hello I'm trying to download this  stand alone engine dexted to use the Yamaha dx7 sound on my sonar platinum , once unzipped the file it has an .dll extension , now ive seen this before and I just used my old home studio 7 to open the file and voila I have a stand alone engine with vst's , but now with window 10 and sonar platinum the pc is unable to open the file , does any one got this problem??? Microsoft is talking about have all the software updated including drivers ....note as of now  my pc  drivers are up to date thank you   

whats dexted?

Try putting the file in Cakewalk/Vstplugins folder and then run the vst scanner in Sonar.

Dexed is a free DX7 emulation. If it's delivered as a .dll it needs to go in the folder where all other VSTis go, such as C:\program files\cakewalk\vstplugins (for 64-bit). Don't know where the included patches go.

Here is the thing ,when I open sonar and scan for vst Dexted which is in the vst folder does not came up ,and if I try to open the dll file using sonar it came up with a message corrupted file or program not compatible

I have the 64bit version of dexed working on my Sonar Platinum 2017.8 EA.  The DLL file itself is 2,612,736 bytes in size and is located in my VST folder
 
The patches themselves are in the following folder:
 
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\DigitalSuburban\Dexed

This folder also contains a file called Dexed.xml which is basically a text file that contains some parameters

The zip file that you download contains both the 32bit and the 64bit dlls.

The latest version can downloaded from here

http://asb2m10.github.io/dexed/
 
Hope this helps

tony2000
Here is the thing ,when I open sonar and scan for vst Dexted which is in the vst folder does not came up ,and if I try to open the dll file using sonar it came up with a message corrupted file or program not compatible

You cannot open dll files in that way so that message is entirely expected.
 
Follow promidi's advice above.

Make sure you're using the right version... 32 bit in 32 bit Sonar, 64 bit in 64 bit Sonar.

yes I got it I had to download a vst host  called savihost from the dexted web side , but I have to say is very weak and big latency I don't think you can use the asio driver  ...I was told that is very good ,.....but......
if anyone have some good soft synths for good price let me know ,.... thank you guys

The .dll is the vst software. You need to put it in the corresponding vst directory for either 32 or 64 bit OS. This defaults to /Program Files/cakewalk/vstplugins/ for 64bit or /Program Files (x86)/Cakewalk/vstplugins/ for 32bit on a 64bit system. You can not open a .dll with sonar.