To help us expand the whitelist, please post in this thread including … the relevant lines from the vst2whitelist.txt file, i.e. the plug-in filename and the GUID (the long alphanumeric string).
MOTU MachFive 3.2.1.0
OS X El Capitan 10.11.6
I haven’t given the string as I don’t know what/where it is ?
I withdraw my recent post that MOTU MachFive 3.2.1.0 works ok.
I posted too early because I successfully loaded it, and assigned sounds to each stave, but none of them show up in the mixer.
And neither do the Vienna VSLs either.
Dear Gone to lunch,
You mean you can see them in the right panel of Play mode, use them as playback instruments (assigning the players in the left panel some instruments from those plug-ins) but they do not show up in the mixer after that? And probably don’t play either? That’s odd…
Could you post a picture of your Play mode window showing the assignments on the players panel?
You must make sure you use the multi-output version of MachFive, assuming there is one.
Daniel, this is the first message to be read when it comes to getting VST2 PlugIns to work with Dorico.
It does link to an outdated Knowledge Base article which has some wrong information still and might cause trouble.
It still shows the name of the whitelist text file as whitelist.txt - which will not work in Dorico 2
[edit] ah I have just seen, the article has been updated! Thank you.
I have whitelisted the following plugins and found them all to work properly:
Keyscape 1.1.2c
Omnisphere 2.4.2c
Trilian 1.4.4c
Pianoteq Standard 6.2.0
EZDrummer 2.0.2
Superior Drummer 3.1.2
ARIA Player VST 1.504
I run Dorico on my MacBook Pro Retina Mid 2012 with MacOS High Sierra 10.13.5
If I may… Pianoteq 6.2 is not a vst2. plug-in, but a vst3 (and an excellent one)
Pianoteq 6.2 has both vst2 and vst3 support. If you whitelist it as vst2 and remove the vst3 file it will load the vst2 version. Owtherwise it will load the vst3 version.
“ARIA Player VST_x64
565354474152416172696120706C6179”
I’m trying to get aria player vst 64 going as well… is the number line beneath “ARIA Player VST_64” a universal number (realizing it’s probably not) or is that referencing the windows registry folder it resides?
Thanks
That is a plugin ID, and it is universal and Unique to the ARIA Player, and the same on all Windows systems.
It is no longer needed in a Dorico whitelist. With the latest Dorico 1 or Dorico 2 versions, you only need the plugin names in the whitelist:
ARIA Player VST_x64
ARIA Player Multi VST_x64
With Dorico, I’d suggest using the Multi Version, as it allows you to designate each instrument slot to unique Dorico Mixer channels.
You will likely find the Aria Player (Multi) more useful, since it lets you output the different instruments/channel slots to different channels in the Mixer.
ARIA Player Multi VST_x64
I’m trying to use East West’s Spaces reverb, in combination with NotePerformer 3.
Is that possible?
I followed the instructions I found online, about how to “whitelist” a VST2 effect / instrument. But it doesn’t seem to work.
Thanks!
In theory you can certainly use Spaces with Dorico, though I’ve not actually used it myself. This support article is up to date, so if you follow the steps in there you should be all set. If you still have problems, I suggest you start a new thread along with some more details of what you have tried, and perhaps also zip up the contents of your VSTAudioEngine2 folder from /Users/your-username/Library/Preferences and attach it to your post.
Thanks Daniel!
This works - I can include two instances of Spaces on each of NotePerformer 1 and NotePerformer 2, see screen picture.
Update July 22, 2018: Spaces 2 by East West - still in beta testing, to be released next week - works with Dorico as well.
Follow the instructions posted by Daniel above about whitelisting VST2 plugins.
You can use both of them at the same time, by the way (Spaces 1 and 2).
ps Daniel - check out the GUIs - is that sexy, or what? Look at all those big shiny knobs.
Hi there,
could someone please help me out here? Thanks if you can 
I’ve noticed some instruments I have in my vst dorico folders are not there.
The instruments I can see are Kontakt 5, note performer, Vienna ensemble and East-West Play, but I cannot see my Ivory Piano, and Garritan CFX piano, which then means I have to whitelist these - I’m guessing that “whitelist” means that once these instruments on my notepad are inserted into the certain file defined by the instructions, on starting up next time, the vst engine will find these and add these to the vst instruments that are available. I hope that I’m correct here.
I’ve seen the instructions for getting my vst instruments into Dorico [2] that is. Here they are -I need to ask what one of them means first:
“Enter the file name of the desired VST plug-in without file name extension. Please strictly comply with the spelling and case of the original file name.”
I’m not sure where I get the file names from for these instruments? Do I get them from my Steinberg vst instruments folder where the dll files are? Thanks if you can give the info.
And for the following instruction:
“Start a new line for each VST2 plug-in you like to add to your whitelist.”
I’m not sure what that means for me to do. Does it simply mean that after I’ve added the name, I hit the “enter” button to start a new line with a different instrument in the document?
thanks kindly for any advice and help someone can give me here
Steve M.
The name of the VST should be the name of the .dll without the .dll extension.
Answer to #2: Yes, hit the Enter button to start a new line.
Hi Derrek,
thank you for that info. I’ll get started and see what happens!
Steve
Thank you Derrek,
wow - worked perfectly. You’re a champion! Fantastic!
best,
Steve
