[DrProgNerd]

SUCCESS !!!!!!

Brad and Scott- thank you so much for your help. I genuinely feel that one of the greatest gifts we have to offer is our time. I appreciate your patience in helping me through this – and for giving part of your weekend to help a wayward newbie stranger. Lol !! Cheers to you both !!

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Thanked by: Brad

[DrProgNerd]

Just for clarification to your comment “I would manually delete the .dll and run the S3 plugin update (not any sound installers).”

For delete – just right click the Superior Drummer 3.dll>delete from the location:  PC > C: > Program Files > VSTPlugins > Toontrack ?

When you say “run the S3 plugin update” – where do I do that?

[DrProgNerd]

Found it here

[DrProgNerd]

Yes. It was right where you said it would be. That part is now taken care of.  *see attached*

Any idea how to fix the standalone?

[DrProgNerd]

I cannot access the SD3 Stand-alone – see first three attachments

I was able to go through the plugin in REAPER to make those changes – though Hansa doesn’t seem to ‘like’ the change – see fourth attachment

[DrProgNerd]

I got to the Superior Drummer Folder – by way of ‘Program Files (x86)’ – but it is empty.  *first attachment*

I checked Program Files – (not Program Files (x86)…) and it IS in there. *second attachment*

[DrProgNerd]

See attached

[DrProgNerd]

See the string of attachments

What I find curious is that these were installed before – as acknowledged by the Product Manager. If space wasn’t an issue THEN – why would it be NOW? Could it be that the library is already installed in a different location – which is why the space is taken up?

Operating system: Windows 10

[DrProgNerd]

This is what I get     *see attached*

[DrProgNerd]

I had them installed before so – in trying to solve the problem yesterday – I must have inadvertently uninstalled them. I did come across the ‘uninstall’ folders while I was looking at all of the SD3 folders. They asked if I wanted to ‘uninstall’ – and I’m sure I said “no” or ‘cancel’ …..but by now, I’m starting to question my own name – so anything’s possible.

For the purposes of troubleshooting: A.) they WERE installed at some point B.) it is within the realm of possibility that I uninstalled them in error.

The goofy part about the Hard Drive space issue – is that I just had this machine built a few months ago. I have the ‘C’-Drive that is 1 TB SSD. But I also have an additional 2 TB SSD built in. I had a buddy build it for the express purpose of recording with it. I can physically look through the clear panel on my computer and see the 2 TB SSD – but I can’t locate it in my ‘Tools>Settings>Storage’.

You are right about everything being in my ‘Downloads’. *see attached*

[DrProgNerd]

I rebooted

I ended up having to re-install Product Manager – because I was getting an error message on that too.

SD3 seems to be installed. *see attachment*

The libraries are not installed. *see attachment*

When I try to install them, I don’t have room in my Hard Drive…..but a large chunk of my HD space was used when I installed the libraries originally (?!?!)

Is it possible to have the libraries NOT installed – while simultaneously not being able to install them – because that space is being taken up by them being installed? Lol !!! I’m kidding of course ….sort of.

I’m willing to remove all things Toontrack from my computer and start from scratch – if that would be a fix….even though the install took the better part of a day the last time.

As long as SD3 is registered to my Toontrack account, I wouldn’t lose the product completely – would I? That is to say: I wouldn’t be asked to re-Register my SD3? Or maybe that wouldn’t be necessary. Thoughts?

 

 

Operating system: Windows 10

[DrProgNerd]

Success ……sort of. Original problem solved – new problem(s) present themselves.

Superior Drummer now appears in my plugin options in REAPER…

• When I select it, I get the option to route to multiple tracks. Perfect. That is what I want.
• When I click ‘Ok’ – multiple tracks populate in REAPER – SD3 opens in REAPER – along with a pop-up within SD3 that reads: “The requested sound library could not be loaded. Please select another sound library to proceed”.
• I click ‘Ok’. Blue print in top of SD3 reads: “No sound library loaded”. I select dropdown. ‘Manage Libraries’ is dithered. I click on the only other option available ‘Open Settings’
• When ‘Settings’ opens, both the SL-Hansarooms and the SL-Superior Drummer 3 say “Missing” under the ‘Installation’ heading – accompanied by the message; “C: is not available. Please change or remove the path.” – see attachment.

My stand-alone SD3 (which worked yesterday) – won’t pull up. I get a pop-up *see second attachment* > I click ‘Ok’ then get another pop-up *see third attachment*

If you haven’t run for the hills yet, I commend you.

Did I inadvertently uninstall something? Do I have to re-install SD3 completely?

Thanks again for any attention you’re willing to give to this.

-Russ

[DrProgNerd]

Thank you for your response. It didn’t work. I tried manually keying it into Preferences. REAPER says that I can have multiple paths – but that I need to separate them with a semi-colon. I addded a semi-colon after the existing path – so it looked like this:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steinberg\VstPlugins;C:\Program Files\VstPlugins\Toontrack\Superior Drummer 3.dll

I hit Re-Scan>Apply>Ok

I closed REAPER (as I have done every other time I added a new plugin) and re-opened it. Still no SD3

I tried the steps again – without closing it – no SD3

I’m sure it’s simply something I am doing – or did – wrong.  The standalone works.

Any other ideas?

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