dimension pro installation confusion

I had P5 v2 installed and forgot all about Dimension LE.

Then I installed P5 v2.5 over that - no problem of course.

Then I finally installed Dimension Pro which I bought months ago.

Finally, I saw that there is an update for Dimension and two new sample packs, and installed them.

Now when I go to select many of the presets I get a message saying that a particular .sfz file(s) or multisample can't be found.

What should I do at this point - uninstall everything and start over??

I looked in the Cakewalk directory and found the Dimension LE and Dimension folders in the shared DXi folder. Dimension Pro has its own folder in the Cakewalk folder.

Is there a way to move and/or delete things so that the complete and updated sample set is recognized?

Thanks for any help untangling this mess

Harvey

dimension le - v 1.2.0.69

dimension - v 1.0.1.9

dimension pro - v 1.2.0.214


it looks like the update didn't reach the two "lesser" versions of dimension.

should i uninstall everything at this point?

i could de-select dimension le when installing the updated P5 v2.5.

maybe that would have worked, but there's still the original dimension installed with P 5v2.0.

maybe i should uninstall P5 as well and re-install v2.0 and v2.5 with dimension de-selected both times and then go and install dimension pro and its updates.

does that see like it would work?

harvey

I don't know that it's necessary to uninstall P5V2. I believe Dimension can be uninstalled by itself, but to get everything right, you're probably going to have to uninstall both Dimension and Dimension Pro, then install DimPro by itself.

Next time you reinstall P5V2 (if you do), don't install Dimension, there's a separate prompt for that.

Doug

I uninstalled Dimension by itself at one point - I don't remember whether it was a separate add/remove programs entry, or whether there was an "unins...exe" program that did it in the Dimension directory.

I never re-installed Dimension after I installed DimPro, so I don't remember it real well now...

Doug

ORIGINAL: techead

It's been some time ago but I think I uninstalled Project5 V2's Dimension before I installed Dimension Pro--as this was Nick Haddad's advice at the time. As I recall it was just simply listed as a separate software product from Project5 in the Windows Add/Remove Software control panel applet.

That sounds familiar - both how I did it, and the reason for doing it. I know that the original Dimension had a separate installer that the "main" P5V2 installer ran, so it makes sense that it put separate add/remove programs entries.

Doug

TweakDimension can change the registry entry for Dimension.

The actual registry key is:
My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cakewalk Music Software\Dimension Pro\Multisamples Folder

(there's also one for Dimension, Dimension LE, and Rapture)

With the new Vista-compatible scheme, I'm not sure if it stays under HKLM or HKEY_CURRENT_USER ...

Doug

ORIGINAL: music4all
That sounds ideal, but where can TweakDimension be found? I don't see it in the support area on CW's website.

Harvey, tweakDimension is a program that I wrote to help with modifying the registry entry without having to actually edit the registry. It was originally designed in response to a lot of problems people were having with external USB drives getting their drive letters changed on them in Windows XP. tweakDimension gave them an easy fix when that happened.

My website is offline at the moment, but if you send me an email via the private-messaging on these here Cakewalk forums I will email the file to you. I hope to have my website back online in the next few weeks--there have been quite a few people looking for tweakDimension while my website has been down.

Sincerely,

Bob Hammond (techead)

Harvey, I sent you the .zip file for tweakDimension this morning.

Have fun!

-Bob

ORIGINAL: music4all
The multisamples directory is obvious, but what is the contents folder?

Right now I have the the first entry set to the multisamples directory of Dimension Pro and the second entry set to the Dimension Pro directory itself, yet I'm having the same problem - no pink.wav, etc.

Harvey, here is a screen-shot of tweakDimension when run on my DAW. You can see how a default installation of Dimension Pro on my system sets the Multi-Samples and Content registry entries (they show up in the fields in tweakDimension when it first starts). What you need to do is locate the same folder names within the folder hierarchy of your system--if you installed Dimension Pro to a non-default alternate location then the folder may be a little different but you should still be able to find it. If not then something is not right about the Dimension Pro installation on your system and you might want to contact Cakewalk support for help.




Additional Note: tweakDimension version 0.2 (which is the latest release) does not yet detect Dimension LE. If you are using Dimension LE you will have to either update the registry entries manually using Windows Regedit or wait until the next version of tweakDimension is released which will add support for Dimension LE. See http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.asp?m=1056664 for the details.