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DISTRHO / Cardinal

Virtual modular synthesizer plugin
https://cardinal.kx.studio/
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Manual move of CLAP Folder issue into "...Common Files\CLAP" #442

Closed cxbignekoc closed 1 year ago

cxbignekoc commented 1 year ago

Windows 10 Bitwig 4.4.3

My main CLAP Folder is C:\Program Files\Common Files\CLAP\...

But if i drop Cardinal.clap Folder into \CLAP

An Popup in Cardinal tell me:

System directory: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Cardinal does not exist.

That is true because it should be the CLAP Folder where to search.

Questions:

  1. I am not sure if the \CLAP Folder is the Windows Standard, but it works for me, i got some CLAP Plugins into it. If this is a Standard then Cardinal should search the .clap there.
  2. I can add the Cardinal Folder with ease, and it probably will work, but then every Developer will do the same that C:\Program Files\Common Files\ is the main CLAP Folder. And we need to add every Developer manually to the Plugin Folder in the DAW or the DAW search the whole Common File Folder...
falkTX commented 1 year ago

The final path should be alike C:\Program Files\Common Files\CLAP\Cardinal.clap\CardinalSynth.clap and this is according to CLAP specs (Cardinal only does a special thing with putting 3 plugins inside a single folder, but this is only for having them share the same "resources" folder).

The path C:\Program Files\Common Files\Cardinal is the fallback when the local resources folder does not exist (ie, alongside the plugin binary). Is this missing on CLAP builds?

falkTX commented 1 year ago

assuming things are working as intended, closing ticket