Two VI interface questions

[MichaelGShapiro]

I recently purchased my first Vienna Instrument, the Appassionata Strings. I have two questions about the VI user interface:

1) When used as an AU plugin in Logic, summoning up the VI interface first produces a small "meta-window" which has to be clicked again to produce the actual VI interface. Is there any way to bypass this extra step and summon up the VI interface directly?

2) Is there a way to have VI open on a particular interface screen/page? I almost always go straight to Patch Assign, and it would be nice to have that be the default.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Mike

[jrslam]

Curiously, I was just about to post this same question. The extra window is fine for re-opening the main interface if it gets hidden behind a sequencer screen, but seems to be a time waster for the initial opening. It would be great to have the main UI open immediately, or at least set it as a pref.

I'd like to add a third question. When we re-open an already assigned VI, why does it open to a collapsed file tree? I find myself digging through the hierarchy twenty times during a session to change something. It's fine to open that way with a new instrument, but once an instrument is assigned, I'd like to pick up where I left off when I re-open the interface. I never take a string patch and then change it to a tuba. I might however change to a basic from a performance patch of the same instrument.

James

[MichaelGShapiro]

@jrslam said:

I'd like to add a third question. When we re-open an already assigned VI, why does it open to a collapsed file tree? I find myself digging through the hierarchy twenty times during a session to change something. s

That's a great question, and it might warrant its own post so that it doesn't get lost if nobody responds to mine.