Basic install location question: I’m on Win 7 64 bit. Like I’m sure many others, I keep 32 bit and bit VSTIs in different locations, and my 32 bit and 64 hosts are set up to look in the corresponding directories. I use what are apparently the standard locations, the same ones documented here: https://www.toontrack.com/helpdesk/issue_view_portal.asp?ID=1453 They are: 64 bit: C:ProgramFilesVstPlugins 32 bit: C:ProgramFiles(x86)VstPlugins I’m about to install EZDrummer. It says I have to install the 32 bit version first, then upgrade it to 64. If my initial install is in the 32 bit location, then that gets upgraded in place, it’ll be in the 32 bit location. It wouldn’t get seen by 64 bit hosts, and would be seen by 32 bit ones, not good. If instead I do the initial 32 bit install into the 64 bit dir, that’s wrong too. Does the 64 bit upgrade modify the existing 32 bit install in place? Or does it install the 64 bit version somewhere else, leaving the 32 bit version where it was, and still 32 bit? That’s what I’d hope, but I don’t see any info anywhere about this. Of course I could just try it, but by then it’ll already have done a whole bunch of stuff I may need to uninstall and reinstall to fix. This seems like an obvious question to ask. It would be super helpful if the install docs were explicit about what to do, and what will happen.
The only difference between the 32-bit installation and 64-bit ‘upgrade’ is the installation of the 64-bit EZdrummer.dll. It will be installed in the 64-bit location and you can set the path in your host. The 32-bit version will still be available.
Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor
I don’t know what host you are using but in Cubase I have the 64-bit plugin installed in the same place as all other 64-bit plugs: C:Program FilesSteinbergVSTPlugins Cubase will automatically ‘see’ it there. If your location C:ProgramFilesVstPlugins works with your host then obviously install the 64-bit plugin there. Mauri in Very Hot Australia.
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Thanks Scott. After reading the upgrade docs, which it finally occurred to me I could do before installing the 32 bit version, duh, I was sure enough that it would act like that to go ahead, and it did. All sorted. Sometimes what you actually have ot *do* is simple, but uncertainty and not wanting to make a mess slows you down. OTOH, sometimes you just plow ahead, and something stupid happens. (Like having all the NI Komplete dlls at the root level of /Program Files/VSTPlugins, instead of inside an NI folder. Which doesn’t hurt anything, I just don’t like it, and wouldn’t have done it that way if I’d known what the installer was going to do given the settings I told it.) Thanks again, Dave
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