Well I'm certainly exploring areas I never knew of!

Have gone through authorisation process IK media, got all the free stuff including Amplitube 4. But I understand this is 64bit and no use to me?

However looking in the C:\ program (86) folder/IK media/amplitube I find Amplitube 3 already sat there with another .dll file, namely libsndfile-1.dll.

When I go back to Real Band it still will not load vst plugins, same error message comes up.

I have done a search in IK media folder for the libiomp5md.dll file but no result.

Some progress so thanks for that. Any other thoughts?