I'm pretty sure that a regular vst plugin can have many instances of
itself open at any one time, it seems pretty silly not to allow for
that? Like you I don't use VST and I don't have any here to try it
with! I also echo your sentiments with regards to Steinberg's
licensing policy.


2008/11/13 Victor Lazzarini <Victor.Lazzarini@nuim.ie>:
> As a solution, perhaps two or more copies of the same CSD would
> allow two or more instances.
>
> It might be the case that for VST, you can only have 1 instance of
> each uniqueID effect. I don't know as I don't use VST (it's not FOSS!!!
> and steinberg should be ashamed of themselves for not making it
> so!).
>
> Victor
>
> At 12:21 13/11/2008, you wrote:
>>
>> Apart from my csound vst instruments I have no other vst plugins on
>> this machine. I'm assuming that one can normally use as many instances
>> of the same plugin as they like without any problems. I would have
>> thought that the constructor for each plugin would be called on every
>> instantiation but it doesn't appear that way for me. It looks like
>> Csound is only compiling once, hence only one instance of it is
>> running even when I have two Csound plugins on screen. I need to look
>> more closely at this. As for the resizing issue, my plugins open in a
>> small window but if I resize they are fine and I can see all the
>> controls fully in my plugins window. If I close the window and reopen
>> it returns to the last size so the controls can still be seen. I would
>> really like to sort out the multiple instances issue. I don't think
>> it's something to do with the unique ID as every plugin has a unique
>> ID, and usually several of them can be launched simultaneously without
>> problems.
>>
>> Rory.
>>
>>
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> Victor Lazzarini
> Music Technology Laboratory
> Music Department
> National University of Ireland, Maynooth
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