I am currently playing with a simple setup that loads four piano instrument VSTs: Ivory II, TruePianos, Pianoteq 5 and Ravenscroft 275 via the UVI Workstation VST. I have four simple states that just switch which VST gets the MIDI input and which single VST is on.
These states work great between the first three VSTs mentioned. But when I add the fourth, the UVI Workstation/Ravenscroft 275, there is a small problem. Hitting the UVI state switches both the input and the output to UVI properly every time. But when thereafter I switch to either the Ivory II or the Pianoteq 5 state the UVI VST does not turn off. Oddly enough, it does turn off when I switch from UVI to Truepianos.
Hi Norm,
It sounds like a states behavior thing. Check each vsti piano by selecting it and checking to make sure the Run/Bypass states behavior box is checked (enabled). To see them you must select song states tab, it will be at the bottom of the states list. If not there check the view menu and select if needed. The run/bypass box should be checked for all of the different piano plugins.
Hope this helps.
Can you post a screen shot of the 2 plugin uvi / ivory setup routing screen with all expanded to see. I’m trying to replicate the problem. I have ivory and uvi ravenscroft and they seem to work here (set up as 2 simple plugins with 2 states to switch between them), so I might be missing something.
Thanks for these suggestions. I tried the second option here, and with one amendment, it worked.
Switching from UVI to any other the other plugins also Xed out the UVI Output port. So going through all the UVI + other VST combinations, in each case correcting UVI and saving the state of BOTH of them tamed the issue.
But of course this does mean that UVI still has to be addressed differently than the other three VSTs I was using in Cantabile, inasmuch as no such procedure was required to seamlessly switch states between these other three after each of their states was set up.