kevro2000 Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 (edited) As a part of my Focusrite Scarlett experience, I downloaded for free the Ujam Iron Virtual Guitarist. It installed successfully, and shows up on my hard drive, but I cannot seem to find it when I've got CW open, and "insert new instrument." It should be working great. Its not the only VSTi, or VST effect that I cannot find. I'm not at my CW machine, so I cannot look up what specific VST affects/instruments are MIA. Most of them do work, and work well, I might add. Since I wanted to play w/the UJam this past weekend, and it not working, I am wondering if anyone else has experienced this. Thx. Edited January 25, 2020 by kevro2000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tecknot Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 It might be a matter of where you installed Ujam on your hard drive. Perhaps you need to add its path to CW's VST Scan Paths or simply scan your VSTs. Kind regards, tecknot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulo Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Long time ago now, but IIRC I had a similar problem with UJAM products in the usual VST location (the dll's were there but the scan ignored them for some reason) and had to move them to their own folder and add that to the VST scan path and then they were picked up. No idea of why it made it should make any difference, but might be worth a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZincT Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 (edited) 13 hours ago, kevro2000 said: As a part of my Focusrite Scarlett experience, I downloaded for free the Ujam Iron Virtual Guitarist. It installed successfully, and shows up on my hard drive, but I cannot seem to find it when I've got CW open, and "insert new instrument." It should be working great. Its not the only VSTi, or VST effect that I cannot find. I'm not at my CW machine, so I cannot look up what specific VST affects/instruments are MIA. Most of them do work, and work well, I might add. Since I wanted to play w/the UJam this past weekend, and it not working, I am wondering if anyone else has experienced this. Thx. Have a look in the browser in CbB (press B shortcut) then select the Plugins / Instruments menu and type "iron" in the search bar. If it's not showing then chances are you haven't included the right location in the VST scanner. On my system it was installed to: c:\program files\vstplugins\UJAM\ so check that yours is also there and if so make sure c:\program files\vstplugins it is included in your VST Scan Paths (press P then VST Settings) and rescan. Edited January 21, 2020 by ZincT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevro2000 Posted January 22, 2020 Author Share Posted January 22, 2020 10 hours ago, ZincT said: Have a look in the browser in CbB (press B shortcut) then select the Plugins / Instruments menu and type "iron" in the search bar. If it's not showing then chances are you haven't included the right location in the VST scanner. On my system it was installed to: c:\program files\vstplugins\UJAM\ so check that yours is also there and if so make sure c:\program files\vstplugins it is included in your VST Scan Paths (press P then VST Settings) and rescan. Yep, I'll give that a try this weekend, when I get back to that machine. I know, due to double-checking, that the files are in c:\program files\vstplugins, and that folder is in scan path. If this works, I'll come back and mark the post as solved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevro2000 Posted January 25, 2020 Author Share Posted January 25, 2020 On 1/21/2020 at 8:30 AM, ZincT said: On my system it was installed to: c:\program files\vstplugins\UJAM\ so check that yours is also there and if so make sure c:\program files\vstplugins it is included in your VST Scan Paths (press P then VST Settings) and rescan. ZincT, You were correct. For some reason, Ujam Iron had self-installed to some place on my drive called "VTRoot," which I cannot view from Windows Explorer. I could only find it using the search software, "Everything." I certainly did not choose that as an installation path, but that did certainly fix it... its loaded in CW, and me and my MIDI keyboard are ready to play!! Thanks for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevro2000 Posted January 25, 2020 Author Share Posted January 25, 2020 On 1/20/2020 at 9:41 PM, tecknot said: It might be a matter of where you installed Ujam on your hard drive. Tecknot, you were correct, as well. I just could not see that Ujam had installed to some weird location on my hard drive "C:\VTRoot." All taken care of now, Thanks for your input! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZincT Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 12 minutes ago, kevro2000 said: ZincT, You were correct. For some reason, Ujam Iron had self-installed to some place on my drive called "VTRoot," which I cannot view from Windows Explorer. I could only find it using the search software, "Everything." I certainly did not choose that as an installation path, but that did certainly fix it... its loaded in CW, and me and my MIDI keyboard are ready to play!! Thanks for your help! No problem kevro2000. Glad you got it sorted ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Robles Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 Hello. I don't know where to post this question but to this day I have not been able to get vg-iron to work. I can hear it in the vg-iron box that opens up but the step sequencer does not make a sound. Any clues on this from anyone? Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevro2000 Posted November 21, 2020 Author Share Posted November 21, 2020 18 minutes ago, Erik Robles said: I can hear it in the vg-iron box that opens up but the step sequencer does not make a sound. Any clues on this from anyone? Thank you. Erik, I put VG-Iron in an instrument track. Keyboard (piano, or mouse clicks on the virtual keyboard) causes the chord progressions/rhythm guitars to play. I can then record like any other. I've never tried using step-sequencer with it, sorry. Perhaps, with us keeping the thread alive, and bumped-up on the list, we can get more definitive answers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Robles Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 (edited) Thank you @kevro2000. I did that before and it doesn't even give me an audio track. I can clearly hear the virtual instrument when I click on the keys. What a great sound. But if I try to record or use the step sequencer, I get nothing. What a bummer. I am with only 12 days left of the trial and still no joy on this plugin. Hopefully someone has some insight. Maybe I installed it wrong or not configuring my inputs/outputs correctly. P.S. I failed to mention that I do not have a midi instrument or controller. I only have a computer keyboard and do not know if what I am trying to do is possible. Edited November 21, 2020 by Erik Robles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevro2000 Posted November 22, 2020 Author Share Posted November 22, 2020 2 hours ago, Erik Robles said: P.S. I failed to mention that I do not have a midi instrument or controller. I only have a computer keyboard and do not know if what I am trying to do is possible. Erik, I think I used an outboard MIDI keyboard synth to control (Ensoniq TS10) . But, I use the virtual keyboard all the time with vst instruments, and they seem to work well for me. Hope someone can shed some light on the subj for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Robles Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 14 minutes ago, kevro2000 said: Erik, I think I used an outboard MIDI keyboard synth to control (Ensoniq TS10) . But, I use the virtual keyboard all the time with vst instruments, and they seem to work well for me. Hope someone can shed some light on the subj for you Thank you. I will keep my fingers crossed. Thank you again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandon Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 On 1/21/2020 at 12:08 AM, kevro2000 said: As a part of my Focusrite Scarlett experience, I downloaded for free the Ujam Iron Virtual Guitarist. It installed successfully, and shows up on my hard drive, but I cannot seem to find it when I've got CW open, and "insert new instrument." It should be working great. Its not the only VSTi, or VST effect that I cannot find. I'm not at my CW machine, so I cannot look up what specific VST affects/instruments are MIA. Most of them do work, and work well, I might add. Since I wanted to play w/the UJam this past weekend, and it not working, I am wondering if anyone else has experienced this. Thx. Hi - when you say you downloaded it for free is it a demo version or the full working copy as I have Focusrite Scarlett(s) and havent seen this before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevro2000 Posted November 22, 2020 Author Share Posted November 22, 2020 8 hours ago, brandon said: Hi - when you say you downloaded it for free is it a demo version or the full working copy as I have Focusrite Scarlett(s) and havent seen this before? Brandon, It was a part of the plugin-collective offerings that rotate every month to two months for free software from focusrite and different companies. Its been several months ago. AFAIK, you can only access whatever the current offering is. It is usually full program, not demo, or trial-ware. Here's the link to the software, U have to be signed in to ur account. Use this one to find the current software to download, and install from. As of today, the current proggy is DEVASTATOR. https://customer.focusrite.com/en/my-software The next link shows u the current software for download, plus the past ones. https://focusrite.com/en/plugin-collective Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandon Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 Thanks I seem to have missed it by a few days. which is a shame. I didnt receive notification from Focusrite for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevro2000 Posted November 22, 2020 Author Share Posted November 22, 2020 I just check every so often: I never receive a notification from focusrite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 I almost pulled the trigger on Iron when it was on sale recently. Already had Sparkle. But I went with Carbon as it was more similar to the new UI for the UJAM basses v2.0. I think that the other guitars may get a version refresh soon, which should include the finisher, as well as the instrument mode. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandon Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 1 hour ago, kevro2000 said: I just check every so often: I never receive a notification from focusrite. I just found out its easy to enter your email address and you will get notifications of future freebies. The Ujam was a steal - am peaved I missed it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevro2000 Posted November 22, 2020 Author Share Posted November 22, 2020 1 hour ago, brandon said: I just found out its easy to enter your email address and you will get notifications of future freebies. The Ujam was a steal - am peaved I missed it. Where do u do that at? I just glanced, didn't see an option, but I may have missed or am on the wrong web page.Thanx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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