Open swesterfeld opened 4 months ago
Also it would be nice if there was a placeholder device at the location of the missing plugin in the device chain
I can see how that could be useful. Can you provide 2 or 3 screenshots of other DAWs providing this? or is there no prior art for this and we'd have to come up with something from scratch?
I used 3 DAWs, created a project with the SpectMorph plugin, closed the DAW, reopened the DAW and loaded the project again. Here is what happened.
Loads the project without error popup window, but inserts a place holder plugin in the effect chain. At also displays an error message at the bottom of the screen.
Clicking to that orange error message opens a popup window with details about the missing plugins.
Bitwig doesn't actively complain about missing plugins, however it inserts a placeholder plugin with the error message.
Reaper opens a popup window displaying the missing plugins. It also inserts a place holder in the effect chain (which would be the left side of the 2nd screenshot window.
Thanks for the background. Looks like this would be useful to split up:
When loading a project that contains a plugin that is not available, Anklang should give some form of feedback to the user. It could display a popup with a list of plugins that were missing for the project. Also it would be nice if there was a placeholder device at the location of the missing plugin in the device chain, and saving the project again would not discard the plugin state from the project.