Connection problems in Sonobus VST (Reaper DAW)

[Kristian E]

I am working with two systems in a local network, basically two laptops both running Reaper and SonoBus as a plugin. When used as a plugin, SonoBus won't allow to start a private group session with my own IP (connection server format "IP:Port") which works fine in the standalone app. Anybody got a clue why?

Versions:
macOS Catalina 10.15.7
SonoBus v1.6.2
Reaper v6.77

[Jesse Chappell]

The issue here is that only the standalone version runs a local connection server, the plugins do not. So the simple solution for you is just to start a standalone application on one machine and just let it sit there, its only purpose providing the connection server for the reaper/plugin setups to function with private groups.

[Kristian E]

Thanks for the quick answer!