Installation XFailsX Good For Dimension LE DXi

[sjoens]

Today I am reinstalling all Sonar apps from SHS7 to CbB on my Windows 10 system.  Windows just ran an update before this.

For some reason when I select only Dimension LE DXi to be installed, it installs the VSTi instead.  It was previously installed on this system with no issues so what's happening now?

 

Edit: Senior moment! 

Edited November 23, 2024 by sjoens

[Max Arwood]

DXi s are kind of hidden did you look for it too in the plugin manager?

[sjoens]

Yeah I found it.  Was confused by the installer.  I expected it to go in Cakewalk\Shared Dxi but the 32 bit dll goes in Cakewalk\Dimension LE and the VSTi goes in Cakewalk\Vstplugins\Dimension LE.

Oddly a different installation for the 64 bit DXi goes in C:\Shared DXi\Dimension LE, so they're all over the place.

Even more odd is Home Studio 7 has v1.3 2008 while Sonar 8 SE has the older v1.2 2007.  Both Sonars were released the same time in 2008.  I bought them both in 2009 about 3 months apart.

What this means is when I run the Sonar 8 installer for the VSTi it overwrites the Home Studio Dimension LE with an older version.  If I'd known this I could have deselected it during install.

Edited November 23, 2024 by sjoens

[sjoens]

Just found the 64 bit Sonar 8 installation process for Dimension is broken.  It installs the Multisamples but not Dimension.  And if I change the target folder it puts the samples in the default folder anyway.  There's a fix for v1.2 on the Knowledge Base site but even it's problematic.  A better fix is Dimension 1.5 update

Edited November 23, 2024 by sjoens