OK, so I finally finished a run of nights, eagerly download from the ReFX link for Vanguard LITE expecting a night of sonic frivolity and general mucking about with my new toy. Hmmmmmm........

D/l'ed, unzipped, installed apparently OK - but open up Cubase (5.1) and it tells me Vanguard has crashed while trying to open.

To cut along harrowing disappointment short, I redownloaded a few times, re-installed several times and get the same message each time. It installs the .dll (ver 1.0) and the manual + presets into the right plugin folder but same problem.

I wondered if it's just that I can't d/l an uncorrupted version for some reason - The install doesn't ask me for the passkey (which I thought it would) - does your Vanguard ask you for your passkey at install or on first use of the plugin?

I'm on Cubase 5.1, Athlon 1.1 with 512 MB RAM, Win98SE. It's a pretty stable system usually.

Surely it's not that you have to delete the old version of JunoX2 before you install is it? I'm suspecting the d/l is corrupt, but I would assume it's the same link that other JunoX2 users were given? (And yes, before you ask, I did d/l the PC version

Bah! Now I'm really f***ed off. I was really looking forward to having a good play tonight - I even RTFM before firing up Cubase - which made it worse, because I got really excited about all the new oscillators and all the new LFOs that JunoX2 didn't have. Bah!

I've e-mailed ReFX, hopefully they'll have an idea, but I just wanted to know if anyone else had similar problems? Or is it just me and my f***ing spiteful computer.

I assume, that Michael has tested merely on Cubase SX / Nuendo.

Maybe the problem is the old "Cubase registration bug".
I can remember, that some plugins in the past caused the Cubase 3.6 to 5.1 to crash on first loading. Sometimes it is not possible to initialize or "register" a plugin successfully with this host...

The only advice, I can give You is to use an other host. For instance the free VSTHost. It also supports ASIO drivers now.

I tested Vanguard with success on it.

Oh god, I hope that's not the case. I'm certainly not going to change my host just for one VSTi

One of these days I'll upgrade to Cubase SX, but not yet - it doesn't have enough of the old features reintroduced yet to warrant me getting SX and consequently WinXP. I don't need WinXP and I don't want to go through all the shit that it involves upgrading my OS. And I'm not going to spend another 15 years learning a brand new host

I'll pin my hopes on it being a duff download (ever hopeful, I know ) But thanks for the suggestion - could be the case, I suppose.........anyone else loaded it up OK in preSX Cubase?

kritikon wrote:

... The install doesn't ask me for the passkey (which I thought it would) - does your Vanguard ask you for your passkey at install or on first use of the plugin?

The installer should ask for the passkey
when installing the Vanguard.

Btw. Works fine in my CubaseVST 5.1 under Win98.

Thanks nBeat

So I reckon it was just a dud d/l then. If ReFX can send me another link to a different one, hopefully I'll be sorted.

I'll just have to make do for the moment, and go and play with my MS20.....sigh

Ah well - life could be worse I suppose.

kritikon wrote:

I'll just have to make do for the moment, and go and play with my MS20.....sigh Ah well - life could be worse I suppose.

MS-20 ? GO PLAY !

You're not the only one haveing similar problems:

http://www.kvr-vst.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36646

Looks like we're all AMD users too.

Installed Vanguard Full last night on my P3 800e system running Win2K and Cubase VST 5.1r1 with no problems. Using ASUS CUBX motherboard here (really ancient I know but will be upgrading to a P4 system later this year).

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You're not the only one haveing similar problems: http://www.kvr-vst.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36646 Looks like we're all AMD users too.

Thanks for the link - I missed that one, I'll go have a look - so it's probably the mix of AMD + Win98 then? Damn.....I might have to seriously consider getting WinXP. I knew I'd have to eventually, but hopefully not so soon.

As an aside - Mike from ReFX got back to me pretty quickly (he might come up with a fix hopefully?). A big thumbs up for their support and quick replies....some companies you don't even get a reply from