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Old 11-02-2021, 03:58 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Mercado_Negro View Post
Could you please explain this, devs?
VST2s have a 32-bit identifier for each plug-in, VST3s have a 16-byte (128-bit) identifier. You can hash the 16-byte VST3 idents to get a VST2 ident, but there's a small risk of collisions. There are some places in REAPER that have traditionally used these hashes along with the filename of the plug-in, but we're migrating to keeping the full 16-byte VST3 idents to reduce the possibility of an issue occurring when the underlying plug-in gets renamed. You'll have to re-scan the plug-ins in order to add the full VST3 ident to the .ini files (but it'll work whether or not you do).
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