, but it still works.

Yeah, that's what I've found searching on Google, it's indeed old and if you click on "Legal Notice" you'll get 404...

I'm registered as 3d party developer, but I still can't find the form, don't know if I'm stupid, or if it's just not there...

you could also just take the crc32 of some string, like "author - plugin name"

the odds of a conflict are less than a million to one.

Yeah, you're right and that's what I'll end up doing...

Rock Hardbuns · Post by **Rock Hardbuns** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 4:54 pm

I am under the impression that this system has become irrelevant without anyone actually deciding it to be so.
I believe most hosts today rely on paths for the common case, and some kind of heuristics when a substitution is required.

very angry mobster · Post by **very angry mobster** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 10:50 pm

I believe most hosts today rely on paths for the common case, and some kind of heuristics when a substitution is required.

Bidule is one exception. It won't allow multiple plugins to use the same ID. It balks at the scanning stage.

MWSOS · Post by **MWSOS** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 12:37 am

very angry mobster wrote:Bidule is one exception. It won't allow multiple plugins to use the same ID. It balks at the scanning stage.

Hi very angry mobster!

Bidule users can suffer major frustrations from this.

Cubase 4 did it as well, but can often be tricked into re-detecting the missing item if you move the 'missing' DLL file from the standard Steinberg / VstPlugins folder into the Steinberg / Cubase 4 / VstPlugins folder, but .

If anyone ever suffers from missing plug-ins because of suspected VST ID issues, perhaps having a read of this column I wrote for SOS November 2007 on 'Resolving VST Plug-in Conflicts' might help:

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/nov07/a ... s_1107.htm

Hope so anyway

It also explains how to manually hack a DLL binary file to change its VST ID if you need to resolve such conflicts on your system

Martin

very angry mobster · Post by **very angry mobster** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 4:42 am

Hello Martin!

MWSOS · Post by **MWSOS** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:34 pm

Steinberg Unique ID, where I can get it?