What's up with the hashtags in the DAW Essentials Collection?

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I did try to search for this, but I've failed it seems.

Why are all of the DAW Essentials Collections plugins preceded with a #?

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I was wondering that, too.

Perhaps an attempt at making them appear first in a sorted list of plugins?

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Naenyn wrote:I was wondering that, too.

Perhaps an attempt at making them appear first in a sorted list of plugins?

I think, that´s the right answer...
With alphabetic sorting without the hashtag you get i.e. TDR plugins inbetween the (without hashtag) TCrusher and TDelay Studio...

With the hashtag naming, the group stays together in a list...

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Trancit wrote:
Naenyn wrote:I was wondering that, too.

Perhaps an attempt at making them appear first in a sorted list of plugins?

I think, that´s the right answer...
With alphabetic sorting without the hashtag you get i.e. TDR plugins inbetween the (without hashtag) TCrusher and TDelay Studio...

With the hashtag naming, the group stays together in a list...
Annoyingly though, it always ends at the top of the list in many DAWs... which is not very nice behaviour :(
Last edited by Robert Randolph on Wed Mar 28, 2018 12:11 am, edited 2 times in total.

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Robert Randolph wrote:Annoyingly though, it always ends at the top of the list in every DAW... which is not very nice behaviour :(
Agreed. At least some DAWs let you organize them the way you want. Like Waveform. :love:

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Robert Randolph wrote: Annoyingly though, it always ends at the top of the list in many DAWs... which is not very nice behaviour :(
I guess, this was the second intention... :wink:

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Trancit wrote:
Robert Randolph wrote: Annoyingly though, it always ends at the top of the list in many DAWs... which is not very nice behaviour :(
I guess, this was the second intention... :wink:
I hope not. We may end up with an arms race of developers adding weird unnecessary characters to their plugins to make them appear at the top of a list. :x

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Robert Randolph wrote:
Trancit wrote:
Robert Randolph wrote: Annoyingly though, it always ends at the top of the list in many DAWs... which is not very nice behaviour :(
I guess, this was the second intention... :wink:
I hope not. We may end up with an arms race of developers adding weird unnecessary characters to their plugins to make them appear at the top of a list. :x
No problem for at least VST2... you can rename the dlls to whatever you like...

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It was mostly so you had something unique to search for and return all the plugins. You can type "#t" and find all the Tracktion plugins as opposed to "equ" and return the hundreds of EQs installed.

Other suites do similar things such as MeldaProduction prefixing their names with "M". We just quite liked the look of the "#t" and it would be familiar to people through hash-tagging.

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