Vamp plugins not found [SOLVED]

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Vamp plugins not found [SOLVED]

Post by fas42 » Sat Jun 13, 2015 2:38 am

Hello, just joined up! Thanks for an excellent piece of software, but, just now having trouble getting Audacity 2.1.0 on Windows 8.1 to install those BBC Vamp plugins just referred to. On doing a rescan it picks up the presence of the Vamp .dll file, in the selection list, but there's nothing in any of the menus after restarting.

Any thoughts here?

Thanks,
Frank
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Re: Vamp plugins not found

Post by Gale Andrews » Sat Jun 13, 2015 1:37 pm

VAMP plugins will be in the Analyze Menu once you have installed them correctly.

See http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/an ... .html#vamp. So if you are on 64-bit Windows, create a folder "Vamp Plugins" (without the quotes) in C:\Program Files (x86)\ then put the downloaded files in that "Vamp Plugins" folder.

If you are on 32-bit Windows, create a folder "Vamp Plugins" (without the quotes) in C:\Program Files\ then put the downloaded files in that "Vamp Plugins" folder.


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Re: Vamp plugins not found

Post by fas42 » Sun Jun 14, 2015 5:19 am

Thanks for the response, Gale! Some progress made, I had updated my laptop, and hadn't realised that this was now a 64 bits Window, so inserting in Program Files (x86) made the difference. But ... I have 2 collections in that folder, the BBC and another lot from Queen Mary, University of London - and the latter installed, but not the BBC collection! The QM tools work, but nothing from BBC in the menu.

Any further thoughts? Thanks,
Frank

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Re: Vamp plugins not found

Post by Gale Andrews » Sun Jun 14, 2015 2:53 pm

Please give a link to the BBC Vamp plugins you want to use. As far as I know, Audacity only loads VAMP plugins whose output is suitable for a label track.

So if the plugin output is for example a pie chart or a waterfall plot, Audacity won't load the plugin.

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Re: Vamp plugins not found

Post by fas42 » Mon Jun 15, 2015 1:41 am

Okay, I specifically tried these because steve from the forum posted this, earlier this year:
As a test you could try these Vamp plugins from the BBC (they work here): https://github.com/bbcrd/bbc-vamp-plugins/releases
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Re: Vamp plugins not found

Post by steve » Mon Jun 15, 2015 12:54 pm

I used the 32-bit Linux versions. I'm not able to test other versions. They appear in Audacity's "Analyze" menu, but the names in the menu are a bit cryptic and it takes a bit of time and effort working out what they do and how to use them.

Here's the link: https://github.com/bbcrd/bbc-vamp-plugins/releases
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Re: Vamp plugins not found

Post by Gale Andrews » Mon Jun 15, 2015 6:59 pm

10 "Rhythm" plugins and one "Energy" plugin from that v1.1 set are seen by Audacity 2.1.0 on Mac and Linux (32-bit).

The V1.1 plugins for Windows appear to be corrupt, according to Sonic Visualiser. I raised an issue at https://github.com/bbcrd/bbc-vamp-plugins/issues/3.

So for now all you can do is use the V1.0 plugins for Windows: https://github.com/bbcrd/bbc-vamp-plugi ... indows.zip.


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Re: Vamp plugins not found

Post by fas42 » Tue Jun 16, 2015 1:41 am

Excellent, the V1.0 plugins for Windows worked! Thanks for the help, all - trust me to unearth a bug elsewhere, ;) .

Cheers,
Frank

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Re: Vamp plugins not found

Post by Gale Andrews » Tue Jun 16, 2015 3:27 pm

The v1.1 plugins for Windows have now been fixed and re-uploaded by the developer.

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Re: Vamp plugins not found [SOLVED]

Post by fas42 » Thu Jun 18, 2015 5:35 am

Confirmed v1.1 operational!

Thanks again,
Frank

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