Installing plugins is still hard for new producers

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I've been sitting behind a relatively newbie friend tasked with installing a plugin with a Dplug installer.

Some aspects of installing that were hard were:

• [ ] Ugly green on black colors, do it more like REAPER installer (black on white).
• [x] first there is no understanding that VST in reaper means "VST2". So after installing the VST3, the user might search for it in "VST" category => well that's a REAPER or Ableton issue
• [ ] no conceptual distinction between the unzipped package and the plugin itself. The user tries to unpack the ZIP inside her VST2 plugin folder, and then execute the installer from there. (whose VST2 will go in default folder) => well that should still work, if user points to right directory for matching install dir and DAW
  • [ ] installer ZIP should be called "Installer " probably
• [x] install 64-bit and 32-bit plugins in default VST2 folder without reading => kind of solved now that 32-bit plugins have disappeared, hopefully in Windows arm64 it will be fat binaries
• [x] doesn't manage to find the VST2 in C:\Program Files\VSTPlugins to move it to own VST2 folder after running the installer. User search in C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files (x86) and fails to find the plugin. => somewhat solved by the disappearance of VST2
• [x] is unaware of the difference between 64-bit and 32-bit plugins => kind of solved now that 32-bit plugins have disappeared
• [x] manages to install the VST3, but not the VST2
• [ ] really doesn't like the selection screen to select whether to install VST2 / VST3 / AAX. Think about giving up there!
• [x] doesn't know she can rescan plugins in REAPER, would restart the DAW instead
  • [ ] tell to "restart or rescan plugins" in the DAW

Also the installer:

• [x] doesn't say to close the DAW => now it does for VST2 and VST3

[p0nce]

Could InnoSetup help? probably not.

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MacOS Installer enhancement: allowing save presets in DP (see #606)