Verdict on Sound Forge 8?

[morelia]

The VST implementation is annoying. A REAL pain to scan for new plugins.

scan IS annoying, but hey- now they can be used in SF...I'm willing to wait a second or two

The problem is, the default scan folder (which can't be changed) is C/ProgramFiles/Vstplugins. How useful! If I set it to ProgramFiles/Steinberg/Vstplgins it finds about 3 plugins . If I search ProgramFiles/Steinberg it does the same. If I search C/ProgramFiles it find practically anything with a .dll which is ridiculous. It also uses differnt plugin name detection so that for example the W1 limiter by BetaBugs will show up as Stereo Compressor. I also have been unable to start it on numerous occasions because it crashes during the plugin scan which happens ever time i start it up. I then have to search for the offending plugin but usually it is not the problem and I can later put it back and SF starts up fine. Also sometimes a new plugin will automatically show up and other times not. Which means I have to go through the whole scan process again and re set up my favourite plugins folder. And (for now) last but not least I want to turn off the automatic scan at start and have a scan for new plugins up but there is no such feature.

And I have emailed Sony about this and there response was to invite me to a user forum where we would discuss potential improvements that could be implemented free of charge. NOT. No response was their response.

[arke]

SF8 works fine here. It's definetely not as fast as it was, and the VST handling is a bit stupid but its not bad enough for me to stop using it.

[autodafe]

SF8 is OK here. Upgraded from V6. I really like the "Batch" converter, using it a lot...

[morelia]

not bad enough for me to stop using it.

Same here I guess but if I had the funds I'd ditch it for Wavelab in a heartbeat.

[arke]

not bad enough for me to stop using it.

Same here I guess but if I had the funds I'd ditch it for Wavelab in a heartbeat.

i wouldn't, I know my way around SF just enough to do whatever I need to do. Its not like its a host that I use all the time, I just use it occasionally when I need to fix, slice, or f**k something.

[ew]

The problem is, the default scan folder (which can't be changed) is C/ProgramFiles/Vstplugins. How useful!

Untrue- it uses whatever's defined in your registry as your default VST folder. I can't remember which key it is at the moment.

SF lists my VST folder (E:/Steinberg/Vstplugins) as the default folder in the preferences.

ew

[bnmoore]

On my systems it's HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\VST with a String Value for VSTPluginsPath. I would prefer that hosts ask for a location. Sometimes I forget to kill the registry key before installing new hosts or updates and it's crash city. I don't really mind having multiple folders for plugins as I have a fairly specific list of what I want available where. It's sort of late in the game to make the default folder a dummy (empty) location here.

[morelia]

The problem is, the default scan folder (which can't be changed) is C/ProgramFiles/Vstplugins. How useful!

Untrue- it uses whatever's defined in your registry as your default VST folder. I can't remember which key it is at the moment.

SF lists my VST folder (E:/Steinberg/Vstplugins) as the default folder in the preferences.

ew

I'll look into this but if you are right then, I think I love you.