Let us know which VST2.x plug-ins are working in Dorico

Just tested and found sforzando and Aria Player VST are working with Dorico.
I strongly suggest Dorico team to make them enabled as default from now on.



FYI: > The ENTER and the WIN keys are corresponding to the RETURN and the CMD key on real macs.

Open Terminal.app and run the following command:

sudo nano /Applications/Dorico.app/Contents/Applications/VSTAudioEngine.app/Contents/Components/vst2whitelist.txt

Press RETURN key, type your administrator password (or root password if you have root account enabled), press RETURN again to confirm.

After that, for each VST2 plugin you want to enable, you have to type their VST Plugin title into the terminal window one line per plugin.

Note that the content of this text is CASE SENSITIVE. I once mistyped “sforzando” as “Sforzando” and Dorico failed to reveal this plugin.

An example of this whitelist file is shown through the attached PNG file.

After finishing the content of this text file in the terminal window, press CMD+O and then press RETURN to save this edited whitelist text file into your local drive. Now you could force-quit the terminal app, run Dorico and see the changes.

PLAY 5 VST3 is a real shyte among what you should trust.
I used this plugin in PreSonus Studio One 3.5, finished several MIDI arrangement projects, and I hadn’t found a crashing case yet.

Hallo

I’m happy. I could use Aria Player, Pianoteq5 Stage, Play, Kontakt in Dorico.
But UVIWorkstation got me in trouble.

As I think it has not been mentioned in this thread, this is how I did it:

  1. UVIWorkstationVST
  2. macOS Sierra

Interestingly, it should be UVIWorkstationAU, who is how it is listed in the plug-ins file.
So, I suggest to try UVIWorkstationVST if AU don’t work, in Mac.

And it works! Now I can use IRCAM prepared piano in Dorico…!!

VidPlayVST seems to be working OK in Dorico under Windows 10.

I’m not sure of the actual GUID, but this worked for me in the Whitelist:

VidPlayVST64
00000000000000000000000000000000

reaStream seems to be working OK in Dorico under Windows 10


I’m not sure of the actual GUID, but this worked for me in the Whitelist:

reastream-standalone
00000000000000000000000000000000
reastream-standalone-4
00000000000000000000000000000000
reastream-standalone-8
00000000000000000000000000000000
reastream-standalone-12
00000000000000000000000000000000
reastream-standalone-16
00000000000000000000000000000000
reastream-standalone-24
00000000000000000000000000000000
reastream-standalone-32
00000000000000000000000000000000

As of Dorico 1.1 you no longer need to include the 32-digit code at all, for what it’s worth.

ReWire VST seems to be working well in Dorico.

So far I’ve only tested using the discrete processing build of Bidule as a slave. In theory it should also work with other slaves like Sibelius, and Finale.

Added to playlist on a Windows 10 PC:

ReWire VST

Hello,

I just like to share that I am using a few VST instruments, which I added to the whitelist file, and they are working great.


OS X Sierra
Two different PowerBook Pro (i7 and i6 cpu)
vst Myvirtual instruments
————————————

Superior Drummer 3

IK Multimedia Miroslav Philharmonik 2

Soniccouture Vibraphone

Native Instruments y Native Access

Spectrasonics Trilian Bass

Ivory II Piano

neo soul key 4

I have actually updated and tried it since my last post and it seems to work just fine with Dorico. Now I just need the VST/Expression map side of things to catch up a bit and I’ll be happy.

Now that really is interesting and one of the big misses for me so far in Dorico as I mostly work scoring films.

UVIWorkstation version 2.6.15 works in Dorico 1.2 on a MacBook Pro running macOS 10.12.6 (Sierra). I use this with UVI’s World Suite.

Sound Canvas VA Software Synthesizer does work, once it is whitelisted:

How about splitting this list into Mac and Windows ?

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