# BR: VST3 in Audition on Windows has no GUI

**URL:** <https://forum.juce.com/t/br-vst3-in-audition-on-windows-has-no-gui/48924>\
**Category:** Windows\
**Created:** [November 24, 2021, 9:08am UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/br-vst3-in-audition-on-windows-has-no-gui/48924 "2021-11-24T09:08:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 2, 2021, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/br-vst3-in-audition-on-windows-has-no-gui/48924/4 "2021-12-02T14:35:50Z")

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That isn’t what that line is doing - the check for Audition or Premiere is there to ensure that an editor is _always_ created in those hosts since there is a ref-counting bug which was previously causing editors to not be displayed. See this thread for more info:

> [@Bug report: VST3 in Adobe Audition has no GUI](https://forum.juce.com/t/bug-report-vst3-in-adobe-audition-has-no-gui/45642/5):
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> This is a bug in Audition where they are incorrectly incrementing the ref-count of the IPlugView\* that is returned from IEditController::createView(). When the object is released it doesn’t get deleted because it still has a reference count of 1 and, whilst this was masked in previous JUCE versions, [this commit](https://github.com/juce-framework/JUCE/commit/e0306d25d4c2939f26d1618dd27a488d0961a1ce) means that we no longer create multiple editors hence the blank GUI. We’ve added a workaround for Audition to develop here so the old behaviour will apply: I’ve submitted a bug report…

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