All audio plugins have two main identifiers that digital audio workstations (DAW) use for checking which plugin it’s working with. These are the plugin code and the plugin manufacturer code. Both are four characters and should (in theory) be unique for each plugin in existence.

In August 2022, I realized that my plugins, despite having a unique plugin code, still had a default value of “Manu” as the plugin manufacturer code. This didn’t affect their functionality, but I decided to change it to not risk any conflicts in the future. Better late than never, huh? This decision, however, unfortunately, meant that all projects out there still using the old versions could not load the new ones since DAWs would detect them as completely new plugins. On this page, I’ll explain this issue in more detail and show you how to get new versions up and running if you were previously using versions with the old manufacturer code.

The plugins influenced by this issue are SSF, Deelay, F(l)atter, and Clips, and the versions that got the new manufacturer code are the following:

SSF: 1.0.2
Deelay: 1.0.3
F(l)atter: 1.0.2
Clips: 1.0.2

If you are currently using earlier versions, I suggest finishing current projects containing the plugin before updating to a new version. This makes the updating process a little bit less cumbersome. You can still save all settings from current projects as presets if you need to load them later once the new version is installed (This is not unfortunately possible with SSF since it does not have a preset manager).