Plugin Manager list different versions of some of my plugins and what appears to be duplicates of some plugins. See the screenshot below. The Manager functions appear straightforward with respect to delayed, disabled etc.
My question is how exactly the “Remove selected plugin from list” works - e.g., would the plugin get reloaded if the plugins are rescanned? When GP loads again the next time? If it stays ‘removed’ how can it be reinitialized/scanned/loaded?
Here is the screenshot of the folders to scan for VSTs. As you can see, there is only one instance. The duplication appears to be only with the Waves plugins. Using the Open Folder for the highlighted plugin function, it is the same folder. See the screenshots. I would assume that GP would recognize that it has scanned and listed any given plugin, otherwise you’d get duplicates every time you rescanned something.
My main question was/is about the “Remove selected plugin from the list” though.
Using this one an an example, two Waves TUNE LT Monos, same description.
These are the only Waves .DLLs in the folder. Everything else is from a different manufacturer. Everything was installed from the Waves Central Installer/License Manager using the default choices. The timestamps are close on these, I think, because I installed free plugins which you choose after purchasing and installing paid items. Maybe it is one of those crazy Waves things, which is not unheard of judging from comments on their plugins elsewhere on this forum.
I haven’t included VST3s because there is no duplication there at all - if there is more that one instance it is because it is a different version as stated in the Despcription column - another big improvement of the VST3 standard over the VST standard I guess.
At the end of the day it isn’t a big deal as these can be disabled in GP so I won’t see the clutter in the list of plugins. Still wondering what the “Remove selected plugin from the list” does though.
You can right click on a VST plugin and select to “Open containing folder”. Do this for your duplicates and see if they’re maybe installed twice in different folders.
To remove a plugin from the list permanently - find the ones you want to remove, delete this files from your disk (or move them somewhere where the scanner can’t find them) and then select the option to remove the plugins for which files no longer exist and that will clean things up.
@djogon Thanks, but as you can see from the screenshots I did that, they are the same identical folder, and no duplicates files (by name, anyway). These are only VSTs which I don’t use so it’s not a problem, I just deselect them.
However, this was not my main question. What does the “Remove selected plugin from the list” choice do? Will it get added again when rescanned?
@djogon Thank you so much for the explanation of GP Manager choice, now I know what i want to do with these.
WRT the Waves plugins, that is what I thought too as the description reports the version for all of these to be 1.0.0.0 which is not believable. All are available as VST3s though so I don’t use the VST versions and I can simply disable them to clear the clutter.
