VST Instruments not being recognized by Acid -ACID Product Family

Subject:VST Instruments not being recognized by Acid Posted by: Gibsonlp Date:7/16/2004 5:53:52 AM Hi all, I will try to give as much info as possible to explain this problem, so please be patient. I have been using several vst instruments with Acid 4.0e with no problems. One in particular is Spectrasonics Atmosphere 1.0. Everything worked great. Spectrasonics recently put out version 1.2 update and I decided to download it, did the install and opened Acid 4.0e to try it out. When I clicked insert>soft synth and selected Atmosphere, Acid removed the Atmosphere vst option and inserted the stand DLS soft synth. I opened up the Options>Preferences and hit the Vst tab. Atmosphere was no longer listed. I did a refresh to see if Acid would see the .dll file. It still did not see it. I opened FL Studio and it could not see it either. After about 24 hours I decided to re-install Atmosphere, which is a task being it has 6 CD's at 3.9G core library. Acid still did not see the Vst .dll in the Vst folder. I then decided to re-install Acid and upgrade to 4.0f while I was at it. After all that was done, Acid saw the .dll for Atmosphere just fine (version 1.0 now). until I inserted it and it was back to the DLS soft synths again. I had been noticing that if I try out demos of plug in's sometime Acid won't see them in the Vst folder. I have lost the capabiltiy to use Atmosphere with Acid and don't know why. I have done refreshes out the wazzoo. Has anyone out there seen the same problem of not having Vst's be recongnized or having them removed when selected from the soft synth options. By the was FL Studio sees and inserts Atmosphere just fine since the reinstall. Thanks all for any help you can provide. Don Basical
Subject:RE: VST Instruments not being recognized by Acid Reply by: JohnnyRoy Date:7/16/2004 6:58:33 AM At first, I thought it might be a problem unique to Atmosphere because FL Studio couldn’t use it either, but now that FL Studio works, perhaps you just have to force ACID to refresh its VSTi list. Sometimes a reinstall doesn’t clean out all the registry entries and you have to try the brute force method by deleting the plugin key in the registry and have ACID repopulate it the next time it starts. I give step by step instructions at the bottom of this thread. It’s worth a try but it seems strange that it saw it and then disappeared. I would contact Spectrasonics and ask them what they changed in the latest release that might cause their plug-in to stop working. ~jr
Subject:RE: VST Instruments not being recognized by Acid Reply by: TDuck Date:7/16/2004 10:43:32 AM If you use windows XP try "system restore" and do not update atmosphere anymore . It' s not much of an update anyway .
Subject:RE: VST Instruments not being recognized by Acid Reply by: Gibsonlp Date:7/16/2004 10:56:44 AM JohnnyRoy and TDuck, Thank you for the replies. I contacted Sony this morning and tech support basically ran me through how to force a rescan. Pretty much the way you said to do it JohnnyRoy. They said they don't support Spectrasonics Atmosphere because they have not tested it. Yet, Spectrasonics advertises that it will work fine. I believe Spectrasonics because it has worked flawlessly for a long time. I really would have liked the upgrade to work, since it synced the LFOs to the bpm via midi clock. That would have been nice instead of using you ear to get it close and then not have the drift as the track went on. But I guess people have been using version 1.0 for along time. I will try the rescan and deletion of the register when I get home tonight. Thanks again for the help. Don

Subject:VST Instruments not being recognized by Acid

Posted by: Gibsonlp

Date:7/16/2004 5:53:52 AM

Hi all,

I will try to give as much info as possible to explain this problem, so please be patient.

I have been using several vst instruments with Acid 4.0e with no problems. One in particular is Spectrasonics Atmosphere 1.0. Everything worked great. Spectrasonics recently put out version 1.2 update and I decided to download it, did the install and opened Acid 4.0e to try it out. When I clicked insert>soft synth and selected Atmosphere, Acid removed the Atmosphere vst option and inserted the stand DLS soft synth. I opened up the Options>Preferences and hit the Vst tab. Atmosphere was no longer listed. I did a refresh to see if Acid would see the .dll file. It still did not see it. I opened FL Studio and it could not see it either. After about 24 hours I decided to re-install Atmosphere, which is a task being it has 6 CD's at 3.9G core library. Acid still did not see the Vst .dll in the Vst folder. I then decided to re-install Acid and upgrade to 4.0f while I was at it. After all that was done, Acid saw the .dll for Atmosphere just fine (version 1.0 now). until I inserted it and it was back to the DLS soft synths again. I had been noticing that if I try out demos of plug in's sometime Acid won't see them in the Vst folder. I have lost the capabiltiy to use Atmosphere with Acid and don't know why. I have done refreshes out the wazzoo. Has anyone out there seen the same problem of not having Vst's be recongnized or having them removed when selected from the soft synth options. By the was FL Studio sees and inserts Atmosphere just fine since the reinstall.

Thanks all for any help you can provide.

Don

Basical

Subject:RE: VST Instruments not being recognized by Acid

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:7/16/2004 6:58:33 AM

At first, I thought it might be a problem unique to Atmosphere because FL Studio couldn’t use it either, but now that FL Studio works, perhaps you just have to force ACID to refresh its VSTi list. Sometimes a reinstall doesn’t clean out all the registry entries and you have to try the brute force method by deleting the plugin key in the registry and have ACID repopulate it the next time it starts. I give step by step instructions at the bottom of this thread. It’s worth a try but it seems strange that it saw it and then disappeared.

I would contact Spectrasonics and ask them what they changed in the latest release that might cause their plug-in to stop working.

~jr

Subject:RE: VST Instruments not being recognized by Acid

Reply by: TDuck

Date:7/16/2004 10:43:32 AM

If you use windows XP try "system restore" and do not update atmosphere anymore . It' s not much of an update anyway .

Subject:RE: VST Instruments not being recognized by Acid

Reply by: Gibsonlp

Date:7/16/2004 10:56:44 AM

JohnnyRoy and TDuck,

Thank you for the replies. I contacted Sony this morning and tech support basically ran me through how to force a rescan. Pretty much the way you said to do it JohnnyRoy. They said they don't support Spectrasonics Atmosphere because they have not tested it. Yet, Spectrasonics advertises that it will work fine. I believe Spectrasonics because it has worked flawlessly for a long time. I really would have liked the upgrade to work, since it synced the LFOs to the bpm via midi clock. That would have been nice instead of using you ear to get it close and then not have the drift as the track went on. But I guess people have been using version 1.0 for along time. I will try the rescan and deletion of the register when I get home tonight. Thanks again for the help.

Don