Dear Anyone.
Saw this question answered for a previous version of Audacity but the layout’s different in this one so I couldn’t apply that answer, sorry!
Every time I start up 3.4.2 it scans all my music software plugins, which takes about 12 minutes, and tells me half of them don’t work with it. I don’t want to use any of them with it. I just want to load soundfiles into Audacity and use its lovely built-in effects to edit them!
I found this exact question asked about version 2.4 (I THINK - it was 2.something!) and the answer was ‘go to Preferences/Edit and uncheck VSTs’. I can’t find a check/uncheck VSTs box in this version, though, so I don’t know how to do that here!
If I try clicking on SKIP, it comes up saying ‘CAN’T FIND C:\USERS\DATA ROAMNG\AUDACITY\AUDACITY.CFG’. I’ve looked there. I can find it - it’s right in front of me, on that exact path! If I can find it, why can’t Audacity find it?
If I let it go through the scanning process, it comes up with a hewge list of incompatible plugins - as in most of them would be - and then starts up fine - but there’s GOTTA be a way to stop it from doing the scanning thing? Tell me there is! I promise faithfully I don’t want to use any of my music plugins in Audacity, just Audacity’s own built-in plugins. (BTW - the original post said the scanning was due to a bug. That was in version 2.something. You’d think by now they’d’ve gotten rid of the bug, wouldn’t you, but it’s still there and still doing the same thing!)
Yours respectfully
Chris.