kevinwal

jbraner

but it's so easily fixed -

Man, I just blew my coffee out through my nose. Creating a Windows installer, easy. lol.
 

I don't know how to program, but I was a beta tester for some software, and the biggest thing before a release was trying to get the install correct for so many different versions of Windows. What fixed something in one version, broke it for another. It was just round and round.....

Believe this, it ain't easy!!

Compromises have to be made.

It's always a mighty pain to get installers right what with customers demanding that you not dump files in random locations and all.

mudgel

rcklln
Thanks scook
 
I'll need to start reading the update documentation more fully. Wish it was easier for those of us with pre-CCC installations.

What's a pre-CCC installer? Do you mean X3, or installing the current versions without the use of CCC.

Instruments and FX that I previously installed with X3, X2, etc. My command center is mostly red since I also already had AD2 and Melodyne Editor installed and don't need loop content.
 
I downloaded the Boutique FX Suite from my account and ran it but it didn't prompt me for location.

Because a few of the plugins have been updated the installer has been updated too so it reflects the new paradigm. Older installers should still work the old way.
With the CCC update that's coming you will have to run the installers and select specific locations.

I've gotten around it by creating links between the default installation locations and where I want them to be. I. An just run CCC and everything ends up where I want it.

You do know that you can use the manual installer that gives you all the options as per previous installers.

That's the whole point. I ran the manual installer and it *DID NOT* give any options. It installed everything to "C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Vstplugins". (which isn't where I want thme)
 
I'm not saying that building installers is easy - but up to now, *all the installers* gave us the opportunity to specify which plugins to install (by ticking a box) where to install them. Surely it was more work to change the installers from the way they used to do things (?) ;-)
 

I've gotten around it by creating links between the default installation locations and where I want them to be. I. An just run CCC and everything ends up where I want it.

That's way too much work to get around the "idiot proof" installers ;-)

jbraner

You do know that you can use the manual installer that gives you all the options as per previous installers.

That's the whole point. I ran the manual installer and it *DID NOT* give any options. It installed everything to "C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Vstplugins". (which isn't where I want thme)

Maybe I'm missing something, but can't you just install via the CCC after specifying the plug-in path in the System menu?

Yeah - but I wanted to tell it *where* to install the plugins. I thought that was the whole point of installing manually. I also thought maybe you could pick which FX from the suite - that you want to install - but no, you get no choices.
 
so there is no difference between using CCC and installing manually - except CCC actually lets you choose the install path.
 
What if you don't want to install one of the plugins from the suite? (like a "full" copy rather than the "Cakewalk" version)

jbraner

You do know that you can use the manual installer that gives you all the options as per previous installers.

That's the whole point. I ran the manual installer and it *DID NOT* give any options. It installed everything to "C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Vstplugins". (which isn't where I want thme)
 
I'm not saying that building installers is easy - but up to now, *all the installers* gave us the opportunity to specify which plugins to install (by ticking a box) where to install them. Surely it was more work to change the installers from the way they used to do things (?) ;-)
 

I've gotten around it by creating links between the default installation locations and where I want them to be. I. An just run CCC and everything ends up where I want it.

That's way too much work to get around the "idiot proof" installers ;-)

A couple of lines of text in notepad, copy and paste into cmd line. Done. I don't have to worry about the installers and don't have my C drive cluttered with stuff I don't want there. Nice and clean.

That's fair enough mudgel - but a lot of "normal" users aren't going to be happy playing around with setting up links

Yep I know. I'm just looking for solutions where i can. Alternatively I could complain what Cakewlak isn't doing and wait till they do. This way I have my solution independent of what Cakewalk does.