Hello all,
 
I have a minor problem since I installed X3.  The first time I tried to insert Session Drummer into a project,  I received a message saying that it wasn't installed correctly.  I tried running X3's install again and checked only the Session Drummer to be installed.  After that, Session Drummer doesn't even show up in my VSTi list.  It is not in the excluded plugin list either.  The SessionDrummer64.dll is in my VST folder, but a rescan of VSTs just ignores it. I have tried deleting the VST folder for Sessiondrummer and reinstalling via the X3 install and still it doesn't work.  I downloaded a demo of Digital Performer and scanned my VST's with it and it says that Session Drummer can't find an entry point or something like that.  Short of completely uninstalling Sonar X3 and reinstalling, I can't think of anything else to do.  Anyone have any ideas ?
 
This is not a really big deal, since I like Addictive Drums much better.  But I just would like for it to work because it should.
 
Thanks
Ron Grossl
 
AMD Phenom II processor  3.4 ghz
8 gb memory
Windows 8  64bit
Sonar X2a and X3a installed
Maudio 2496 PCI interface
 

Um, yeah I would think so - especially since many of us have X2 projects with SD 64.
I will follow this thread, and won't upgrade until I see a resolution here.

SD3 64 bit is working fine for me.  One possibility is during X3 install, it tried to install SD3 again and it was a bad install.  I would try doing an advanced install of X3 again and skip everything except what is necessary to install SD3 again

First I would suggest following this KB article:
http://www.cakewalk.com/Support/kb/reader.aspx/2007013315

Let us know if this works.
-DG

Dan, I did follow that KB article and still, I have no Session Drummer.  Its like the dll isn't even in the VST folder, but it is.
 
I have already tried  dubdisciple's suggestion of an advanced install with only Session Drummer (actually about 4 times).   I do appreciate the suggestion, though. 
 
If no one else has any suggestions, I think I will go ahead and uninstall Sonar X3 and reinstall to see if that fixes it.  One question about uninstalling X3,  should I de-activate Melodyne and re-activate it after X3 is installed ? or should I just leave it alone ?
 
Thanks
 

By the way ,pdarg,  I don't think this is anything to worry about as far as X3 is concerned.  I am the only person that I know of that is having this problem and I'm sure we would have heard if others were having the same problem.  I think something just got messed up either in the download or when I was installing it.  You know how installs go sometimes.  Some little byte gets changed somehow and it messes stuff up.  I am going to reinstall X3 later this evening and I will let you know if it fixes everything.
 
 

maybe check the folders the vst scan is occuring and check that against where SD3 is actually installed.  I ran into a problem like that once where I had installed X1 and X2 so many times I had remnants all over the place and it caused issues.

dubdisciple
maybe check the folders the vst scan is occuring and check that against where SD3 is actually installed.  I ran into a problem like that once where I had installed X1 and X2 so many times I had remnants all over the place and it caused issues.

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Agreed, make sure that the .dll is actually in the place that you are scanning. 

Yes, it is in the ProgramFiles/Cakewalk/VSTplugins  with all my other plugins.  I even moved it to another VST folder that is scanned by Sonar and it still doesn't find it.  While scanning, I can sometimes see SessionDrummer show up in the little window at the bottom of the screen for a split second, but it just passes it by with no error.
For what its worth,  Sonar X2 no longer shows Session Drummer either.
 
 

I have this problem too. One thing I tried in my ignorance is to reinstall an earlier version of Sonar (X2). Nope. Didn't help.