Always scan VST at every Audacity launching

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hilow
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Always scan VST at every Audacity launching

Post by hilow » Wed Jul 18, 2012 11:37 am

Hello,

Previously I used Audacity 1.x under Windows XP and, these days, I'm migrating toward Windows 7 Pro (FR). I'm logged as admin.

Well, so, today, I've installed Audacity 2.0.1, LADSPA plugins 0.4.15, Lame 3.99.3 and FFmpeg 0.6.2. All seems to be OK unless a little thing : Audacity rescan VST modules everytime it starts, even if the option is not activated.

I've even checked in the audacity.cfg file and the VST section is like this :
[VST]
Enable=1
GUI=1
Rescan=0
And it still continues to scan VST modules at start-time :shock: What to do ?
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Re: Always scan VST at every Audacity launching

Post by steve » Wed Jul 18, 2012 2:32 pm

What is happening is that you don't have any VST effects, but Audacity cannot tell the difference between a VST effect and a LADSPA effect until it has scanned the .dll files. As it finds no VST effects, it will look again next time that you restart Audacity. If it finds a VST effect then it will stop scanning unless you specifically tell it to scan.

As you don't have any VST effects you can turn off VST support in "Edit menu > Preferences > Effects".

Alternatively, install a VST effect (any VST effect) - if you ever want to use Reverb, Anwida DX Reverb Lite is a nice VST reverb. http://www.anwida.com/product.asp?pid=7
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Re: Always scan VST at every Audacity launching

Post by hilow » Wed Jul 18, 2012 4:58 pm

Effectively, I've installed ANWIDA DX Reverb Light (VST edition) and it stopped to scan after having found it a first time. Thanks, Steve.
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