Some VST plugins not showing up in patcher

Stew Day's icon

Hi all,

I've been playing around with adding VST plugins to a M4L device and notice that in the patcher when I click on the plugin icon on the side menu bar some of my VST plugins are not showing up in the list.

Using vst~ with the 'plug' message I can choose any plugin installed in my system but for some reason they are not all showing up in the side menu.

Is this because the plugin developer hasn't created a simple UI option that shows up with sliders and buttons etc?

Roman Thilenius's icon

there are several reasons why something wont show up in a filebrowser (vst version? 32/64bit? incompatible?) - but that generic GUI is always made by the host program as soon as there is more than 0 parameters, and not by the VST plug-in.

Max Gardener's icon

...what Roman said.

Stew Day's icon

Thanks Roman.

They should all be 64bit, VST2 plugins so it must be some other incompatibility. I find it strange that I can load them and they seem to work within a M4L audio device using vst~ and plug though.