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  • Vienna Instruments do not work with DP4.61

    J
    J
    This is my conclusion since no one here is able to offer me any help getting this to work.
  • S
    S
    John:

    I can't figure out what's wrong. However, I am running OS 10.4.9 and, after reading your notes, tested DP 4.6.1 last night with Vienna Instruments 1.1.1. No problems of any kind, just loaded and played.

    One thing you might try: do you own a copy of Alsoft's DiskWarrior? If so, boot the computer from the CD and rebuild the directory of your startup disk. (If you don't have DiskWarrior I strongly recommend that you buy a copy since DiskWarrior is, IMO, THE essential Mac disk utility).

    In my experience, DiskWarrior fixes a lot of problems that no other disk utility even sees. For example, after I updated Altiverb 5 to Altiverb 6, Logic did not recognize Altiverb 6 and kept announcing tht Altiverb 5 was missing. Repairing permissions and running Apple's Disk Utility, did not fix this (Disk Utility found "nothing to repair" on the disk.)

    I then rebuilt the directory with DiskWarrior which reported only a couple of errors pertaining to two fonts (fonts not related to Logic). After this, Logic immediately recognized Altiverb 6. No AU recognition problems since then. I've had many similar experiences with DiskWarrior over the years. (e.g. something didn't work properly, rebuilt the directory with DiskWarrior, report didn't say much but things that hadn't been working worked properly..)
  • cmC
    VSL Team
    cmC
    stephen, this is a very good point - sometimes some seemingly unrelated issues prevent something else (and loose all your hair while searching for a reason)

    john, do you have the chance to install a second system on a spare volume and check out if it is really related to DP or just soething else just prevents it from functioning.
    christian
    and remember: only a CRAY can run an endless loop in just three seconds.
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    S
    Chrsitian:

    That's exactly how my hair fell out!!

    I'm not sure that DiskWarrior always reports everything it fixes - there have been times when it says it has fixed all errors "if any," but doesn't specify - and, nontheless, whatever was wrong was fixed. On the other hand it once reported that a boot disk that wouldn't start up had 301,000 + items "out of order." It then put them in order and the disk started up without delay or error. Also if you encounter a really bad problem that DiskWarrior's normal routines don't fix, you can call their Tech support. The TS person then tells you how to open a "secret" panel in DiskWarrior and after you tell him or her what you see, he or she may dictate some Unix code that does fix the problem. This is the path to the deeper mysteries...