OPT/OMPS plugin support

[Geir Henningsen]

Hi all,

The OPT plugin format for MIDI device editors is old and probably forgotten by most. While very handy as a Recall tool, it never quite became the industry standard Yamaha was aiming for. It was integrated by Cakewalk into Sonar 2, and was still in place with my old Sonar 8 installation, although by then renamed OMPS for some reason.

I skipped the X1-X3 versions, and eventually got Platinum, but I think the OPT/OMPS menu option was gone at that point. It certainly seems to be missing in Cakewalk by BandLab, so I'm wondering:

Could anybody shed some light on when (and possibly why) OPT/OMPS plugin support was removed from the codebase? Did the technology become proprietary at some point (Steinberg Studio Connections), or simply impossible to maintain from a technical point of view? 

Best regards,

- G - 

Edited October 6, 2022 by Geir Henningsen

[msmcleod]

I was using it in SONAR Platinum with my 01X recently, but that was on a 32 bit build. 

OPT is COM based so it wouldn't surprise me if it was a 32 bit only technology.

Also, SONAR only ever supported OPT level 1, which was the first version that came out at around the time of SONAR 3.
 

[Geir Henningsen]

Aah, so it was only present in the 32-bit builds. That would make sense, thanks! ?

I'm mainly looking for a way to better integrate my Yamaha stuff with CbB, and found OPT to do wonders in that regard in the past. Seems like it has to be Studio Manager, then.

- G -