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Brainworx bx_masterdesk gui notworkin in Ardour/Mixbus and not loading in Bitwig #44

Closed lentferj closed 6 years ago

lentferj commented 6 years ago

I tried to load the demo version of Brainworx Masterdesk plugin into Ardour and Mixbus. There is load, but looks very strange - and is practically unusable. Bitwig scans the plugin, but hangs on the scan.

A demo version is available here after registration: https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/bx_masterdesk.html

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osxmidi commented 6 years ago

I've tried it out (LinVst embedded and standalone) and it seems to be Wine that's doing it.

I tried using a gdiplus.dll override but that did nothing.

The list of dll's it uses are

ADVAPI32.dll COMDLG32.dll GDI32.dll KERNEL32.dll MSVCP140.dll SHELL32.dll SHLWAPI.dll USER32.dll VCRUNTIME140.dll VERSION.dll WININET.dll api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll api-ms-win-crt-filesystem-l1-1-0.dll api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.dll api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0.dll api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0.dll api-ms-win-crt-utility-l1-1-0.dll gdiplus.dll ole32.dll

lentferj commented 6 years ago

Did your latest changes make it work?

tnafele commented 5 years ago

Any update on PA plugins? I tried two of them... They actually work fine except of the missing knobs. Could this also be an issue with d2d1.dll? I tried to install a native one, but I don't know which version would be needed. The few I tried made the GUI crash.

------ a few hours later ----- I tested a lot. IMHO it's an issue with the built in d2d1.dll. The PA plugins seem to load it at runtime. When I disable d2d1 then I also have the knobs on a pile like the OP's screenshot, and the GUI is much too big. With built-in DLL, some knobs are missing. I also switched d3d10 and d3d11 to native. But the latter makes it crash. So the plugin "works" with native d3d10 and WINEs d3d11 and d2d1. Or no d2d1 at all. I wonder why the plugin loads d2d1 at runtime also works more or less without d2d1. Does this mean that it uses some fallback when Direct2D is not available? If we knew what it uses as fallback, then maybe we could replace those DLLs with the native ones. At least as long as the built in d2d1 lacks of certain functionality.

P.S: I have no idea if someone reads this here... A Wiki or Forum would be great where users can post successful plugin wrapping...