Re:Little Late to the Party - Dimension and Dimension LE Installation Tips
2010/01/22 10:41:06
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I've kind of gone through a similar process shifting from P5 to S8.5 with DimLE but without a satisfactory result so far. I originally had DimLE installed by P5 V2.5 DL which set it up as a DXi. This then worked with the existing device chains, etc for it. But with EOL for P5, I shifted to S8.0 and then S8.5. While most of the earlier P5 instruments and effects shifted fairly well, DimLE has been a problem as Sonar invalidated the P5 version ( which now claims to be a demo only version ). While I can still manually load the S8 VST version of the DimLE, my device chains are now all broken as they look for the DXi. Of course, there was also some setting up of paths, etc to my programs for S8-DimLE and a re-install of the Proteus presets I got for it.
Anyone know how to disable the DXi version from the P5 install ( demo version only now ), much less get the Sonar version of DimLE installed to transparently replace it in Sonar and P5 ? Actually, there's a bunch of old P5 stuff that got reset as demo's that I'd like to get out the DXi list. And while I'm on a rant, one of my CW 'utils' converted dozens of VST's to DXi interfaces further cluttering my registry. A clean-up suggestions would be appreciated, though the DimLE is the most functionally distressing.
This is the DL version upgrade of 8 and 8.5. I tried the selective re-install for just the DimLE instrument but no joy, though I may be missing something in the instructions. Frankly, I prefer the VST's over the DXi's just to avoid having to muck with the WinDoze registry ( Vista-32 ) to sort things like this out.
No, I'm not going to do another re-install of P5 at this point in my life ( particularly without understanding what may happen to S8 ).