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Old 09-13-2018, 06:50 AM   #1
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Default VSTs (32 bit) inactive and silent

I'm not sure if this is the right subforum for this, but I'll try anyway because the problem I report seems to be getting worse...

I'm running 64 bit REAPER with a number of 32 bit plugins that I regularly use (along with 64 bit plugins, of course). Until a couple of weeks (or months? - can't remember exactly) ago, everything worked fine using the built-in bridge to run old (or newer) 32 bit plugins in REAPER's 64 bit version. I have set up all 32 bit plugins (everything that is marked by "(x86)" in the FX browser) using the "Embed bridged UI" option under the "Run as" command. No problems so far.

But then something strange happened: Everytime I re-open a project, all or at least some 32 bit plug-ins I used in this project have lost their GUI and settings and won't let any sound pass through, so the entire track with these plugins is muted and the plugin(s) needs to be reloaded and set up again with all its previous settings (which I can't remember of course). All that is left of the plugin in the FX window is an empty window (see attached image). Switching over to the generic plugin interface (using the "UI" switch in the FX window) doesn't help - it is either empty or has a couple of sliders without names and functions.

64 bit plugins are not affected, as far as I can tell.

I doubt that this is related to particular buggy plugins, since it happens with old (and perhaps completely outdated) freeware plugins as well as commercial plugins such as the Fabfilter ProL.

Currently, I'm running the latest REAPER 5.95. It is possible (but I'm absolutely not sure about this) that this problem occurred for the first time after an update to one of the more recent REAPER versions, maybe from 5.80 to 5.90. I could downgrade to check this, but maybe there is a simple reason that can be fixed easily.

Any advice? How should I proceed to locate and solve this problem?
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Old 04-18-2019, 06:21 PM   #2
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I am having exactly same issue, but I can see the 32 bit plugins GUI, however the sound is not passing through them.
Any idea?
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Old 04-19-2019, 02:32 AM   #3
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I downgraded reaper to 5.40 and now it works so it must be something from an update.
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Old 04-20-2019, 03:34 AM   #4
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Very strange. For me, the problem turned up less frequently since I posted this problem (as I could replace most VST plugins to their 64 bit versions in the meantime), but it still happens every now and then with 32 bit VSTs. When it turned up for the first time, I also had the impression that downgrading to an earlier REAPER release improved the situation, but unfortunately I forgot about the details (which release did what etc.) since this is more than half a year ago now.
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Old 04-20-2019, 08:01 AM   #5
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Did you guys try uninstalling and reinstalling those 32bit plugs? All mine - admittedly not many these days -are working fine.
So a reinstall is worht a try, but DO make sure you uninstall the existing ones completely. I use IOBit`s Uninstaller, which will get just about anything 100%.
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