carmen rocco:
it crashes quite easily, i think almost exclusively due to a mismatch of the specified # of in/outs vs the amount the plugin actualy wants to claim. plugin~ also loads VSTs, and somehow magically resizes to fit the plugins preferred io slots. i might try bringing this over to vst~ since otherwise it seems vastly more feature-complete (unless i missed a help file somewhere..)
k_vst~ is based on plugin~, and has about the same features as vst~. Perhaps you get what you want by compiling k_vst~ on windows. Don't think that should be very difficult, but I don't know about windows.