ASIO guard setting per plugin?

Dorico
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Hello,

Is there any way currently to disable ASIO guard per plugin? Apparently Vienna Ensemble Pro is not intended to be used with ASIO guard so I’d like to turn that off without having to turn off the feature globally.

I can’t seem to find such an option in the menu, but I’m hoping maybe there’s some hidden way by editing an .xml file or something.

Thanks!

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Why would you need to retain it?

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I’m not clear on your question (retain what?), but if other plugins are used in Dorico that aren’t Vienna Ensemble Pro, I do want to use ASIO guard for them. In Cubase there is a UI to disable ASIO guard per plugin, so that if it is not compatible with some plugins, you can still use the feature with other plugins but have it turned off for those plugins that it is incompatible with. Dorico doesn’t seem to have this in the UI, but I imagine it may still be possible to enable or disable by editing some kind of config file, since they share a common audio engine.

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I think you can’t do that in Dorico, but I’ll reconfirm with my colleagues. A little patience please…

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Actually, yes, there is a workaround.

Are you on Win or Mac?

On Win, have a look for the XML file

%APPDATA%/Roaming/Steinberg/Dorico%205%20AudioEngine_64/VstPlugInfoV4.xml

Load that into a text editor and you’ll see lots of entries like

<obj class="VstPlugInfo" ID="312093888">
<int name="Number of Input Busses" value="0"/>
<int name="Number of Output Busses" value="0"/>
<int name="Input Speaker Arrangement" value="0"/>
<int name="Output Speaker Arrangement" value="0"/>
<int name="Latency" value="0"/>
<int name="Side chain input busses" value="0"/>
<int name="Flags" value="0"/>
<string name="uid" value="5653544E6924446B6F6E74616B740000"/>
<string name="name" value="Kontakt" wide="true"/>
</obj>

The Flags value you have to set accordingly. To disable ASIO Guard you have to set the sixth bit from the right, so if the value is previously “0” you set it to “32” and save the file. If it has already some other value, then you need to do a bitwise OR with 32.
It’s a little bit techy, do you understand?

Edit: On Mac that same file is in the folder
~/Library/Preferences/Dorico 5 AudioEngine

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I’m on Windows, and thanks, I can handle that just fine. I have a programming background, so binary operations are pretty easy for me. I already figured it was likely the Flags field but I wasn’t sure what bit it was. Thanks again!

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