[RWP] Interesting information.

[Jes]

My God, and to think I was gonna ask my wife to get this for me for our 
aniversery! What an inaccessible load of crap! No matter how realistic 
and great Pianoteq is, Modartt has a lot of work to do before they get 
any of my business.

Original message:
> Hi Gang:
> For those who have been following my Pianoteq 5 issues, I received a 
> post from a Pianoteq 5 owner on the Reaper forum.
> I guess my question is, how does one increase the number of presets 
> that can be access via Reaper natively.
> There is no way to do that as far as I know. However, to my knowledge, 
> there are two methods of reporting presets from the plugin to the host. 
> The first one is reporting only the current state of the plugin (so, 
> one preset only), the second method is reporting all of the presets 
> that the plugin has, which then allows the host to swap between them 
> via MIDI Program Changes etc. For example, the free Synth1 plugin has 
> implemented both of these behaviours so the user can choose which one 
> he wants to use. I have over 9000 presets for Synth1, and they are all 
> properly reported to Reaper, and Reaper shows them in its native 
> dropdown menu all correctly.

> So, this is up to Modartt to fix, I would say.

> By the way, what I see here is that Reaper shows only the currently 
> selected Pianoteq preset, and a list of 31 more preset from various 
> other models (depending on which Pianoteq add-ons you have installed... 
> I have all of them, so it gives me randomly some presets from C3, 
> Pleyel, Erard, Bechstein, CP-80, etc.). I think this is some wonky 
> behaviour Modartt should definitely fix.
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