I can't find BFD...

I asked up stairs but I'm not getting any takers. I've attempted scanning but I think I'm doing something wrong. It was right there in X1. Can you guys help? Thanks.

I don't own a sofa. :-(

Beepster


I don't own a sofa. :-(

I'm sorry. Me and my big mouth.
Commiserations.
 
 
Have you looked in the top drawer in the kitchen?

I'm having a hard time pinpointing where it is and the scan tool is confusing the heck out of me. This seems unnecessarily complicated. I'm pretty danged sure when I installed Eco it tossed the main program into the Cakewalk VST folders but trying to dig through mess is needle in a haystack levels of infuriating.

Thanks, Julibee... I THINK I've found where it is (My Docs > FXpansion) but when I add that folder and press the scan button nothing comes up in the browser. I tried clicking OK then closing X2 to see if that was the right way to do it but nope. I'm just screwing this up somehow. I dug through the Garrigus book and couldn't find anything and the X2 help file on this is just confusing. Maybe I'll just stare at that help file until it sinks in. This should not be this difficult.

daryl1968


ok, sorry to be an arse before.
When you have done all the scans etc, where are you looking for it?

I mean, are you going straight back to the project and trying to add BFD somewhere from a list?

I think I've got it figured out guys. I was looking in the wrong places but there was no way for me to know where to look so I uninstalled BFD and watched where it installed, pointed to that folder, scan and I got BFD 32 bit. I wanted 64 bit but I think I screwed up the BFD install so I'm about to try again. Making a bleeding mess of my computer too. I'm gonna wiping the system at some point anyway so I guess it doesn't matter. Cheers and thanks.

Thanks, bapu. I just put myself through a crash course in VST scanning. I got it sorted now but I've got to reinstall Eco again because I think I forgot to check off the 64 bit version. I also have a doubled up content folder on my E drive and I'm about to have a third. I guess I should just delete those folders before reinstalling. This is the type of stuff that REALLY annoys me about DAWs. Should not be this complex. Cheers.

Beepster


Thanks, bapu. I just put myself through a crash course in VST scanning. I got it sorted now but I've got to reinstall Eco again because I think I forgot to check off the 64 bit version. I also have a doubled up content folder on my E drive and I'm about to have a third. I guess I should just delete those folders before reinstalling. This is the type of stuff that REALLY annoys me about DAWs. Should not be this complex. Cheers.

WHAT??!!??


I have 32 and 64 bit BFD2 on my system and the only use one instance of the content. Samples are NOT bit-rate bound to the vsti (32bit vs 64bit plug).


If you mean double the content because of BFD2 and Eco, that different. Yes they are different content folders and IIRC they are not really interchangeable.


HTH.

Do recognize that I no longer have Eco installed. The above was just an "example". But it was real when there were only 32bit versions. Then I had Eco and BFD2 both installed.

NP

I figured it out. I just posted this in my thread up stairs but it was a team effort between this thread and that one to educate ole Beepster so I'm gonna paster my solution and thanks here as well... seriously thanks guys:


Holy bleeping jebus poop crackers! It turns out I had NOT solved the problem and spent the past hour trying to figure it out. It turns out BFD Eco just throws itself willy nilly all over the darned C drive... AND there is an issue where unless you have the latest update from august it sometimes won't show up in the host at all even if you do manage to find all the files.

So first I reinstalled BFD. Then I made sure I had the latest update (Version 1.5.1.5) from my FXpansion account. As I installed that update I wrote down every one of the install paths. Here they are... tell me if this makes ANY kind of sense...



VST Plugin Path (32 Bit) = C:\Program Files(x86)\VSTPlugins

App Path (32 Bit) = C:\Program Files(x86)\FXpansion\BFD Eco

VST Path (64 Bit) = C:\Program Files\Common Files\Steinberg\VST2

App Path (64 Bit) = C:\Program Files\FXpansion\BFD Eco


It's in completely different folders! So I added all those to the Sonar VST scan thingy, checked off the ReScan options and let it do its thing. I figure this HAS to work. Well I didn't see anything implying BFD 64 bit in my browser BUT there was a new option that simply said BFD Eco. I inserted that into the track view and clicked the little question mark options button in the BFD GUI, went to the About option and SUCCESS! It was telling me that it was the 64 bit version.

I'm pretty mad I wasted my afternoon screwing around with this but at least I know FAR more about how to use the VST scanner (of which I knew NOTHING before today) and I can use BFD 64 bit. What I DON'T get is why I could see it in X1 after a relatively easy install but it turned into this enormous screw around in X2. Obviously this isn't a Sonar issue but the help menu entry on the scanner was no help at all. You wouldn't be able to understand it unless you already knew how to use it. It IS however a really bad default installation which is on FXpansion. We're not all computer geniuses yanno?

Anyway... my anger and frustration is subsiding now and I'm glad it worked out in the end. You guys, as usual, totally saved my sorry arse and I thank you profusely. Cheers.

Also in my rage I managed to delete the Rock Legends kit which is now reinstalled. As usual anger helped nothing and only made things worse. Calm blue ocean, calm blue ocean, calm blue ocean... ;-)