eratu

mudgel


YOu probably have doen this already with respect to Dim Pro but just in case you haven't.

Did you edit the registry (ie make sure all references to Dim Pro were deleted) when you uninstalled before reinstalling?

Hi mudgel, thanks for the suggestion! I did NOT edit the registry after I uninstalled. It's possible that would have helped, I have no idea. However, I did use Cakewalk's uninstall procedure and I assumed it cleaned up after itself. An assumption that could be wrong, of course.

This is what I DID do: After every time I re-installed, I did check the registry to make sure the directory was correct. And each time it WAS correct. I even moved content around, changed the registry to the new directory, then tested, then changed everything back, tested, then uninstalled, then reinstalled, checked the directory and registry entries and they were correct again. So I think in a roundabout way I covered this base that you are suggesting. I had checked the registry many times during the whole process. But just not in between installations. In the end, when I installed (and uninstalled) the 32-bit version of Dim Pro, it worked fine with BitBridge... all the audio files were found. And now, currently, I just have the 32-bit version of the VSTi working without a problem, same directory as before, but just the 32-bit version works. x64 didn't. No strangeness in the registry that I can see, unless there is something else hidden I didn't see. Hope that makes sense.

Did you press F5 to refresh the sample directory in Dimension Pro? 
 
Sometimes it is necesary to delete the program.lst file inside the Dimension Pro Programs folder when moving samples.  Then pressing F5 on the Dimension Pro sample directory to refresh it.  Did you try that?

Sorry my friend :-P

I guess I'm just too excited here :-)  I'll be patient.

UPDATE from FabFilter:

Yay!!!! The ball is moving forward!!! See below....

Hi James,

Thanks for this information! We're starting work on the 64bit versions of our plug-ins soon, so that should solve these problems...

In the mean time, we will try to test with BitBridge and JBridge ourselves, and see what might be causing these problems... We'll keep you updated!

Cheers,
Floris (FabFilter)

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Good news indeed. Let's hope they move to x64 right away. :)

Update:

Just heard back from Cakewalk re: FabFilter so we've got some positive momentum going. Good people to deal with, I'm feeling reassured that between FabFilter, Cakewalk and JBridge we'll get the FabFilter situation sorted out. :)

Hats off to the quick and professional responses from all these guys. Again, I can't agree more, that we need to support companies like these.

Thanks, Phoenix! I will definitely be looking more into it! For now, at least, I have Dim Pro 32-bit up and running fine with BitBridge.

UPDATE:

Now I'm up and running with all the Camel Audio plugins. Seem to work just fine with BitBridge 2.0 so far. :)

Eratu - a poster named Tyacko in a thread called "Will you be switching to Windows 7" said his DimPro couldn't find the presets
He said he got a solution in the documentation of the DimPro section on the Cakewalk site


Don't know if that's your problem but FWIW

brammer


Eratu - a poster named Tyacko in a thread called "Will you be switching to Windows 7" said his DimPro couldn't find the presets
He said he got a solution in the documentation of the DimPro section on the Cakewalk site


Don't know if that's your problem but FWIW

Very cool... checking this out now... could be that I have to run Sonar x64 in Administrator mode.... that would explain why I couldn't access the x64 VSTi. Hmmmmm... This may be the solution. Will try this later... but will post links here for reference:

http://www.cakewalk.com/s...eader.aspx?ID=20080921

And then I just read this:

http://www.cakewalk.com/s...eader.aspx?ID=20081008

At the bottom is says this:

"Note:If you have your Multisamples folder set to any directory other than the default installation path you will need to move it as well into Dimension Pro's installation folder or the synth will fail to load programs correctly."

Now that is just not nice, if you ask me. I don't like to have my samples on the app drive, especially when it gives me the option to NOT have it on the app drive. Very annoying, confusing and ... well, I'll just shut up right there for now.

Basically, from what I'm reading, it looks like the solution to my Dim Pro x64 problem is:

1) Run Sonar 8.5.1 x64 as administrator
2) Make sure multisample content is located in default directory of C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Dimension Pro

For now, I'm going to keep Dim Pro as the 32-bit version and will try again later, but it looks like the above two steps should make the x64 version work. :)

Thanks to brammer and Tyacko for the heads up as to the right direction to look for a solution to this problem.

A1MixMan


eratu,
 
Have you done anything to Win 7 as far as tweaking or setting adjustments or anything like that?
 
Thanks,
 
Brent

Nope, it's totally standard so far, with the small exception that I changed the "power plan" to "high performance". I've been a little surprised to see how stable and uncluttered it feels as-is. I'm not worrying about the thread parking issue yet either, although I will say, I have noticed that under light load, Win 7 does seem to shut down cores, or perhaps appears to shuffle threads around, etc. However, it hasn't had any negative impact on anything I've tried. Once I set up a big session with tons of tracks and plugins, I'll see if anything strange happens. Smooth sailing so far, except for the plugin issues I've mentioned above.

Will do. I agree, I think the key is the admin mode. Will attempt this on my next pass with Dim Pro! Thanks, man!

Jose7822


Any other news? :-)

LOL! Not yet, my friend. I'm trying to figure out how to tackle the NI plugins I have. There are some old NI plugins I still use, and I am trying to figure out the best way to install them... and not screw up the newer plugins... while not turning this into a nightmare of installation disks.... :)

eratu--what NI plugins do you have?
I have Komplete 6 installed, as well as some of the apps from Komplete 5, and going back even further, Spektral Delay and Vokator. I've already used Vokator without problems (via BitBridge; might have even been BitBridge 1.0).
I doubt that installing the older plugins will screw up the newer ones, they don't overwrite each other. Probably a good idea to run the older installers in compatibility mode, although I think on my 2nd Win7 RC install I skipped that bit too, to see if it would work (it seems to have done, AFAIK).

Damn dude, I think you own every plugin out there :-P

You have even mention some I've never heard of, like those from FabFilter.

Aww, that sucks.

My guess is that this will not be your main system for a while :-(

I was hoping you had as much success with 64 bit as I have.  Then again, I don't own even a 1/4 of the number of 3rd party plugins you own.

Hope you have better luck tomorrow my friend :-)

Jose7822


Aww, that sucks.

My guess is that this will not be your main system for a while :-(

I was hoping you had as much success with 64 bit as I have.  Then again, I don't own even a 1/4 of the number of 3rd party plugins you own.

Hope you have better luck tomorrow my friend :-)

Thanks, Jose. Yes, this has been more stressful than anticipated. Last time I tried x64, I think I would have given up by now. The real killer will be NI. If I can't get going with NI, then it's over. Back to 32-bit and I'll be seriously disappointed. But NI seems to be okay so far... unless that's the cause of the crashes. (Don't think it is, though...)

I haven't deliberately selected "Run in Admin Mode" anywhere. VISTA x64 Ultimate SP2

Unless there's something going on that I'm not aware of. I have disabled UAC.

I basically installed VISTA x64 and started installing DAW type files/programs after that. I also have Open Office (Wanted to keep MS Office 2007 off this mcahine) and Adobe Production Premium CS3. Boy Photoshop & Premiere sure like to run on this machine.