KV331 Audio

b15fliptop · Post by **b15fliptop** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 8:19 pm

The latest version shows up in Reaper as "Synthmaster 2.6 Instrument". The previous version showed up as "Synthmaster 2.5 Instrument", even though it was actually 2.6.something. So now, when I try to open a project with the last version, it says "Plugin not found" and loads without any Synthmaster instances. I have no idea what any of the patches were, either. So… that's less than ideal.

toothnclaw · Post by **toothnclaw** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 8:28 pm

Copy-paste the dll into a different folder, rename to 2.5 and move back to where it was. See if works.

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Tue Aug 27, 2013 8:28 am

The plugin ID did NOT change. That's Reaper's problem if it is sorting plugins by their names.

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Tue Aug 27, 2013 8:31 am

toothnclaw wrote:Copy-paste the dll into a different folder, rename to 2.5 and move back to where it was. See if works.

No please do not rename the DLL.

b15fliptop · Post by **b15fliptop** » Tue Aug 27, 2013 11:52 am

So if we use Reaper we're just out of luck?

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Tue Aug 27, 2013 7:47 pm

Well I really dont know how Reaper handles the "uniqueness" of plugins. The VST standard defines a "plugin ID" for that purpose. I havent changed the ID between v2.5 and 2.6 and wont do that for v2.7

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Tue Aug 27, 2013 7:48 pm

I'll try to restore v2.5 on the server so you guys can download v2.5 as well.

and will test upgrading from 2.5 to 2.6 on hosts like Reaper and FLStudio.

b15fliptop · Post by **b15fliptop** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 4:19 pm

Okay, I found a workaround, thanks to some help on the Reaper forum. If I open the Reaper project in a text editor and run Find and Replace to change each instance of "SynthMaster 2.5" to "SynthMaster 2.6", the projects now open properly. I have to say, I've been using Reaper for several years, and have hundreds of plugins, and this is the first time this has happened. I don't know where the issue is, because you say the ID hasn't changed, and the filename is just "SynthMaster2.component", so where it's getting the "SynthMaster 2.6 Instrument" as the plugin name within Reaper is a mystery to me. It would be great if this could get resolved so it doesn't happen again, though!

dexterbella · Post by **dexterbella** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 4:33 pm

This is very odd. I just tested this myself by loading an old Reaper project that I'm pretty certain was done with 2.5 and it seemed to load fine?

b15fliptop · Post by **b15fliptop** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 4:36 pm

AU or VST? This project was AU.

dexterbella · Post by **dexterbella** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 4:43 pm

Ah...sorry. VST.

b15fliptop · Post by **b15fliptop** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 4:56 pm

No worries, it helps narrow down the problem!

djsubject · Post by **djsubject** » Sat Aug 31, 2013 8:20 am

i'm totally confused?

Reaper is happy to load my older projects

would like to know how the description name change messed up Reaper!

if the dll had a different name that would make sense!

Subz

b15fliptop · Post by **b15fliptop** » Sat Aug 31, 2013 12:33 pm

Maybe because, as has been established, my project was using the AU.

kv331 · Post by **kv331** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 5:58 pm

The plugin reports its name to the host, BUT, it's the plugin ID that the host should care.

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