A surprising observation about vst folderlocations

I really couldn't imagine that the vst- and  vsti-plugins folders locations had some connections to what soundcard you use. But this has to be a fact (??).
Refering to my primary post "Audition 3.01input latency":

After I replaced the Infrasonic card with the Lexicon card, Audition refused to insert miditracks. Auditon totally "freezed" when I tried to open a session including miditracks. Same thing when I tried to insert a new mditrack to a clean, empty session.

I have used several soundcards as long as I've been working with Audition 3, and I allways had my "Vst 3-part Folder" located outside of the Adobe Audition programfolder. On the same C-drive, but not inside the Audition folder.

Ok....after a couple of hours thinking I moved the "Vst 3-part folder" inside the Audition folder. After that everything worked.

My "Vst 3-part folder" includes (among other things) ezdrummer.dll. I have the whole EZ-Drummer soundlibrary in a folder called "Toontrack", also on the C-drive outside the Audition-folder, because this is the way I have managed to get the Ez-drummer work in Audition. Only the ezdrummer.dll file in the Audition-folder, all sounds and drumsets in the Toontrack-folder.

So everything seems to be associated with everything when you set-up a DAW. Arghh...

Well..everything is working fine now. Perhaps my observation is just "well-known facts and old news", but if not, maybe this can help somebody.

Peter 

Ok....after a couple of hours thinking I moved the "Vst 3-part folder" inside the Audition folder. After that everything worked.

Hmm... my experience of cause and effect (and a lot of experience with VSTs in Audition) indicates that these facts are very unlikely to be related.

In general, moving extra folders into the Audition folder really isn't a very good idea, as they aren't a part of the installation. And I've never come across anybody who's had a failure with Audition accessing VSTs - once the correct location to them was established. Most people just use the Steinberg default, but specifying a different path works just as well.

So if it's working now, and it wasn't before, I think you'd have to be looking for another explanation.

Hi Steve!

Yes, your'e probably right.

But although everything works perfect in this way, I don't like odd things going on in my enviroment, that I cannot understand. So I moved the "Vst 3part folder" back outside the "Adobe Audition 3.0 folder".
After this operation I opened the "Add/Remove Vst Directory" in Audition. The only path there was (of course) the previous:

C\:Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Audition 3.0

So I added the path:

 C\:Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Vst 3part

Now I had two paths in the "Add/Remove Vst Directory" and I pressed "Ok".

After this I opened "Refresh Effects List" and Audition did a scan.

Ok, everything still works perfect. I can add miditracks. I can find and use all Vst:s and Vsti:s.

The only (new) odd thing, is that when I open "Vst Plug-In Manager", there's a list of approximately 140 .dll-files. Everything from ""VXMPMetadata.dll" to  "regsresfr_FR.dll", which (by my knowledge) isn't Vst-effects or Vst-instruments.
Ok, but my real Vst and Vsti:s (appr. 40) are also in the end of the list. Of course I can enable only the .dll:s I know are Vst:s and Vsti:s. I can also enable all 140 .dll:s in the list. It makes no difference. Everything works both ways.

But just for possible problems in the future:

Do you think I'm still doing something wrong or stupid?

Peter

The path into the AA folder is probably the problem. It is assuming that all dlls in the AA folder are VST plugins.