Originally Posted By: receder
Hi Larry,

.... 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. ....
Rec



There is (to my reading of these various threads) confusion over HI-Q "the instruments," and SampleTank the application.

First, when HI-Q instruments are installed there is nothing to ask the user about where to install the Sampletank DXi, or even VSTi, because - it is not installing SampleTank - it is ONLY installing the HI-Q instruments (i.e., the sound sets).

PG supplied Hi-Q instruments are just that, instruments. A collection of samples with constructs to make them appear as a whole individual instrument. While they can only be played in SampleTank they ARE NOT part of Sampletank itself.

These Hi-Q sound sets when invoked within BIAB and by BIAB (i.e., excluding case where you manually insert/force ST DXi/VSTi to load one) cause BIAB to ALWAYS and ONLY "call up" the SampleTank DXi NOT the SampleTank VSTi. But you must still install (separately from the HI-Q install) the SampleTank DXi synth for them to work.

However, when YOU DO install the SampleTank DXi, which is selectable during the BIAB install - it is a check box install item (along with "Free Bonus," and "User Tracks sample files," and "IK Multimedia Authorization Manager," and about a dozen other install selection items) the DXi, being Direct X, can only install as the dictates of DirectX as mandated by MS (DirectX is a set of API's developed by MS after all) allow - and the rules on where these DirectX files are placed and what goes into the registry is, well I would think sort of defined by MS, not PG or IK MM.

Finally, I've re-looked at the supplied BIAB/RB full installer: it appears to ONLY install the SampleTank DXi synth- NOT the VSTi (or the standalone exe). It looks like if you want, or need,,the VSTi version (and I HIGHLY recommend it) you will have to get/use the SampleTank Free installer (or use your copy of your full up, paid for, version if you own it) and install it if you have not already. And on your laptop it sounds like you haven’t?

Even for JUST the DXi part of SampleTank to work you need to run the IK Authorization Manager - so just because the Authorization Manager ran and authorized doesn't mean you HAVE the VSTi installed.


Larry

Last edited by Larry Kehl; 01/03/15 07:27 AM.
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