I would like to deactivate some plugins for Dorico, because oftentimes I don’t have my ilok with me.
Is there an option for that?
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There is nothing built-in to deliberately do that, but there are more or less convenient workarounds, depending if they are VST2 or VST3 plug-ins.
VST2 plug-in have no defined installation path, so they could live anywhere on your disk. But you then need to tell Dorico the path to them.
So you could move the ilok protected plug-ins out to a special directory and in case you want to use them, specify in the Dorico-Preferences under the Play tab the VST2 path.
VST3 plugs are more difficult, because they live in predefined locations that the applications are scanning. So here you would need to move the .vst3 files in and out of those predefined folders, which is more of a hassle, and you have to be more careful.
Here’s a suggestion for a simple work-around, though I suspect there’s a lot more going on behind the scenes that would negate this simplistic approach.
Allow users to create a whitelist for VST3 plugins. This could be a simple text file, with indents for subfolders.
Even though Dorico would be loading all the VST3 plugins that are in the folder, perhaps users could alternately just be shown the plugins that were on their whitelist.
Nice idea, @Br0Haha , but it solves only half the problem. Some plugs you really don’t even want to get loaded in for a test purpose. I spoke already with the engineer who wrote the plug-in sentinel. So we have the request for a proper solution in our backlog, it is just unknown, when we will do it.
Thank you Ulf. Glad it’s on a list. I look forward to being pleasantly surprised to see it in some future update. It will be a big help.