Hi there, I'm really new to Reaper and to DAWs in general so bear with me.
Downloaded Reaper recently and really enjoyed using it - I installed a few instrument VSTs and also connected it up so I could use my Ezdrummer with it. Worked great.
Then very recently Reaper stopped recognising my piano VST and Toontrack. Screenshot:
https://imgur.com/a/E53qw4F
The project file plays perfectly fine just minus the VST sounds (everything else I recorded acoustically).
Nothing has changed in terms of my PC files or where the VSTs were installed/stored. As I said, they worked perfectly fine so it's not a compatibility issue.
I'm using the 64 bit Reaper on Windows 8.
I've tried rescanning, resetting the cache, re-adding manually the VST location (including making new folders) and nothing has worked. Reaper doesn't seem to think these VSTs exist anymore.
Please help!
Edit: another thing, when I try to add any of the VSTs I get a pop-up "216 runtime error" message. Sometimes this physically crashes Reaper, other times it does not and I merely have to close it.