On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:26 AM, DeRobyJ <dero...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does that mean that you have to put all the dlls in the same folder?
>
Not necessarily. VST effects suffer from that problem, but VST instruments
can be in subfolders. It really depends how you structure your plugins. I
personally don't use the expensive VSTs which require installation, so I
keep my DLLs on a cloud drive organized as I wish, which works with the 1.1
branch.
The issue with commercial VSTs is they tend to install in arbitrary
locations such as %ProgramFiles% and %ProgramFiles(x86)% within certain
locations specific to each plugin. This causes architectural path related
problems between 64-bit and 32-bit plugins if the DLLs aren't moved to
within the working directory.
Can't we just have a piece of code that seaches the needed dll in a list of
> folders edited by users in a text file?
>
We currently support multiple paths for LADSPA effects. We could certainly
do the same for VSTs without much code modification, although the inputbox
is a bit small for multiple locations, and searching recursively through
folders isn't yet coded. That would have to be thought out properly
because there are instances where a folder could contain both a 64-bit and
a 32-bit plugin and we'd probably want the software to intelligently select
the best match first. This should probably go into a more detailed bug
report so that we don't forget the discussion in the archives of the
mailing list.
-Tres
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