Won't Scan Vst Folder

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Hi, I just bought a new laptop with Vista Home Premium on it, and thus reinstalling renoise was one of the first things I did after updating windows fully. After which I installed the Native Instruments VST’s Massive and FM8 into C:/Program Files/VST Plugins

After starting Renoise i set the folder to scan for VST’s to C:/Program Files/VSTplugins and it found them.

The problem is i have to do this every time I start up Renoise, while on XP SP3 32bit it worked fine, with Vista Home Premium SP2 32 bit i seem to have this problem.

All the drivers are the newest available and the VST’s are the latest version.

Please help me! It’s not a huge problem, but it’s really starting to annoy me :)

Thanks in advance

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What does the VST folder property in the preference say when you restart Renoise? Is it correctly set to C:/Program Files/VSTplugins or is it void?

Can you post here the result of the last Renoise restart in the log file?
To show the log file: “Help => Show the log file”

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It is void, does not show the folder.

However, after starting renoise again it did find the VST’s. Might be it only happens after restart, which i shall try after posting this.

Log file:
Version : Renoise V2.1.0 (May 26 2009)
Date : 2009-09-28
Time : 12:19:38
OS : Windows Vista Service Pack 2

CPU: Found 1 enabled unit(s) with 2 core(s) / 2 logical processor(s) per unit. 2 cores are enabled in total.

Application: Showing the splash window…
Application: Initializing the API…

QuickTime: Initializing…
QuickTime: Initializing QuickTime (QTML) FAILED (QuickTime might not be installed)…
QuickTime: Initializing QuickTime (EnterMovies) FAILED (QuickTime might not be installed)…

Graphport: Initializing Freeimage…

GraphPort: Initializing DirectX…
GraphPort: Checking the DirectX version…
GraphPort: Obtaining and configuring the DirectX interface…
GraphPort: Initializing the Font Engine…

MIDI: Initializing DirectMusic…
MIDI: Enumerating DirectMusic (WDM) MIDI devices…

MIDI: Skipping emulated WDM device ‘Microsoft MIDI Mapper (emulatie)’
MIDI: Skipping emulated WDM device ‘Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth (emulatie)’
MIDI: Skipping softsynth WDM out-device ‘Microsoft Synthesizer’ (not supported)
MIDI: Enumerating Windows MME MIDI devices…
MIDI: Adding MME out-device ‘Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth’
MIDI: Finished device enumeration

ReWire Slave: ReWire engine link is already installed and up to date…
ReWire Slave: ReWire Panel was initialized…
ReWire Slave: ReWire Slave mode failed to init (no master is running)…

ReWire Master: Successfully opened

DspDevices: Registering native DSP effects…

Application: Creating the main application…
Application: Start running…
Application: Loading the preferences…
Application: Init…

VSTPlugs: VST paths are not (yet) set. Skipping enumeration…

DirectSound: Initializing…
DirectSound: Using SampleRate 44100
DirectSound: Primary Buffer Format: FormatTag=1, Channels=2, SamplesPerSec=44100, BitsPerSample=16, BlockAlign=4
DirectSound: CreateObjects … OK
DirectSound: Output Buffer Format: BufferSize=88200, FormatTag=1, Channels=2, SamplesPerSec=44100, BitsPerSample=16, BlockAlign=4
DirectSound: CreateBuffer … OK
DirectSound: Using pollbuffersize: 1536
DirectSound: Up and running

Application: Loading ‘The Grand Fuck Up.xrns’…

Audio Plugins: Failed to open plug VST: FM8
Audio Plugins: Failed to open plug VST: FM8
Audio Plugins: Failed to open plug VST: FM8

Timer: Seems safe to use the ‘QueryPerformance’ counters…

Player: Constructing…
Player: Creating the slave threads…
Player: Start running…

GUI: Creating the Document GUI…

GUI: Successfully constructed

Application: Successfully loaded ‘The Grand Fuck Up.xrns’.

GraphPort: Initializing in WindowedMode
GraphPort: Successfully initialized

Application: Init OK

Application: Enter MainLoop…

VSTPlugs: Searching for new VST plugins in ‘C:\Program Files\VstPlugins’…

VSTPlugs: Searching for new VST plugins in ‘C:\Program Files\VstPlugins’…

VSTPlugs: Searching for new VST plugins in ‘C:\Program Files\VstPlugins’…

Application: Releasing the old document…

Player: Constructing…
Player: Creating the slave threads…
Player: Start running…

GUI: Creating the Document GUI…
GUI: Successfully constructed

Application: Loading ‘The Grand Fuck Up.xrns’.

VstPlugs: Trying to instantiate C:\Program Files\VstPlugins\FM8.dll
VstPlugs: Analyzing VST plugin ‘Native Instruments: FM8’, Unique ID:1315530296, Version:2400
VstPlugs: Forced static processing buffers (256 Samples) for plug ‘Native Instruments: FM8’
VstPlugs: Instantiate OK
VstPlugs: Trying to instantiate C:\Program Files\VstPlugins\FM8.dll
VstPlugs: Analyzing VST plugin ‘Native Instruments: FM8’, Unique ID:1315530296, Version:2400
VstPlugs: Forced static processing buffers (256 Samples) for plug ‘Native Instruments: FM8’
VstPlugs: Instantiate OK
VstPlugs: Trying to instantiate C:\Program Files\VstPlugins\FM8.dll
VstPlugs: Analyzing VST plugin ‘Native Instruments: FM8’, Unique ID:1315530296, Version:2400
VstPlugs: Forced static processing buffers (256 Samples) for plug ‘Native Instruments: FM8’
VstPlugs: Instantiate OK

Player: Constructing…
Player: Creating the slave threads…
Player: Start running…

GUI: Creating the Document GUI…
GUI: Successfully constructed

Application: Successfully loaded ‘The Grand Fuck Up.xrns’.

Application: Exit…

Shut down: Stopped the Player

After restarting the laptop it seems to see the VST folder. I’m not sure why it has started working suddenly.

Thanks anyway, and if it starts acting up again you’ll see me back here ;)