Impossible to enable any plug-ins, I receive a "Could Not Load The Library" error

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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I’m using Audacity 3.0.3. My operating system is Windows 10 Pro.

I’ve tried to download Rovee and Autotalent, but upon trying to enable them (separately, of course), I receive a “Could not load the library” error.

I’ve tried all of the following:

  1. Downloaded a 32bit Windows VST version of both plug-ins
  2. Put them in both of the plug-in folders (in AppData and in Program Files)
  3. Launched Audacity as an administrator
  4. Deleted the ‘pluginregistry.cfg’ and ‘pluginsettings.cfg’ files, both separately and together

No matter what I do, I still receive the error.

Also, if all else fails, it could be great if somebody suggested any other Audacity-compatible plug-ins for formant shifting :smiley:

Thanks in advance!

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  1. Downloaded a 32bit Windows VST version of both plug-ins

The “standard” Audacity 3.0.3 download is now 64-bits. :wink:

Not all VST plug-ins work with Audacity. With commercial VSTs their support page usually has a list of officially supported hosts, but with free plug-ins it’s usually hit-or-miss. Very few commercial plug-ins officially support Audacity (probably because most Audacity users don’t want to pay for plug-ins) but sometimes they work anyway.

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The default version of Audacity 3.0.3 is a 64-bit app, and requires 64-bit plug-ins.

(There is a 32-bit version of Audacity 3.0.3 available if you are on 32-bit Windows).

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Understood! I thought that it was still 32-bit after reading old forum posts :laughing:

Also, this might be a really dumb question… but will it be possible to use a 32-bit version of Audacity on a 64-bit computer (like the one that I have)? Should work since backward compatibility is possible, but just to clear any doubts…

Thanks a lot for your replies!

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Not a dumb question at all.

Yes you can run 32-bit apps on a 64-bit Windows PC - and note that the Audacity download site has a 32-bit build of 3.0.3 as well as the 64-bit one.

This was partly provided for folk like you who have a lot of 32-bit plug-ins that they still want/need to run

Peter.

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Yes. You can get the “Audacity 32-bit Windows Installer” from here: https://www.fosshub.com/Audacity.html

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Thanks, everyone! Downloaded a 32-Bit version of Audacity, and everything is now working fine. :smiley: