[Ardour-Users] Plugins referenced inappropriately by name?

[Paul Winkler]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 10:58:06PM +0300, Sampo Savolainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 15:42 -0400, Paul Winkler wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > forwarding this from ardour-dev, wondered if any other users had seen
> > problems like this.  For me the problem started when I upgraded the
> > CAPS plugin suite from 0.3 to 0.4.2 and suddenly old sessions cannot
> > load CAPS plugins.  AFAICT, the problem is with Ardour, not with CAPS.
> 
> I've fixed this issue somewhere in the 0.99.x series so that ardour
> stores the ladspa id's in the session files and finds the appropriate
> plugin using that id. If no id is available, ardour reverts to matching
> the name.
> 
> Sorry to tell you this, but you need to fix the session file either
> manually (rename plugin names or add id's), or revert back to 0.3 of
> CAPS and loading and saving the session with 0.99.3 .

Ahhh, I see, so my session was created with the old buggy version.  I
don't mind hacking the session file to replace names with IDs, this
should be easy.

Thanks :-)

-PW

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