Bollen
Vintage Member
Ah! I was wondering what C-wave was on about, but then I realised that I use VE Pro to host everything so I hadn't noticed this issue...The whitelist is only needed for VST2 instruments and effects, not VST3 instruments and effects. Unfortunately most vendors have not yet updated to VST3.
So far the playback support has seemed ad hoc, incremental, inconsistent, incomplete, not well thought out and quite frankly broken. I'm concerned that they don't have someone with the deep understanding of what's needed as they obviously do with the notation side.
Although I totally support your feelings and conclusions I do not agree with your statement. Incomplete, hardly and broke most certainly not... I was already able to do quality mock-ups in version 2, as long as the instruments used didn't require velocity edits (I used transformers or other CCs for pitch bend). In version 3 I'll agree that it's a pain in the arse and everything else I mentioned in my review above, but you can certainly do everything! Which is nothing something that's possible on any other program in existence at the moment...
Dorico's play window is annoying, buggy, unintuitive, awful and badly designed, but it gets the job done, it doesn't crash (never had one), freeze or get weird on me, it's just really uncomfortable to work with... But it's been said already, it's a notation program first and considering the speed of improvements on that side, my guess is that they're leaving themselves space for future improvements. The DAW level of features is probably reserved for when they have completely overtaken all the other competitors in the notation market...