Element-FX vst3 being recognized only as an 'Instrument' in Cubase instead of an 'FX'

[Sinewave3]

Howdy!

So this is weird, I installed Element 0.46 to test out in Cubase. It loaded fine and everything and so I made a test patch and saved it...

Then when I re-opened it, it opened the session but the connections between nodes were not recalled, which meant I'd need to manually redo all nodal connections, tiresome and clearly a bug. I also recreated this in the standalone windows version.

So, in an effort to troubleshoot, I saw that you put nightly builds of the latest Element up, so then I went and installed the latest version of Element (v0.47.0_r479). Low and behold, it opens (in the standalone windows app) and it shows all nodes connect correctly when recalling the session I had created (yay!).

However, when I re-opened Cubase, it then re-scanned the vst3 plugins and somehow removed Element from the VST3 FX category and now it shows up in Cubase as a VST3 Instrument.

For some strange reason now it only recognizes both versions of Element as instruments in Cubase (or at least that's how they show up in VST Plug-in Manager in Cubase).

I have an instance of Element open in Cubase in this test project, so I can still copy and paste it as an effect plugin to other channels, and it shows as an insert called 'Element', but I can't find it anywhere in my vst3 folder nor does it show up in scanning for new added VST3s.

[mfisher31]

That's odd. Haven't seen one like this in a long time. Thanks for the report. Heads up, I copied the issue over to GitLab: https://gitlab.com/kushview/element/-/issues/566

.... In the process of moving technical happenings there and leaving github for the social aspect!