I understand. Well, if this process is done be hovering over an insert and then having some macros open the listBox of plugins, I see no other way of doing it, apart of course from automating even the hover.
There’s a trick one can use based on a pseudo mackie device, to browse through vst plugins for a specific slot using the MR API. Let me know if interested, though from what I understand, you wish to load specific plugins.
Well, it’s not that easy to implement. The mouse would have to go to an empty slot. That’s still possible, but then a specific plugin would have to be loaded. Let’s say an EQ. But I’d like to always load the EQ with the same key on different plugin slots, always to an empty slot. I don’t think that’s possible.
It is. Have a look at a video I had uploaded:
Imagine that instead of the Window I have there as a pseudo controller, we just have dedicated buttons/knobs on our controller. This would do the job, for example, we could easily setup dedicated buttons for loading specific plugin in a specific slot. The thing is that this needs an external utility, and currently I’m not 100% happy with it to share it. I have to make a request to Steinberg for some points I need clarifications, and if everything works 100%, I’ll get back with a thread/snippet for anyone wanting to get into it.
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But you still always have to select the insert slot based on the number. You can’t just select a second plugin and it will automatically load into the next empty slot.
As shown in the video, this also works with the SideshowFX Streamdeck profile.
So you select an empty insert slot via the stream deck and then go to another page and select a plugin. However, I would have liked it if you could simply load a plugin with the stream deck and it would automatically load into the next empty slot.
I think I may have described it incorrectly. So you can do it with the script as shown in your video, but you have to click too many times on the stream deck. It’s cumbersome. That’s why I move the mouse to the next free slot and then press the key that loads the appropriate plugin.
But what kind of tool is that in the video?
Nope. The video just demonstrates that we can have total control. If I want, I can have it load the plugin into the very next available (empty) slot.
A combi of an MR script and an external utility I’ve made specifically for loading vst plugins. The external utility is for properly indexing the plugins, and notify the MR script, which handles the rest. This means, that since we have control of the insert slots ( and strip slots), one can script accordingly to load wherever is needed. Once I’m happy with the external utility’s enumerating method, I will share it, plus an MR snippet for doing the final handles.
All these of course would get obsolete, if this FR was (gets) implemented:
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OK, that’s cool that you can load a plugin into an empty slot with the tool. Could you do that with the Stream Deck as well?
Sorry, I don’t understand the “TOLL” thing. Could you please rephrase it for me (English is not my mother tongue).
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OK, that’s cool that you can load a plugin into an empty slot with the tool. Could you do that with the Stream Deck as well?
Ah, tool! 
Yes, for sure, as long as the external utility is running, and then the StreamDeck would simply act as a triggering device (always while having an MR script). I know nothing about StreamDeck, since I don’t own one, but isn’t it similar to, say, the LoupeDeck CT? I used to have one, I guess they’re close in their assigning ways? (Really don’t know).
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OK, then I’m curious when you publish it and I can try it out
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