VST scans are a pain...

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2012/10/27 02:12:30 (permalink)

VST scans are a pain...

I am not sure why this keeps going on, but I have lately been using X2/64 exclusively...and there's a couple of quirks I am to lazy to research to heavily into...namely when I open up X2 on a project, oft-times quite a few of my vst's (plug-ins and vsti's) are not in the dropdown selection menu...

So I do that gawd-awlful scan on the plug-in option and it takes for-freakin-ever always...they show up...

I rescan...they show up...I use them...

Next time I open X2 they are not there again...

Between that and my control surfaces not being found in midi every friggin time...its a pain...

Anyone have any pain-killers?

I'm using SOnar Platinium on a 6 core Lynx Audio machine and a ton of vintage pre-amps/eq's/comps I build for fun and sometimes money, REDD.47/API/Neve I also use the UAD stuff, and also use a Macbook Logic 9 through Apogee...
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    dan le
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    Re:VST scans are a pain... 2012/10/27 17:52:33 (permalink)
    Hi, are you having this problem with 32 bit plugins or all plugins?
    Let me know.
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    Re:VST scans are a pain... 2012/10/27 18:23:07 (permalink)
    It sounds as though the VST scan progress is getting hung up on something...   AFAIK, the scan process has actually gotten quicker in recent versions.
     
    The only way I know to troubleshoot something like this is to systematically remove a plugin at a time.    No fun.
     

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    Re:VST scans are a pain... 2012/10/27 18:53:35 (permalink)
    Yes on plug-in removal...it doesn't help that UAD list everything but the kitchen sink and I am gradually "unenabling" plug-ins as I do it...

    There are a LOT of plug-ins though...I have Waves and UAD, some SSL stuff...it also doesn't help that each new version of Waves introduces a new shell, so essentially you are scanning all of them several times I am sure...

    What buggers me is I should be able to scan them and they should show up when I start over...that is NOT happening...

    As well as my control surfaces needing to be loaded every time...for some reason having more than one midi device seems to confuse the heck out of X2...

    As far as 32 bit...thats one of the issues driving me wackmagical...I WANT 64 bit DimPro, Amber Piano, THD, Breverb etc...I think the mix of 32 vs. 64 scans is confusing the code...

    I uninstalled duckbar as well...although I really like it, not sure why the majority of folks like the DARKER versions, I don't...

    I'm using SOnar Platinium on a 6 core Lynx Audio machine and a ton of vintage pre-amps/eq's/comps I build for fun and sometimes money, REDD.47/API/Neve I also use the UAD stuff, and also use a Macbook Logic 9 through Apogee...
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    dan le
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    Re:VST scans are a pain... 2012/10/27 19:13:04 (permalink)
    Ok, here is what you should do about your 32 bit plugins.
    I found this fix by accident.
    Find the bitbridge.exe program and not the bitbridge.dll and copy and paste it to your StartUp folder of Windows.
    It is the folder that is in User, Yourname, Appdata, Roaming, Microsoft, Windows, Start Menu, Programs, Startup.
    For some reason, if X1 has BB.exe in Startup, then it does not make me rescan my 32 bit plugs anymore.
     
    This happens to 3 machines already, since 8.5.

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    Re:VST scans are a pain... 2012/10/27 19:27:39 (permalink)
    thanks dan will give it a try...i forget that there is the "tweaking" curve to tune up all of it when it comes out...my next upgrade will be win8...sheesh i must be a sadist...

    I'm using SOnar Platinium on a 6 core Lynx Audio machine and a ton of vintage pre-amps/eq's/comps I build for fun and sometimes money, REDD.47/API/Neve I also use the UAD stuff, and also use a Macbook Logic 9 through Apogee...
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