Hi there
Well this is my first post, I wish it was a bit more positive a reason to post.
I was reading the posts on modelling natural resonence when Pianoverb got mentioned so took inspiration & DLed it. No problem. The thing is when I run the installation file it bring up the setup page, tells me it's looking for files and crashes!
Can anyone tell me what is going on & how can I rectify it
Thanks
Garry

I noticed the same thing with the other freebies and demos on the PSP site. The first couple times, I assumed the computer had crashed, because after saying "Searching for Files" it didn't do anything for a few minutes, so I aborted it.

Then I tried letting it go, and after about five minutes (on a 1.8 ghz machine with a lot of files), it finally got past it and continued with the installation.

I think the installer just has a really slow algorithm that is searching the entire hard drive or something. But if you're patient, it DOES eventually recover.

Well it's good someone has the patience to wait for these things to happen I'll give a go.
Thanks

Yup - I had that problem when I installed PianoVerb, Vintage Meter, and the Vintage Warmer demo. I was so sloppy I had to reinstall them 2 more times before I could uninstall them.

I don't get the installer for something like Vintage Meter anyways. I ended up making a copy of the .dll and just sticking it in my VstPlugins directory.

Well that was very successful
I think it must taken around 3 minutes to scan the files.
Cool

Does anybody else wonder what the hell it's doing during that time?

pough wrote:

Does anybody else wonder what the hell it's doing during that time?

Well, there are two possibilities I can think of:

a) They're looking for a non-standard vst plugins directory so they can set the default installation directory to it.

b) They're up to no good. For example, they might be looking for cracked
versions of their commercial plug-ins.

Most likely the answer is A, however doing a recursive search of the disk takes forever on most real systems (as opposed to the clean harddrives they're testing on). They *should* check for the existence of some commonly used default directories before resorting to a recursive search, or better yet, skip the search entirely.