Product Reviews by KVR Members

I've been using Synth1 Librarian for about a year, and it sure makes finding a patch for Synth1 a lot easier. When I first installed it, it worked perfectly. However, now it will not load at all and I can't figure out why.

I have a Win 10 pro machine, 8 core, 16 G RAM. I use Reaper as my DAW but also Cantabile 3 as a VST host. I had not changed anything on the computer, but Windows updates are notorious for messing up existing software. And I think that's what happened here. Also tried another computer... more on that later.

Here's what happens... when I run Reaper, it will find Synth1's dll fine and will run the plugin... but it will not show the librarian at all! It does, however, show Neutrino Sky in the developers list. There are no errors given or any reason.

What I've tried so far...

1. re-installed synth1 (downloaded it again from author's website... same version that I already had).

2. re-installed the librarian (I downloaded the newest version .exe).

3. put Synth1 in the SteinbergVstplugins folder, and ran the Librarian setup from there.

4. ran the init for synth1.

5. started Reaper... cleared and re-scanned the vst's.

6. Reaper shows Synth1, but NOT Synth1 Librarian.

Same as before (and I've tried both the 32 and 64-bit versions of Reaper... makes no difference) on my Window 10 Pro desktop machine.

However... I also have it on a laptop running a Win 10 update from Win 7. I seldom use this machine anymore because it's getting old and slow. But I still have Reaper on it and a lot of my free plugins, including Synth1 and Librarian. When I tried to use the Librarian on Reaper on this machine, it took about 3 - 4 minutes to load the Librarian, but it did finally load and I was able to select presets from it.

Sorry for that longwinded intro... but I'm wondering if anyone familiar with Win 10 Pro might have an idea what I could look for? I really don't think it's a problem with the librarian app... but another example of MicroSoft's updates messing up our computers (which they seem perfectly ok with!).

Thanks for any help.

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