Topic: Basic question: Missing Edit button

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  • August 19, 2004 at 17:39 #276
    Joachim
    Participant

    Somehow, I’ve managed to make the “Edit” button go away. You know, the button that opens up the interface of the plugins you have imported.
    All my plugins (Moog Modular V, CS-80V, NI B4, EVP-73, TRackS, etc-etc…), except from VAZ Moduler can no longer be edited for some strange reason.

    What’s wrong?

    /Joachim

    August 19, 2004 at 18:35 #3741
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    The edit button will only appear if the plugin is loaded sucessfully. If your plugins are configured as insert plugins, then they will only be loaded when arrangement monitoring is activated. If monitoring is on and the edit button still does not appear, then there should be a red warning button on the track with a popup message saying the plugins could not be loaded. This may be the case if you e.g. have changed the VST root folder. Open the project wizard window and check if there are any red buttons indicating errors.

    August 20, 2004 at 14:52 #3742
    Joachim
    Participant

    Bah… I’ve must have turned off monitoring and totally forgot about it, how embarrassing… 😳

    It makes sense really, why should one be able to edit a VST plugin while unable to hear the changes?
    Strange thing is that VAZ Modular (version 3.03) can be edited even with monitoring switched off. Thats why I thought something was wrong…. Maybe it’s because of the way VAZ Modular is buildt? If you have time, try the demo, see for yourself, I’m shure you’ll be just as baffled as I am.

    Get VAZ Modular here:
    http://www.software-technology.com/downform.htm

    Anyways, thanks for the quick reply! 😀
    /Joachim

    August 20, 2004 at 15:28 #3743
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    Your VAZ Modular is probably imported as a ‘global’ plugin instance, meaning that there are several mappings for the same instance that are used to assign multiple outputs or MIDI channels to multiple tracks. Global plugins are always loaded nomatter if monitoring is active.

    August 22, 2004 at 02:50 #3744
    Joachim
    Participant

    Now I remember how I “magically” made the Edit button go away as mentioned before… It’s because arrangment monitoring is turned off by default upon startup.
    Why is this so? Why do we even have an arrangment monitoring switch?

    /Joachim

    August 22, 2004 at 12:49 #3745
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    The monitor switch activates the audio engine and engages any live MIDI and audio inputs you have placed on tracks in the arrangement. Deactivating monitoring will to stop audio processing and thus free any cpu resources used by the plugins. Your project file can contain several arrangements so the monitor switch is also used to select which arrangement you want to activate. Any insert plugins are only loaded in memory when monitoring is active, so the monitor switch is a kind of ‘load’ command for the arrangement.

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