PSA: comport v1.2 has been released and is available on Deken. This issue should be resolved now. Please test!

would use their own selectors and that selectors would be a thing, but they are not and it does not help in any way

Selectors are used all the time. Every method - apart from float, symbol and pointer methods - starts with a selector. For example, if you send [set foo( to [tabwrite], set is the selector.

another option is [iem_receive] from iemlib.

This feature seems trivial on surface, but it is really not. If implemented naively, it can crash Pd under certain circumstances. For a technical discussion, see https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/604. Making it safe would require some changes to Pd internals, see https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/849.

Hi,

here's a new bug fix release for [vstplugin~] - an external to load VST2 and VST3 plugins on all platforms. Please upgrade!

Binaries can be found on Deken (search for "vstplugin~") or here: https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/-/releases.

Most important changes/fixes:

• fix crash with bridging + multi-threading (regression introduced in v0.5.1)
• bridge/sandbox: allow to write large presets
• cmake: add NATIVE option for native code generation
• cmake: support Apple M1 + x86_64 plugin bridge (see the README for build instructions); no official binaries yet
• new update message, sent when several parameters have changed at once

Full change log: https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/-/releases

As always, please report any bugs at https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/-/issues

Have fun!

Christof

I guess there's no other way.

Here is the PR: https://git.iem.at/pd/comport/-/merge_requests/1

In the meantime, you can grab the following branch and build from source: https://git.iem.at/ressi/comport/-/tree/input-fix

Martin Peach (who wrote [comport])

[comport] has been written by Winfried Ritsch.

Funnily enough, someone else has already brought up this issue in the past (https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2019-05/125271.html) and I even came up with a fix, but then forgot to make a PR . I found the git branch with the fix on my laptop, so I can do that later this day. Will post a link to the PR here.

Hi,

here's a new bug fix release for [vstplugin~] - an external to load VST2 and VST3 plugins on all platforms:

Binaries can be found on Deken or here: https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/-/releases.

This release fixes a critical bug where [vstplugin~] would fix crash when switching samplerate or blocksize while a plugin is loaded. Even worse, Pd would also crash when loading a plugin with [loadbang] or as a creation argument at samplerates other than 44.1 kHz.

Please upgrade!

As always, please report any bugs at: https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/-/issues

Christof

Hi,

I am happy to announce a new bug fix release for [vstplugin~] - a Pd external for hosting VST2 and VST3 plugins on Windows, macOS and Linux.

It is available on Deken (search for "vstplugin~").

Here is the full change log: https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/-/releases

Please report any issues at https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/-/issues

Have fun!

Christof

Here is a bug fix release for [vstplugin~] v0.5 (see https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/13507/vstplugin-v0-5-0).

Binaries are available on Deken or can be downloaded here: https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/-/releases

If possible, please report any issues at https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/-/issues.

Changelog

bug fixes

• VST3: fix silent multibus output (when using automatic channel distribution)
• Linux: fix crash when opening the editor in a sandboxed/bridged Linux plugin
• macOS: don't filter by empty extension when looking for binaries in plugin bundles (a few plugins use extensions like .bin)

improvements

• Linux: suppress stdout/stderr when checking the wine command and the wine host processes
• VST3: disable unneeded auxiliary busses, but still enable all main busses (otherwise some plugins would crash)
• bridge: redirect logging output from subprocess to parent process (useful for debugging purposes!)