One of my customers keeps complaining about the names displayed in the Pro Tools insert slot. My plugins have names like “ValhallaShimmer” and “ValhallaRoom,” both of which show up as “valh.” Any recommendations of what I can change to get a better name displayed in there?
You can specify several names in the same string for your RTAS plugins (separated with ‘\n’), of different lengths. Look at the examples in the Digidesign SDK.
@Valhalla: you might need to adapt the RTAS Wrapper to add your own short names. You can add another line in the JucePluginCharacteristics.h file and use it in the wrapper when describing your plugin.
[quote=“Franky47”]You can also declare a JucePlugin_Name_Shorts which would be like “Analog Lab\nAnlgLab\nLab\nAL” and add it to the second part of the RTAS name: