After several months of using free VST's I I've decided to purchase my first softsynth. I did some research, and read some user reviews and decided on the Zebra2. Right before I was going to buy I decided to try the demo just to make 100% sure it was what I wanted. I've tried for several days now and cannot, for the life of me, get it working.
I've installed about 20 previous VST's, so it's not like I don't know how to do it, but I simply cannot get it working. I've tried it in both Ableton Live 6.0.7 and Sony Acid Pro 6.0 and while it will recognize other VST's in the same exact folder, it will not pick up Zebra 2, Zebralette, or Zrev. I've tried rescanning the VST plug in folder, I've tried reinstalling, I've even tried putting it in a folder by itself and rescanning to no avail. My PC is sufficient with 2 gigs of ram, a good sound card with the latest drivers, a good processor, Windows XP, etc.
I really want to buy this synth since I've heard great things about it, but I'm holding off until I can at least get the demo version up and running. Can anybody please help me out?
Zebra 2 installation woes
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- KVRAF
- 5256 posts since 16 May, 2002 from Brisbane , Australia
I'm not sure this is helpful but this is the file location structure I have on my setup.
C:\Program Files\u-he\ (contains the "Zebra2" (This folder also contains "Data" and "Modules" folders), "Presets", "Tunefiles" and "Support" directories)
C:\Program Files\Steinberg\Vstplugins\u-he (simply contains the Zebra dll file)
C:\Program Files\u-he\ (contains the "Zebra2" (This folder also contains "Data" and "Modules" folders), "Presets", "Tunefiles" and "Support" directories)
C:\Program Files\Steinberg\Vstplugins\u-he (simply contains the Zebra dll file)
Intel Core i7 8700K, 16gb, Windows 10 Pro, Focusrite Scarlet 6i6
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- KVRian
- 1100 posts since 4 Aug, 2004 from Copenhagen, Denmark
I know this is a crazy shot but can your system perhaps see 2 instances of Zebra installation ?
Perhaps theres another old Zebra installation somewhere on your system.
/Michael
Perhaps theres another old Zebra installation somewhere on your system.
/Michael
www.xsynth.com - Sound Synthesis with Vintage flavour
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- u-he
- 30213 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin
Sounds pretty strange to me. Normally I'd say it's msvcr71.dll missing.
However, I had two or three cases before where it would just not work. No matter what, something seemed to conflict, maybe with one of the third party libraries I'm linking to, or with a mysterious setting in Microsoft something. If that's the case I'm sorry, I can't help it.
Does your processor support the SSE instruction set?
Urs
However, I had two or three cases before where it would just not work. No matter what, something seemed to conflict, maybe with one of the third party libraries I'm linking to, or with a mysterious setting in Microsoft something. If that's the case I'm sorry, I can't help it.
Does your processor support the SSE instruction set?
Urs