You can have more than two instances of CsoundVST running at the same time in Cubase 4. So what you are saying about the unique ID is not the case.

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: Victor Lazzarini 
>Sent: Nov 13, 2008 8:12 AM
>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: csound as vst plugin
>
>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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