Big problem with VST Enabler, please help

[Patyk1986]

Hi
I've got a problem with the VST Enabler.I've got the Audacity 1.34 version.After installing the VST Enabler and pasting the files to the plugin folder of audacity, Audacity won't run anymore ! After deleting the VST Enabler, Audacity is operating back again.
Can somebody help ?? What's going on ? I also tried the older version of Audacity.Same thing.

[alatham]

Does Audacity give you an error message when you try to start it?

I've seen this problem a handful of times, I don't think it's ever been resolved fully.

On the other hand, Audacity's VST support is rudimentary at best (no GUI support, no realtime support, no file read/write support, some plugins crash Audacity, etc.), so you probably won't be missing out on much anyway. This is due to a legal issue that only Steinburg can resolve and they're not likely to budge.

[samikx]

I have the same problem. It actually worked at first, and I could see the list of all the plug-ins I downloaded (they were the mda-vst-fx package. I tried to playback a recording without the effects and it wouldn't work, there was a problem with Audacity's audio output. Now Audacity won't even run.. In fact, whatever happened was so severe an error message pops up when I try and run the uninstaller, due to "bad image" or "insufficient system resources." And now it seems I can't open any other programs for the same reason. I only just now got this problem after trying either the mda-vst-fx package or the vst enabler. Wow. Looks like this thing really f*cked me. Maybe you guys should take the VST Enabler off the site..

[alatham]

samikx, you've got much bigger problems than what the VST enabler could possibly give you. It sounds like you've got a dying hard drive (the "bad image" message) or a virus ("insufficient resources"). The VST enabler can't mess with the uninstaller program.

I did hear about one person who had conflicts between two different VST programs after installing Audacity's VST enabler. But I never heard anything back about what exactly happened and nothing was resolved.

[gle121tpr]

I have installed SoundSoap 2.1.1 and Audacity 1.2.6. Each has worked fine as a stand-alone. After converting Audacity projects to WAV format, SoundSoap has functioned fine on the resulting WAV files. However, when I tried to add SoundSoap as a plug-in, Audacity crashed each time I tried to open it. I don't think it crashed because of the SoundSoap plug-in. I downloaded the VST Windows Installer (vst bridge-1.1.exe) and the vst bridge 1.1.win.zip (to get the vst-bridge.dll). I executed the Installer in the Plug-Ins folder and pasted vst-bridge.dll into the same folder. It crashed every time, whether or not the SoundSoap plug-in was also in the Plug-In folder. If I left the VST Bridge folder in thte Plug-Ins folder, but deleted the vst-bridge.dll, it opened normally, but SoundSoap wasn't in the "Effects" tab. So it seems that the vst-bridge.dll is the problem, unless I have misunderstood the installation instructions. I would be pleased to know if there is a solution to this problem