I’ve encountered an issue with my audio plugin development process and need assistance. I’ve established a template project to streamline the creation of new plugins. However, after duplicating this template for two separate VSTs, both appear identical in my DAW, despite having distinct names. In FL Studio, they show up as three different plugins, but all seem to be the same project. I suspect this may be due to not altering a unique identifier for the VST3, but my efforts to locate such an ID have been fruitless. Adjusting the PluginCode and ManufacturerCode did not resolve the issue. Could anyone guide me on how to ensure each plugin is recognized uniquely by the DAW?
I have run into this issue a few times and in my case it was because I didn’t properly change the PLUGIN_CODE setting in my CMakeList.txt, and also forgot to re-run the CMake configuration after giving each of my plugin projects unique values. So, standard advice applies: make sure PLUGIN_CODE is truly unique to each plugin, blow away any previous builds, be very sure you don’t have stale previous builds of the plugins laying around cached, re-load the CMake file (or the equivalent for the Projucer methodology), and see if that smooths things out …