Thank you very much, Dorico team, for today’s code upgrade. If I may make a request for the next upgrade, please don’t over-write the whitelist file (or perhaps move the existing one to a different name).
Not sure why this is so, but I added the 64-bit Aria players to my whitelist in the original release of Dorico, and this (along with several VSTs from Sonar that I did not add explicitly) have persisted through all the upgrades.
I’m starting to think that the boys at Steinberg got a bit (just a tad) cynical regarding adding evidently quite a large number of VST2 instruments. Forgive me, I don’t mean o be rude or anything, but I know we all have the honor to deal with the BEST out there! If somebody can make things work, it’s YOU guys!
May the LORD bless you and keep you and let His face shine upon you this weekend!!
For future updates, I’ve created a go-folder to make preserving and updating my whitelists easy.
Create a folder on your desktop (or other easily accessible location) called, e.g., “Dorico VST.”
Go to the folder where defaults.xml is located, and create a shortcut/alias. Place it in the new folder.
Copy (do not alias) your defaults.xml file into the new folder as well.
Repeat steps 2-3 for the VST whitelist file.
Done! Now, when Dorico updates, you can restore your whitelists by copying the files into the aliases of their proper folders. This also makes it easier to update those files for new VSTs.
In order to save you from all this pain, with the next update (1.1) we will add the ability to have a second whitelist that goes into the user directory and won’t get touched by the updater. So the audio engine then reads both whitelists and merges them .
I have just downloaded Dorico 1.1 trial and first what I found is the missing Kontakt plugin. From what I read on this forum, Kontakt is whitelisted, so should be seen by default, but is not. Cubase sees it, Sibelius sees it, Dorico does not. Why?
Witold