[ardour-dev] Mantis 0001138

[Jesse Chappell]

On 3/27/06, Thomas Vecchione <seablaede at gmail.com> wrote:

> The cause is pretty basic actually, it is caused by the demo version of
> a VST or other plug-in on a system expiring, when Ardour opens it tries
> to load that VST and thus the error is caused, I have actually had to
> remove demo VSTs before that werent expired due to control issues
> between that dialog(Which is Cocoa I believe) and X on a Mac because I
> couldnt close the dialog and as a result Ardour wouldn't continue to open.

This is one reason we don't ship the latest OS X releases with the VST
enabler anymore.  Too many people have plugins that totally mess
ardour up (on startup or otherwise).

jlc