Old 02-04-2019, 02:19 PM   #1
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Default ix plugins - duplicates (FIXED)

The "IX" plugins (or "IXix", or "ix", all names that are used as the author for these plugins sometimes) may have duplicates. Philip S. Considine (the "IX" himself) has a ReaPack repository located here:

https://github.com/IXix/JSFX/ (add "raw/master/index.xml" to the end of that URL and that's the ReaPack repo link.)

Some of his plugins that are included in Reaper have newer/updated versions there (as an example, one of these updated/bugfixed plugins is "Midi_Variant"). Plus there are more new plugins.

The folder "ix" in the "effects" folder (of the Reaper resource folder) has all the effects by him that are included in the Reaper install. If using ReaPack to install his plugins, it installs those plugins to a new folder named "IX" (all caps, so now there are two folders named "ix" and "IX" respectively, with different versions of some of the plugins). Descriptions (the descriptor tag in the JS effects) for the old versions installed with Reaper and also the new/updated versions of the plugins via this repo are the same. This means both of each effect (old/new) show up with the same name/description, duplicated in the effects browser. So, it's a good idea to remove the old versions that install with Reaper (which means deleting the "ix" folder). However every time I install an update to Reaper, it reinstalls all those old "ix" plugins. Those duplicates keep coming back.

I can't think of what might be the best possible method to resolve this, but I figured I should at least point this out.

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Old 02-27-2021, 09:23 PM   #2
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Fixing, we'll rename our dir to ix/ to be congruent with IX's reapack
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Old 02-28-2021, 05:55 AM   #3
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Some of the IX plugins in his repo are updated versions of the included plugins, and their names remain the same as the older (included) versions. So if you rename the included plugin directory to be the same as his Reapack directory, will that mean Reaper will install the included (older) plugins overtop whatever is in that directory (newer versions installed by Reapack)?
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Old 02-28-2021, 07:17 PM   #4
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Some of the IX plugins in his repo are updated versions of the included plugins, and their names remain the same as the older (included) versions. So if you rename the included plugin directory to be the same as his Reapack directory, will that mean Reaper will install the included (older) plugins overtop whatever is in that directory (newer versions installed by Reapack)?
Yes, though at least it's consistent with OSes that have case insensitive filesystems? :/
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Old 02-28-2021, 09:35 PM   #5
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Lol well I didn't care about that so much. I don't want old IX plugins overwriting the new ones I explicitly install with ReaPack, every time I install a Reaper update. I imagine it might annoy others, too. That's why I said "I can't think of what might be the best possible method to resolve this", since making the stock IX directory the same as what's installed via ReaPack replaces the potential duplicate problem with a potential version problem.

I'll keep using my script, I guess, which I consider "step 2" of a Reaper install. It deletes the IX plugins (prior to starting Reaper) and also the stock preset file for ReaComp (since I find the stock presets just get in my way).
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Old 03-01-2021, 04:15 AM   #6
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Sorry! I suck at being a dev.
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