Dimension Pro - 'Error' Message: "Multisample Not Found"

same problem in rapture le with some of the patches I downloaded from patch arena. I had to also reinstall DP after reinstalling sonar which meant reinstalling expansion packs etc.. and I found a file on my C drive called multisamples which has duplicates of some of the dim pro multisample files and it even had DSF examples of rapture stuff which I moved to the Multisample file in rapture to get a lot of patches to work in rapture. Amazing a good article on this is not found in the knowledge base. There needs to be more info on how to use samples ie waves and SFZ files from one synth in each others files without duplicating the files in each others directory. Someone had a post here the other day about the old p5 wiki that had all kinds of helpful DP info up and another poster on here had created some rapture how to stuff as well. you think Cake would offer them a place to archive this info in their knowledge base somewhere.

Well - I do not have these packages, but I seem to remember from the free add-ons for Rapture I had to copy the multisamples in C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Rapture\Multisamples AND ALSO in C:\Program Files (x86)\Cakewalk\Rapture\Multisamples. Otherwise I get the same error as you describe. I also seem to remember I had to do the same thing for Dimension Pro. I guess it has something to do with internally wrong pointers to the sample directory in Dim Pro 32- and 64 bit. I do not guarantee this will solve your problem tough..

The program list that you have (that is the list of programs displayed in Dimension Pro's program browser window) is generated from a directory located by default at "C:\ProgramData\Cakewalk\Dimension Pro\Programs". What is likely happening is that there are DimPro programs (.prog files) in that folder which reference .sfz/.wav/.flac multisample files which are not available in your main Multisamples folder.  It is possible that your system might have two different multisample folders with mostly duplicate content with Dimension Pro trying to use the multisample folder that is missing the extra packs.
 
Try searching your various computer hard drives to see if there is a second location for multisamples for Dimension Pro.  If you find there are two you may need to make some adjustments to the registry entries used by DimPro.
 
Check to see where Dimension Pro is looking for its multisamples.  Do this by opening the Windows registry editor and then drill down to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cakewalk Music Software\dp" in the left-side tree navigation window pane.  In the right pane, find the entry named "Multisamples Folder" and check its value.  The value should be the fully qualified path name to the parent folder containing your Multisamples folder.  I have a Windows 7 Pro x64 CORE i7 system similar to yours and I used the default options when installing Dimension Pro 1.5 which resulted in this path for that registry value:  "C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Dimension Pro".  Dimension Pro's actual mutlisamples are found within the folder hierarchy "C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Dimension Pro\Multisamples".  If you end up editing this registry value, make sure not to include the actual "Multisamples" folder in the path--it must be the parent folder containing the "Multisamples" folder.
 
 

Steve,
 
On 64-bit Windows you can definitely have both 32-bit and 64-bit application software (like Dim Pro) installed at the same time.  Both versions think they are reading from the registry at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cakewalk Music Software\dp", but 64-bit Windows actually has two different registry paths (one for 64 bit apps and another for 32 bit apps) and transparently redirects 32-bit applications to a slightly different path (but the 32-bit application doesn't know this). 
 
So, if you have/had both 32-bit Dim Pro and 64-bit Dim Pro installed then there will actually be two sets of registry values as follows:
 
64-bit Dim Pro:  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cakewalk Music Software\dp
 
32-bit Dim Pro:  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Cakewalk Music Software\dp

 
@ Bob - I looked in there and the same folder is listed: C:\Program Files (x86)\Cakewalk\Dimension Pro
 
@ Dave - Thanks, I tried that, but to no effect I'm afraid.

Thanks Steve.

It's been so long (and I'm getting on a bit) I can't remember where I got those DSF packs from. Are they on the disc or do I download them?

I think the DSF Symphonic Strings HD is the X2 promo download.

Can anyone remember where we originally got these particular DSF samples from?

Were they available to download, and does anyone know if they are still available?

Or were they on an installation disc perhaps?

No mate, I just installed over the top of it.

To be honest, as you know, I'm not good with this sort of stuff

Will I need to remove the X2 freebie Strings stuff and reinstall them too?

Try manually loading in the sfz/wav files (tho this can be a pain in time if you have a lot) and then resaving the prog.  It should point to the right place.  I had to do this with some prog files that used some 3rd party wav/sfz files.

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Do you have this directory?

Aha, Your entire 99 directory is missing.

Also missing Hollywood Edge FX which came with 8 Producer. Didn't Vintage Sound Library also come with 8? It may be that the newer versions don't include them. I can't say. When I installed on my new machine, I merged old stuff with new install. The DSF stuff is different though. Not only, not part of a regular DimPro install but the multisample directories do not contain sample info, they contain programs.

The last three entries, the ones that end .001, .002, .003 look like part of an interrupted install.

Your store account shows 8 Producer and Studio. Are you saying you only have the Studio disks? The producer would have a separate disk with DimPro on it.

@ Steve - I have both SONAR 8 Studio and Producer discs. I'm off to find them all in the attic now.

@ Bill - I've always had Win7 64 on this PC, but I have in the past installed both the 32 bit and the 64 bit versions of Dim Pro - would that explain why I have a Dim Pro folder in Programs and in Programs x86?