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VST unique ID
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2DaT
- KVRist
- 437 posts since 21 Jun, 2013
Where can i get one? I am planning to release a plugin this winter and i am quite sure i need to get VST 2.4 unique id somewhere. I have acc on steinburg site but cant find where exactly i can get this.
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aciddose - KVRAF
- 12463 posts since 7 Dec, 2004
You don't "really" need to be assigned an ID. All you need is to ensure it is unique vs. the other plugins managed by a host.
Ideally hosts shouldn't even use it for anything, but unfortunately they do rather than generating a longer ID value from the various other data provided by a plugin.
Given that there are unlikely to be anywhere close to 4 billion vst plugins out there and far less probability of a collision in a particular host + set of plugins, randomly generating the ID (see GUID) is a fairly safe bet.
I'm not sure how the stienberg site works, someone else may be able to help you get an actual assigned ID value if you still want one.
Ideally hosts shouldn't even use it for anything, but unfortunately they do rather than generating a longer ID value from the various other data provided by a plugin.
Given that there are unlikely to be anywhere close to 4 billion vst plugins out there and far less probability of a collision in a particular host + set of plugins, randomly generating the ID (see GUID) is a fairly safe bet.
I'm not sure how the stienberg site works, someone else may be able to help you get an actual assigned ID value if you still want one.
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FabienTDR - KVRian
- 1103 posts since 24 Feb, 2012
The Steinberg plugin id site is pointless. Very much like anything Steinberg does.
It doesn't even check duplicates, wtf! And it's trivial anyway to hash a full plugin to generate a truly unique ID.
It doesn't even check duplicates, wtf! And it's trivial anyway to hash a full plugin to generate a truly unique ID.
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AdmiralQuality
- Banned
- 6657 posts since 10 Oct, 2005 from Toronto, Canada
You want this value stable for any given product.FabienTDR wrote:The Steinberg plugin id site is pointless. Very much like anything Steinberg does.
It doesn't even check duplicates, wtf! And it's trivial anyway to hash a full plugin to generate a truly unique ID.
Most hosts, at least the smart ones, find the plug-in by a series of tests, ID being the first of them. So if it can't find the same filename, date, (size?) as the plug-in it used previously, it will try to substitute a different one as long as it has the same ID and number of parameters. This lets you upgrade a product without breaking every project that used it, among other obvious benefits.
Then there is the opposite of tolerance... Hosts that get pissy if two plug-ins share the same ID and only show you one of them. Hosts that don't look at ID at all and only identify the plugin based on its exact pathname. Etc.
Anyway, best to just pick a string you like. I use the first 3 chars to ID vendor (me), then the last char for a product ID. If there is a conflict with some other product, the best way to find out is in Beta testing, and if so, fix it then.
