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2011/06/13 13:20:34 (permalink)

Sonar X1 Producer > instruments' paths giving grief

Hello, 
I'm not sure if this is the right way to submit this; but maybe some of you had similar problems.
I'm still in my very early stages of getting to know my copy of Sonar X1 Producer, having run into obstacles after installing the first DVD already. 

It appears that Setup is not heeding the paths inquired from the owner upon installation for all VST instruments bundled. Even tho I did specify a dedicated drive/location for them ("G:\installed\VST") not all instruments were put there. Most notably z3+a and the Cakewalk Sound Center were dropped into "C:\Users\{USERNAME}\AppData\Roaming\Cakewalk\{INSTRUMENTNAME}". Bit of a bummer (I thought) but nothing really problematic since (I thought) moving the folders and employing Sonar's ability to rescan the plugins folder/s should make mending this a snap. 
Wrong. 

Not only do rescanned instruments not rescan for their content repositories' location/s;
Cakewalk Sound Center, to begin with, seems to be utterly incapable of opening alternative sound locations [or I am too stupid to do it right; that's admittedly always an option :)]. No matter if I chose to open a "Bank" or an "Instrument" it looks for .fxb-files while all programs I can find under CSC are .prog-files (155); doing a file search across my instruments drive only yielded 4 .fxb-files at all. 
DropZone, funnily, won't let me browse different locations either. To listen to a new sound, I have to drop it into DropZone 'sideways' from the Windows-Explorer. 
All instruments which I have relocated can't make proper use of the arrow-butttons (browse forward or backward thru sound programs);  the instruments' browser is no help either; it comes either up empty or causes the instrument to throw an error on trying to opening one, if sound-programs are listed. I can hit F5 as much as i want, no change for the better.  

So, I guess my bottom line question is this:  
Will SX1P recurse content directories properly some time soon? I'm hoping for an answer other than "put the stuff where Sonar wants it and live with it", tbh. Will the instrument/sounds/programs-browser allow to redefine the root directory to start looking in per instrument? 

I'm on Win7 Pro SP1,  
my copy of Sonar is X1 Producer, build 184.  
I have not yet applied any of the patches (I was told be german cakewalk support that I need all of these: 
http://cakewalk.com/suppo...der.aspx?ID=2007013216 -  1.Sonar X1a Update
http://cakewalk.com/suppo...der.aspx?ID=2007013233 -  2.Sonar X1b Update
http://cakewalk.com/suppo...der.aspx?ID=2007013244 -  3.Sonar Quick Fixes
) 
If the described problem is addressed by any of these, thx for letting me know. Also thanks in advance for any help you may be able to provide. 

Best regards - S 
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    Re:Sonar X1 Producer > instruments' paths giving grief 2011/06/13 15:04:57 (permalink) ☄ Helpful
    This has a lot less to do with SONAR than it has to do with the individual instruments themselves.

    You can relocate a VST's dll, and SONAR will reidentify it when it does a VST scan...but it's completely up to the individual instrument how they are going to locate their content and resources.

    For some instruments (like Dimension Pro, Session Drummer 3, DropZone, Rapture and possibly others) you can redirect the instrument to new content locations via registry entries.

    (See... http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=2321033)

    Cakewalk Sound Center doesn't seem to want to let you play this game though.  Unless someone else comes up with a way to relocate this, I would leave it where it lands.

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    Re:Sonar X1 Producer > instruments' paths giving grief 2011/06/13 15:53:36 (permalink)
    Hello, Dan; 
    and thanks for your input. As I type this, I am going thru my 3rd reinstall ;) - I will do as you suggested. (In a way, I have already, moving stuff around with AppMover - but the magic of this litttle helper meets its limits with one or two of the instruments bundled with SX1P, the Sound Center being one. Is CSC actually worth the trouble? Cursory inspection didn't impress me a whole lot, but I may be missing a crtitical point.) 
    Cheers - S 
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    Re:Sonar X1 Producer > instruments' paths giving grief 2011/06/13 16:11:48 (permalink) ☄ Helpful
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    Hello, Dan; 
    and thanks for your input. As I type this, I am going thru my 3rd reinstall ;) - I will do as you suggested. (In a way, I have already, moving stuff around with AppMover - but the magic of this litttle helper meets its limits with one or two of the instruments bundled with SX1P, the Sound Center being one. Is CSC actually worth the trouble? Cursory inspection didn't impress me a whole lot, but I may be missing a crtitical point.) 
    Cheers - S 
    I'm afraid I'm lacking a useful opinion on Sound Center.  I can say that I've never been tempted to use it on a project.

    By the way...you can relocate DropZone's content and resources by mimicing the "Content Folder" registry entry used by DimPro etc..  DropZone doesn't install with its own registry entries by default, but you can add them and it will find and use them.



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