Dave You may do better to put the VST_PATH in your autoexec.bat file
that way you will just have to load the plugin~ or vst~ object
i would love to share some patches using VST with you if you care to.
I have some neat ones with Richard Dobson's Pv plugs and the newer ether and shapee plugins
Also i have made one with northpole which is rather nice too
cheers
 
Pat Pagano, Director
South East Just Intonation Society
http://www.screwmusicforever.com/SHREESWIFT/
----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Payling
To: pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 11:18 AM
Subject: [PD] Problem running VST~ object

Hi

I cannot get the VST~ object to work on my machine. Whenever I put a VST~ object in a new canvas it crashes.

I have set the path to search my VST plugin folder by adding the 'set VST_PATH....' in a batch file I use to run PD, is this the correct place to put it?

I have also tried variations on the path command by using '\' instead of  '/' but with the same result.

Here is my .bat file...

  pd -lib ../vst/Release/vst -noadc -midiindev 1 -midioutdev 1 set VST_PATH=D:\Program Files\Steinberg\Vstplugins

and here is the command line readout after I run it...

  VST host  by mark williamson
  contains source code from Psycle tracker
  Contact: mark@junklight.com  . website: http://www.junklight.com
  VSTLib: version: 0.1
  VSTLib compiled: May 7 2002

  open: No such file or directory
  No such file or directory
  open: No such file or directory
  No such file or directory

The 'no such file or directory' error only occurs when I include the set VST_PATH command, but the path is definitely correct.

Any help please?

Thanks in advance

Dave