Reply To: Can’t see patches for Atmosphere or Stylus RMX

It seems a worrying growing number of high-quality plug-ins have their own built-in patch selectors and don’t announce the names of their patches to the host, some examples I checked out:

– Spectrasonics: Trilogy
– USB: Ultra Focus
(…based on these two and the the other Spectrasonics plugins Malcolm mentioned, it seems that any plugins using the UVI Engine (widely considered to be the best-sounding engine) don’t announce their settings)

– Arturia: Arp 2600, CS-80V, Minimoog, Moog Modular
(…so none of the Arturia ones either)

– Way Out Ware: TimewARP

– Native Instruments: Kontakt 2, Elektrik Piano, Battery 2

– Synthogy: Ivory
(…this one announces 32 programs for some reason (even though it has more), but none of them have names

– FXpansion: BFD
(…same kind of thing here, it announces only 2 programs, both unnamed, even though it has many more)

– Hollow Sun: Nostalgia
(…publishes no names, and is one of the many instruments that use the Intakt Player engine, so I’d bet the rest are the same)

– Wizoo: Latigo, Darbuka

I’m sure there’s many more. Only a few of the plug-ins I tested actually DO announce their program names, so that seems to be a part of the VST spec that’s widely ignored. It makes sense for some of them too, drum machines and effects processors are typically plug-ins that you whip up your own settings on the fly for one project and one project only, then never use that particular patch setting again. So maybe that invisible preset thing is more serious than any of us thought.