VMS crashing at astartup loading a VST plugin

maxd wrote on 8/26/2012, 11:10 AM

hi,

just asking for advice really,

when VMS loads, it crashes averytime when it get to a particular VST plugin (Halion symphonic orchestra from steinberg) and i have to force reboot my system.

any ways of stopping loading this plugin, obviously i have it installed for other programs i use so do not want to uninstall the partucular plugin.

thanks for any advice

Tony

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vkmast wrote on 8/26/2012, 1:17 PM

Tony,
try the advice Markk655 gave you in the other thread and move the problem plug-in into an alternate VST plugins folder. See if you can then open the program. After that you should be able to set (in Preferences > VST Effects) your default and/or alternate VST search folder(s) and select the check box for each VST plug-in that you want to make available to your Movie Studio projects or clear a check box to exclude the plug-in. Of course you need to make sure your other programs have the correct search folders also, if you move anything.

maxd wrote on 8/26/2012, 1:33 PM

hi vk,

i cant open VMS at all, it crashes on startup because of this vst so cant even get to preferences,

vkmast wrote on 8/26/2012, 1:35 PM

Tony,
that's why you should have/create another folder and move the plug-in first.

maxd wrote on 8/26/2012, 2:29 PM

hi vk,

i moved the vst and then another vst caused VMS to crash. a bit ridiculous dont you think that i have to keep moving existing vst's.

ive uninstalled VMS now, it was a trial, was thinking of upgrading to v12 from 11, but not so sure now.

thanks again for all help, very much appreciated.

Tony

Markk655 wrote on 8/26/2012, 4:30 PM

Again, suggest to move all of the VST plugins out of the folder. Then relaunch SMS12. Hopefully that should get you into SMS12.