Audio Plug in Manager missing?

[cjack99]

Folks, I need some help here.  The Audio Plug in Manger does not show up in the Effect drop down, nor does it show up in the Effects panel, I think it's missing.....

I'm stumped.  I know vst plug ins have to be enabled before they show up as usable, but the place where I always used to enable that was in "Audio effects manager", and now that has gone missing.

History: I purchased Adobe Audition several years ago, as in 12 years ago or so, before they stopped support.  Been using it for years and then suffered a HDD crash a couple years ago, got a new hard drive installed, tried to install Audition and discovered I could no longer license it.  Inertia set in but during the summer I really needed it, so I tracked down the download site and was successful in getting it installed and running under Win10.  Have been using it for several months, and now I need my favorite plug-ins for mastering, and no where can I find the plug in manager so it can be enabled.

All that displays in the Effects drop down (regarding vst) is the following 3 options: "Add / Remove VST Directory..."; "VST Plug in Manager" (I know what you're thinking, bear with me....); And "Refresh Effects List".

I assumed of course that it was now called VST Plug in Manager vs Audio Plug in Manger, and when selected it will scan the appropriate directories and I can click to enable the ones I want, but that's all it does, ever time it's clicked it scans and that's it. 

So - If the "Audio" is now "VST", the question becomes, how does one actually select and launch one of the plug ins?  From my ancient memory I recall just going to Effects drop down and picking the desired plug in off the effects list, but nothing I have enabled displays, so I can't get them to run.

Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks!

cactus

[cjack99]

Ah well, I can't blame this on MS, I was leaning that way, until I did the install on the laptop.  Win XP has not been supported in ages, and that laptop has been off the air for over 2 years, probably more like 4, so it's a time capsule, pristine, untouched, and I did the install fresh from the Adobe site.  And the result is exactly the same as my install on my win10 pc.  That means It can't be MS, they have not down loaded anything to that laptop in years, and 3.01 was running super fine under XP when I was using it back several years ago.  I'm going to have a chat with Adobe, probably a waste, but I'm going to see what they say, I'll report back here.....

[cjack99 · Accepted solution]

Well well well, solved, part 1 - may not even need to solve part 2, but we'll see.  HOW?

Went to the Image Line page, and after some mucking about, got my memory refreshed, as I've used Maximus on and off for a pretty long time, and I'd forgotten some things, such as, once you purchase from them, they remember forever, and don't do crappy things like shut down a licensing server.  Yeah, that's a dart at Adobe, I maintain and will always maintain they gave the shaft to a whole lot of people by the way they handled Audition licensing.

Anyway, after I logged on to Image Line, there was my account, and since THEIR policy is free updates forever, I downloaded and re-installed the latest version of FL Studio and IL-Max.  Then I went back into Audition and deleted all the vst directories and added in the Image Line directory, ran plug in manager, and there it was, IL-max, enabled it, and there appeared "VST" in the effects menu, just after "Unsupported".

So my primary go to VST is back.  I still have to find several sub-directories of specific settings for various files I have mastered over the years, but the hard part is done, yippee.  I also have to find some of my other VST's like the noise reduction ones, but I think I'm in the ball park now, that will be solved part 2 which I'll work on.

So, thanks again to Steve and ryclark for their inputs.  I greatly appreciate their patience.  ryclark, for what it's worth, when did the test install of Audition on the old laptop, it too came up with the out of memory error (which is documented on the Adobe site btw), I just ignored it by closing the error box and went ahead with the install, which completed a lot slower than on my new PC, but it did complete and operates apparently fine.  I've since pulled it off the laptop, as it was only used as a test bed to help my sanity.

Cheers, and thanks!

Cactus

[mandeepb17353831]

Is there an easier option?