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sten
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by sten » Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:00 pm
steve wrote:If you don't use VST or LADSPA plug-ins then you may as well disable them. You don't need to manually edit the audacity.cfg file to do that, you can do it through the graphical interface: Edit menu > Preferences > Effects". The built-in Audacity effects will still be available.
I have the LADSPA (got it right this time!) plug-ins. I have no VST plug-ins. I did disable them via the ui. For curiosity's sake, I checked my other computer, which far as I know has no VSTs either, and its cfg had no "Rescan=0" entry. Yet it doesn't rescan every loading. Doon't knoow.
Anyways, thanks.
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Gale Andrews
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by Gale Andrews » Fri Oct 12, 2012 3:16 am
sten wrote:I have the LADSPA (got it right this time!) plug-ins. I have no VST plug-ins. I did disable them via the ui. For curiosity's sake, I checked my other computer, which far as I know has no VSTs either, and its cfg had no "Rescan=0" entry. Yet it doesn't rescan every loading. Doon't knoow.
Possibly it has a VST plug-in somewhere on the system - you could check to see if plugins.cfg is empty or not. If it is empty, then either the scan is not happening, or it is happening so fast that you don't see it - which is possible if Audacity only has the shipped DLL files it came with.
Gale
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sten
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by sten » Sat Oct 13, 2012 5:14 am
Gale Andrews wrote:Possibly it has a VST plug-in somewhere on the system - you could check to see if plugins.cfg is empty or not. If it is empty, then either the scan is not happening, or it is happening so fast that you don't see it - which is possible if Audacity only has the shipped DLL files it came with.
Gale
This is interesting. There are entries in the ini - but none of those exist in the plug-ins folder. Either way, it's the same I guess.
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Gale Andrews
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by Gale Andrews » Sun Oct 14, 2012 4:02 am
sten wrote:There are entries in the ini - but none of those exist in the plug-ins folder.
You can check in plugins.cfg what the path to those plug-ins is. If the plug-ins are moved or deleted, plugins.cfg does not get updated until rescan.
Gale
