I just bought my first two (64-bit VST3) plug-ins from a particular developer.
Nuendo 10 and Cubase 10 immediately blacklisted both plug-ins after installation.
Both plug-ins were properly activated on my iLok, which is running on the most recent version of License Manager.
I momentarily re-activated both plug-ins in Cubase, confirmed that I could load each of them, and that they both worked (at least during the few minutes that I had them loaded), and then allowed them to be re-blacklisted.
The developer doesn’t know why their plug-ins were blacklisted.
The developer’s customer support rep doesn’t (yet) seem responsive to my suggestion that they ask Steinberg directly why their plug-ins are being blacklisted, even though I poited out that only Steinberg could pinpoint the issue (maybe there’s a recursive loop buried in the code somewhere, or an improper internal library call, or a reference to an out-of-date runtime . . . or maybe they were built using an out-of-date SDK, or they hook into the DAWs in some weird way) . . .
. . . or acknowledge that these are “false positives,” and “de-blacklist” the plug-ins.
So… is there a way that I can determine what it is that caused the Plug-in Sentinel to flag the plug-ins as being likely to cause “instability”? The VST Plugin Manager says only that the plug-ins were blacklisted, but it doesn’t say why.
Is there any specific information packed away somewhere — maybe in one of Cubase’s/Nuendo’s XML files — that I can copy and paste into an e-mail to the developer?
It would be nice, in general, to be able to not just know that particular 64-bit plug-ins were blacklisted, but to also know why they were.
Thanks!!!
