Hi Larry,

Thanks for your suggestions. Apologies if I didn't make it clear...

- I DID install Hi-Q and Sampletank on my Laptop - the VSTi is nowhere to be found (I am used to hunting for it on previous systems). It is both installed and authorised using Authorisation Manager. I also expected the Hi-Q installation program to ask me which plugins to install but it just went ahead and installed only the DXi one without giving me the option. I have searched for the VSTi on the entire C drive Sampletank*.dll (and various other permutations) without any luck. It's also not in the same location as my desktop PC. I can run ST2.5 standalone on my laptop and it runs ok (although the sounds are distorted - maybe due to the DXi plugin which I never normally use).

Thanks also for the links to the other threads. I have found with the desktop PC that there is some anomaly/confusion about where the ST2.5 Instruments folder is installed (different locations for the version 2.54 that I already had installed prior to BIAB and the one installed by the BIAB Hi-Q installer with the Band-In-A-Box sub folder)! BIAB itself even seems to get confused as I got an error message for some styles using Hi-Q instruments saying that the instruments folder was incorrect so when I corrected it in ST2.5 I then get errors in other styles saying it should be where I moved it from, lol!! It's almost as if different parts of BIAB refer to different locations for the Hi-Q Instruments folder.

Of course the main thing I forgot to say was that the Laptop is running Windows 8.1 and the main PC Windows 7.

Thanks again for your help.

Rec

Last edited by receder; 01/02/15 04:49 AM.
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