Turn off dx plugin support

by **Muse** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:43 am

I could really do with a way to turn off scan/support for dx plugins - all the other plugin menus are nicely sorted but the dx one is an unsorted mess that blocks all the others when I scroll down the menu.

by **Richard** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:59 am

Does anyone still use DX effects? I wouldn't mind to drop DX at some point, however not in the Cubase way of dropping it entirely, but just to drop the menus so that old projects still load & work fine.

by **Marcin** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:14 am

I use few DX effects, mainly:
- Synapse Vocoder
- MIDIout
- DreamStation
- few effects installed with Sound Forge

Checkbox "Use DX plugins" in options would be better for everyone than dropping it from menu.

by **Muse** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:15 am

Yeah - just a tick box to enable/disable in preferences would be fine - I don't use them but some came with other stuff like Sonar so I don't want to just disable them on a system level, just remove the annoying menu

by **Icaro** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 12:11 pm

Totally agree. Some of the DX fx that came with soundforge are cool. An option to turn off DX would be the best.

by **bones** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 12:24 pm

Why not just ignore them? That's served me well these many years past.

by **Muse** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 12:43 pm

Because as I said they sit between the Rewire and other plugins on the menu but because they aren't sorted into menus like the VST plugins scrolling down the insert menu often leads to the DX menu blocking all the others and its a pain - I have to try and keep the insert menu open but sort of go around the DX bit which take a fair amount of hand/eye coordination.

by **T-Breaks** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 3:54 pm

Richard wrote:Does anyone still use DX effects? I wouldn't mind to drop DX at some point, however not in the Cubase way of dropping it entirely, but just to drop the menus so that old projects still load & work fine.

I am using directx plugins, please don't remove them.

by **draft_730** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 5:13 pm

i still use the sonar DXi plugins, plz plz plz dont remove them

by **draft_730** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 5:30 pm

-intro-one- wrote:I use few DX effects
- MIDIout

do u mean the orion midi out generator or do u have a seperat nice lil dx plug for midi out?
i would be very interested in, if that is the case so maybe u can tell me

tnx

by **Dungeon Studio** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 5:43 pm

Did Cubase entirely drop DX? Holy crap! Anyone with Waves plugs would be surely pissed! :superlol: I try to avoid using DX in Orion for some reason. Mastering with Wavelab I can't live without them. But I don't know why the aversion to DX when it comes to OP? I think it was Synth1 and some other things that actually worked better in OP than their VST counterparts. And then there's Analog X stuff - essential DX freebies to this day. They've saved me in a pinch. Hate to think I was on Cubase and couldn't get at those either.

But I hate the fact how DX things really ingrain themselves into a users system and registry. Great if they're good - but I refuse to try DX demos anymore, as I can never seem to remove them fully.

by **Kriminal** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 6:04 pm

Waves is VST now too, has been since V5 i think (im pretty sure its dodgy tho, the Waves VST Shell is anyway)

by **Kriminal** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 6:05 pm

you cant automate DX stuff anyway can you?

by **HYPNAGOGIA** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 6:13 pm

Kriminal wrote:you cant automate DX stuff anyway can you?

Not that I know.... so, if anyone asks, my answer to that is nope :hihi:

by **Marcin** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:54 am

draft_730 wrote:
-intro-one- wrote:I use few DX effects
- MIDIout

do u mean the orion midi out generator or do u have a seperat nice lil dx plug for midi out?
i would be very interested in, if that is the case so maybe u can tell me

tnx

I mean this one:
http://www.cakewalk.com/download/RGC_MIDIout.exe

You can draw every midi CC's and send to output device (I use it for controlling the ReBirth mainly).

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