Audacity Plugin Trouble?

[mrmusicsnob]

Hi. I have installed Audacity 1.2.6, along with several VSTs, and the vst enabler. I have followed the directions for installing the vst bridge, and now Audacity will not run as long as vst_bridge.dll is in the plugins folder. I have read about other who have the same problem, but is there a fix for this? Thanks to all.

[steve]

The problem with VST effects is that just one incompatible effect anywhere on you computer can completely mess things up for Audacity.

The solutions are either:

1) Remove all VST effects from your computer, then add them back one at a time so that you can identify which one(s) are causing the problem.

2) Remove the VST bridge and just use the Nyquist and LADSPA plug-ins with Audacity. If you have other audio software that use VST plug-ins, then you can still use their VST effects.

I would recommend the second option as 9a) Audacity support for VST is rather limited, and (b) there are a lot of very good Nyquist and LADSPA plug-ins that are freely available without messing up Audacity (and (c) this is a much easier option).

[mrmusicsnob]

Hey thanks a bunch. I had already uninstalled 1.2.6 and deleted every folder related to it, including the Steinberg and VST folders. I installed the 1.3 Beta and downloaded the vst bridge zip instead of the exe, and it worked fine. I started adding the vst's back, one at a time. I got through that I expect to need, and stopped there. I'll add more as they are needed. Thank you very much for your help.

[steve]

There's some information about VST effects in the Audacity wiki: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... T_Plug-ins