Complain to Steinberg/Yamaha about the licensing policy. I have. If we keep complaining they will change it.

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: Rory Walsh 
>Sent: Nov 13, 2008 9:14 AM
>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: csound as vst plugin
>
>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 :
>> 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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