Mac,

Previous to installing the vscvst which Andrew recommended, I did uninstall everything which referenced "Virtual Sound Canvas" in the Control Panel. Also, I had reset factory defaults several times.

But, your suggestion may have gotten me on the right track.

Browsing around my system, I did find a vsc.dll file in the Cakewalk VST Shared Plug-Ins folder. This is the same name as the file in the Roland / Virtual Sound Canvas folder. Curious - eh?

Although both files seemed to have the same size and create date, I noticed that their checksum was different. So, as an experiment, I copied the vsc.dll file from the roland directory to the Cakewalk directory (after saving the original of course!). I didn't see any entry for this in Control Panel.

I just tested opening and closing BIAB and the problem DXi Synth Settings dialog several times and, remarkably, didn't see any slowdown of the PC!!!

Thus, I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I'll get back to you after more extensive testing to let you know what happens.

Thanks for your advice - You must be and AudioMind genius!

-- Pete