Is it possible to unload a plugin from a vst?

    dhjdhjdhj
    May 03 2014 | 12:50 am
    I've noticed that one difference between the behavior of VST~ on Max 6 vs Max 5 is that on the former, when you first instantiate a [vst~] object, there's no plugin loaded. In Max 5, there always seems to be a default plugin with a parameter called GAIN.
    So I'm wondering whether, in Max 6, there's a way to unload a plugin so that if a [vst~] is not needed for a while, there's no need for a plugin to be taking up memory, etc.
    • R∑N∑G∆D∑ R∆J∆
      May 03 2014 | 3:56 am
      send the message "plug dummy" or substitute the word 'dummy' with any non-existent vst on your system. there will be an inconsequential error message in the max window saying it couldn't find the vst but the object will be freed of any previously loaded vsts.
      not ideal, but works fine til some other solution comes along :)
    • dhjdhjdhj
      May 03 2014 | 10:33 am
      That's what I'm dong now (I send a plugin name called NONE). I just though there might be a proper unload in Max 6
    • Dan Nigrin
      May 07 2014 | 4:44 pm
      [plug none] is what I do as well. Works fine.
    • dhjdhjdhj
      May 07 2014 | 5:25 pm
      If I send the message 'plug none' to a vst~, I get a message
      "Can't find plug-in none"
      in the Max window. Certainly, the previous plugin is gone (at least "edit" doesn't do anything) but I would have liked to have avoided the error message