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Subject:Slow startup Posted by: dabbler Date:12/13/2008 5:49:00 AM I am a casual old acid user that upgraded to acid pro 7.0 in the hopes to replace my (former?) DAW (Tracktion). I REALLY like lots of things about it, have not had any major problems yet. I also REALLY want to make it my primary DAW. One thing that drives me nuts and I've seen referenced here previously is start time. Pro 7.0 takes over 1.5 minutes to start on my computer. It appears to be scanning my entire hard drive for VST's. I don't have that many VST's. My computer is a Core2 Duo @ 2.2GHZ with 2gig RAM so I don't think that is the problem. Please tell me there is a setting that I can change to have it skip the scan or SONY please figure out a way to fix this!!
Subject:RE: Slow startup Reply by: darrena Date:12/13/2008 8:51:19 AM This might not be too much help, but I noticed that AP7 does a VST scan on boot and if it sees new VSTs it takes quite a bit longer than if you haven't changed the contents of your VST folder. (It does a quicker scan but lists all of the VSTs if the directory hasn't changed.) Is it possible you just saw this extra slow boot time after you added or removed a VST?
Subject:RE: Slow startup Reply by: dabbler Date:12/13/2008 11:29:07 AM I have not added any VST's since I got pro 7. It seems like it is searching every dll file on my entire harddrive for VST's??? Is there a way to restrict it to a single directory? How long does Acid Pro 7 take to load on other people machines out there??? Thanks!!!
Subject:RE: Slow startup Reply by: dabbler Date:12/13/2008 11:37:36 AM Sorry, had I looked back 6 or 7 posts I would have seen the following post from Peter that fixed my slow startup problem. Thanks all!!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The only way to determine whether a dll is a VST plug-in is to load it. This is a limitation of the VST technology. You should definitely not scan your entire system for VSTs. By default ACID looks at a registry entry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VST for the default VST search path. This registry entry is defined byt the VST SDK. If this key does not exist, then ACID defaults to C:\Program Files\VSTPlugins To correct your problem: 1. Exit ACID 2. locate the following directory on your system: C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Local Settings\Application Data\Sony\ACID Pro\7.0 3. delete the file acidpro.plugincache.xml 4. Start ACID. This will force ACID to rescan the default directory paths. You can then manually add additional directories where you believe plug-ins are installed. Avoid large search paths like c:\Program Files as any number of dll's that are scanned can cause the problems you experianced. We are looking at solutions to prevent this from happening, but there is only so much that can be done given the way VST enumeration works. Peter

Subject:Slow startup

Posted by: dabbler

Date:12/13/2008 5:49:00 AM

I am a casual old acid user that upgraded to acid pro 7.0 in the hopes to replace my (former?) DAW (Tracktion). I REALLY like lots of things about it, have not had any major problems yet. I also REALLY want to make it my primary DAW.

One thing that drives me nuts and I've seen referenced here previously is start time. Pro 7.0 takes over 1.5 minutes to start on my computer. It appears to be scanning my entire hard drive for VST's. I don't have that many VST's. My computer is a Core2 Duo @ 2.2GHZ with 2gig RAM so I don't think that is the problem.

Please tell me there is a setting that I can change to have it skip the scan or SONY please figure out a way to fix this!!

Subject:RE: Slow startup

Reply by: darrena

Date:12/13/2008 8:51:19 AM

This might not be too much help, but I noticed that AP7 does a VST scan on boot and if it sees new VSTs it takes quite a bit longer than if you haven't changed the contents of your VST folder.

(It does a quicker scan but lists all of the VSTs if the directory hasn't changed.)

Is it possible you just saw this extra slow boot time after you added or removed a VST?

Subject:RE: Slow startup

Reply by: dabbler

Date:12/13/2008 11:29:07 AM

I have not added any VST's since I got pro 7. It seems like it is searching every dll file on my entire harddrive for VST's??? Is there a way to restrict it to a single directory?

How long does Acid Pro 7 take to load on other people machines out there???

Thanks!!!

Subject:RE: Slow startup

Reply by: dabbler

Date:12/13/2008 11:37:36 AM

Sorry, had I looked back 6 or 7 posts I would have seen the following post from Peter that fixed my slow startup problem.

Thanks all!!!

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The only way to determine whether a dll is a VST plug-in is to load it. This is a limitation of the VST technology.

You should definitely not scan your entire system for VSTs. By default ACID looks at a registry entry

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VST

for the default VST search path. This registry entry is defined byt the VST SDK.

If this key does not exist, then ACID defaults to

C:\Program Files\VSTPlugins

To correct your problem:

1. Exit ACID
2. locate the following directory on your system:

C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Local Settings\Application Data\Sony\ACID Pro\7.0

3. delete the file

acidpro.plugincache.xml

4. Start ACID.

This will force ACID to rescan the default directory paths.

You can then manually add additional directories where you believe plug-ins are installed.

Avoid large search paths like c:\Program Files as any number of dll's that are scanned can cause the problems you experianced.

We are looking at solutions to prevent this from happening, but there is only so much that can be done given the way VST enumeration works.

Peter