Few Audacity questions

[SAngeli]

Yes,
here are two pictures:
Effects

Plug-ins folder

Spiro

[steve]

Abilita effetti

LADSPA : yes
Nyquist : yes
VAMP : yes
VST : no - deselect this option.

Then close Audacity and restart Audacity.

[SAngeli]

By doing so I do not get anymore the VST scanning.

I wish to know what does it do when I see this screen at startup, before this change:


What are all those dll files? Are all those not VST files?

Also, why with this setting
LADSPA : yes
Nyquist : yes
VAMP : yes
VST : yes

on my laptop I do not get this scanning windows at startup? Keep in mind I did not install LADSPA. and before updating to ver 2.0.0 having same settings I was not getting this windows.

Thank you,
Spiro

[steve]

On Windows, both LADSPA and VST plug-ins are .dll files.
When Audacity scans it is looking to see if there are any VST plug-ins, so it checks all of the .dll files that it finds in the plug-in search path.

If Audacity finds one or more VST plug-ins it will try to enable it and will not search again unless you tell Audacity to do so.
On your laptop you may have one or more VST effect installed.

[SAngeli]

Hi Steve,

I do not think I have VST plugins installed on my laptop.
I will post some pictures so you can see yourself and let me know. Rather, I have less items installed on the laptop as for Audacity.

Main Audacity software folder
Audacity plug-ins
Effects
Software Release
Installed applications

So, as you can see with VST enabled I still do not get this startup windows scanning.
Can you please give me an example of dll files I should find inside my plug-ins folder?

I am asking so many questions simply because without having changed anything on my comptuer, other than Audacity Software I never ever had this issue before and surely I did not have to unselect the VST settings

Thank you,
Spiro

[steve]

If no VST effects have been detected by Audacity then scanning will probably occur, but it should be reasonably quick. The exact amount of time taken depends on several factors including what .dll files Audacity finds in the search path.

The search path includes:

• The Audacity Plug-ins folder.
• The path specified by the VST_PATH environment variable.
• The path specified by Windows Registry key HKCUSoftwareVSTVSTPluginsPath
• The path specified by Windows Registry key HKLMSoftwareVSTVSTPluginsPath

The number of .dll files scanned, and the time taken to scan each .dll file will affect the total scan time.

If the scan occurs very quickly then Audacity suppresses the progress bar, in which case there is no visual indication that Audacity is scanning. This is probably the case on your laptop. In other words, on your laptop the scan is probably too quick to show up.

[SAngeli]

Hi,

I thank you for being so detailed on the reply. Is it possible to have a screenshot of the directory that contains those VST effects?
What I do not understand is the followings: why prior to ver 2.0 I did not have this issue and did not remove the flag for VST effects and now with ver 2.0 instead the problem exists?
As for the laptop it is the opposit. On my PC Desktop I have an SSD and on the laptop I have a traditional 5400rpm HD

What makes me keep asking is that with all the variables being the same I do not find a reasonable answer to why this issue never presented itself up to ver 2.0.

Thank you,
Spiro

[steve]

1. After installing Audacity, I installed "LADSPA_plugins-win-0.4.15". I do not know if I have VST effects installed. How to find out?
I tried with another user profile but it behaves the same way.
On my laptop, with same OS, I do not have LADSPA plugins installed and most likely this is why it does not behave the same way.

After installing the LADSPA plug-ins you will have a lot more dll files in the plug-in search path. These are not VST plug-ins so they do not tell Audacity to stop looking for VST plugins but they are .dll files so Audacity will scan them to see if they are VSTs or not. The time taken to scan these extra dll files is obviously enough to cause Audacity to show the scanning progress bar, whereas on the laptop (with many less .dll files to scan) the scan time is short enough that Audacity does not show the scanning progress bar.

As I wrote previously, the simple way to stop the scanning is to disable VST effects in Preferences. If at any time in the future you wish to install any VST effects, simply re-enable the option.

[SAngeli]

Ok,

thank you for the explanations.
I am done with this tread. I am now able to perform as needed, thanks to you guys.
Spiro