BigTick

Big Tick · Post by **Big Tick** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 9:21 pm

Here's a new Zen update, with a new feature - automatic scan of available VST plugins. Zen is now able to find your supported plugins in your VST folder.

In addition, this release fixes crashes when entering text data in Reaper, so make sure you install the update !

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 10:15 pm

Cool thanks

TFF · Post by **TFF** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 4:29 am

I like the new feature. I'm having two issues though:
1) Zen crashes during scanning...I assume a certain plugin is causing it to choke up. Is there a crash log or anything I can check?
2) For certain reasons, I have my vst plugins distributed between two separate folders. Is there anyway Zen could be made to scan more than one folder?

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 5:22 am

On second thoughts scanning seems counter productive when all I want is specific synths and scans can often crash hosts on scan plus take forever - can it be turned off and just use the old method? - once I've loaded a dll it remembers it anyway so I don't need scanning of things I don't need to load - thanks

koalaboy · Post by **koalaboy** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 5:24 am

TFF wrote:Is there anyway Zen could be made to scan more than one folder?

This would be very useful, especially if the folders could be configured on a per-host basis.

Big Tick · Post by **Big Tick** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:12 am

The old method is still there, you don't have to scan. Just select the synths you want in the list, and specify the dll as required.

The log file is in C:\Documents and Settings\<name>\Application Data\Big Tick\zen, there should be information about scanned plug-ins in zen.log.

The scan takes place in the background, so once you've hit "scan" you can close the config window and use Zen immediately.

In order to specify several folders, just edit zen.properties and use a semicolon as a separator, like this (note the forward slashes):
zen.vstPluginsFolder: C:/Program Files/VstPlugins; C:/Vst

'Tick

moss · Post by **moss** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 6:55 am

Thanks for the scan function!

I noticed 2 crashes with plugins:

1) reacontrolmidi-standalone.dll which is part of the Cockos plugins: http://reaper.fm/reaplugs/index.php

2) VL1: http://www.polyvalens.com/vl1/download.html

BTW: The confirmation dialog to overwrite the database in the installation program is a little bit dangerous, I already clicked overwrite once. Maybe it would be better to have a (unchecked) checkbox.

Big Tick · Post by **Big Tick** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 8:02 pm

ok I have fixed these 2 crashes and will upload VL1 programs soon, stay tuned for 1.6.5

moss · Post by **moss** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 6:21 am

Wow, great! Thanks!

jens · Post by **jens** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 5:09 pm

Thank you very much for the update, sir!

However tbbh I think the scanning is pretty much useless as it is now, because Zen doesn't appear to create a scanlog, so when it crashes during scanning, it always restarts the whole scan-process instead of ignoring the dodgy plugin and continuing from where it crashed.

Big Tick · Post by **Big Tick** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 5:11 pm

hold on, scanlog is coming.

jens · Post by **jens** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 9:27 am

elv · Post by **elv** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:21 pm

There seems to be a problem with the 64bit version og Z3ta.
i get plugin not found error and Effect mismatch error

Big Tick · Post by **Big Tick** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:26 pm

They may have changed the plugin ID in the newer version. Which ID is reported by Zen ?

elv · Post by **elv** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 6:29 pm

Hi Tick and so sorry for the late reply.
The ID that Zen says the 64bit version has is 00000000 ()

Was just expermenting with windows 7 64 bit.And I really just hate it.
Gonna wipe that pc and install XP

BigTick

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