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Old 04-28-2012, 05:56 AM   #87
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Default VST3 and subCategories

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Originally Posted by olilarkin View Post
EDIT: actually I forgot how this works. ivstaudioprocessor.h has these constants which OR together subcategories already. So what you are reading relates to combining the FX subcategory with an FX type. You can't put multiple FX types and have your plugin appear in multiple places in Cubase's plugin menu.
Thanks Oli. It seems that one can edit those strings to define the sub-category name as it appears in Cubase/Nuendo's plug-in selection menus (Studio One appears to ignore the sub-category designation). I would expect this comes up for many devs, e.g. if one's plug-in were a channel strip. I notice that some 3rd party VST3 built from other frameworks than wdl-ol do appear under sub-categories that are not defined in the SDK. (e.g. Waves Vocal Rider and WavesTune appear under a "Vocal" sub-menu.)

I wasn't able to figure out how to add new categories, but that would seem to a more proper way.
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