Hey hey,
in the canonical Csound manual vstprogset's syntax is:
vstprogset instance, kprogram
In practise, it appears that vstprogset will only take an i-rate parameter for 
the program. Tested with something like this:
...
kstatus, kchan, kdata1, kdata2
if kstatus == 192 then
   vstprogset ginstance, kdata1
else
   vstmidiout ginstance, kstatus, kchan, kdata1, kdata2
endif
...

That branching statement was necessary, because not all VSTs appear to accept 
MIDI program change or my device just sends too many things besides.

Can anyone clarify?

TIA and best wishes,

Jeanette

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