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hi. i have a simple question. does that basically mean we windows 7 64 bit users cannot record with guitar rig on audacity since audacity only support 32 bit ? please let me know. or is there a way to make it work? thanks

Audacity does not do "real time" effects.

You may be able to use the stand alone version of Guitar Rig and then record it by "recording sounds that are playing on your computer": http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... puter.html

If you have difficulty getting that to work, then it may be better to use Guitar Rig as a VST plug-in. To do that you will need to use a suitable "host" program (not Audacity as Audacity does not support real time effects). A good low cost option is Reaper. There are many other VST host programs to choose from including Cubase and Sonar.

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This all worked great (Win7x64, Guitar Rig 5, Audacity 2.1.0) when I first installed yesterday. But Audacity crashed today when using another VST. Since then it has refused to recognise Guitar Rig again.

I have recopied the Guitar Rig dll into the audacity plugins directory. I have reinstalled Audacity. Rebooted the computer. Got audacity to re read its preferences many times, but no joy.

Checked my Cubase installation - Guitar rig still working fine there.

Installed vst bridge for audacity (didn't have it before). No benefit.

Any suggestions anyone?

Thanks,

Len

LenB wrote:Installed vst bridge for audacity (didn't have it before). No benefit.

You should remove VST bridge. That was for long obsolete versions of Audacity. Instructions for installing VST effects in the current 2.1.0 version of Audacity are here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... st_install

Thanks for trying to help.

VST Bridge is now removed with no change in the problem. I only installed it after the problem first emerged anyway.

I can't find anything new in the FAQ pages link you enclosed. The Guitar rig dll is in the correct directory. And it did work. Wonderfully. At first. It is just that it has stopped doing so.

LenB

Quit Audacity. Follow the instructions at http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/pr ... tml#stored to open Users\<your user name>\AppData\Roaming\Audacity\ then delete pluginregistry.cfg and pluginsettings.cfg as well as audacity.cfg.

If you have not already uninstalled the VST plugin that crashes Audacity, make sure you do not check (do not tick) that plugin in the Register Effects dialogue.

Let us know if that helps. Can you share the name and web address of the VST plugin that crashed Audacity? Does it crash when you enable it in Register Effects, or when you access it from the Effect Menu?


Gale

Hi Gale,

Thanks for the help.

Yes, I tried this trick with the cfg files yesterday while I was waiting for my post to be approved on the forum and get a reply. I have just repeated it. Deleted the cfg files and run Audacity to rebuild them with nothing extra in the plugin directory. Then put the Guitar rig dll in the plugin directory as the only addition and restarted. It gets recognised by audacity at start up, but does not appear on the effects menu afterwards. No change.

The vst causing the initial crash was dfx Geometrer. Downloaded so long ago I no longer know where from, but google helped me refind it here: http://destroyfx.smartelectronix.com/ All the other dfx fx work well and still work well with audacity.

Len

Sorry, yes, it caused the crash when opened in Audacity, not on program start up.

Len

Final - I have just tried using Geometer again, and it works just fine in audacity at present. Guitar rig on the other hand, remains absent.

Len