[Investingating] Roland GrooveSynth DXi plugin is missing in Sonar Artist

[Droomsfeer]

If I go to "Utilities > Cakewalk Plug-In Manager > DirectX Instruments (DXi)", the GrooveSynth plugin is not listed. Only three plugins are listed: Cakewalk TTS-1, Cyclone, Groove Player. When trying to open the "Acid Techno" template, I also receive a message that the plugin could not be found and it may be missing or improperly installed. This clearly cannot be the case, since I'm running a fresh installation of Sonar Artist. Also, in Music Creator 6 Touch and Sonar X3 the plugin was also not visible/usable.

The location of GrooveSynth is:
C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\Cakewalk\Shared DXi\P5antom

This folder contains all files needed to run the plugin, so it is installed. However, Sonar does not see the plugin, even after adding the specific folder and re-scanning all plugins.

Are there more people with this problem?
How can it be solved?

[GibsonPro-Audio]

Originally posted by Wootson:

If I go to "Utilities > Cakewalk Plug-In Manager > DirectX Instruments (DXi)", the GrooveSynth plugin is not listed. Only three plugins are listed: Cakewalk TTS-1, Cyclone, Groove Player. When trying to open the "Acid Techno" template, I also receive a message that the plugin could not be found and it may be missing or improperly installed. This clearly cannot be the case, since I'm running a fresh installation of Sonar Artist. Also, in Music Creator 6 Touch and Sonar X3 the plugin was also not visible/usable.

The location of GrooveSynth is:
C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\Cakewalk\Shared DXi\P5antom

This folder contains all files needed to run the plugin, so it is installed. However, Sonar does not see the plugin, even after adding the specific folder and re-scanning all plugins.

Are there more people with this problem?
How can it be solved?

This is an older plug-in that has difficulty registering sometimes in newer distribution of windows.

Check out the ReWire topic in this thread: http://steamcommunity.com/app/293140/discussions/0/618453594745144916/

If you substitute the path you mentioned above, and the P5antom.dll instead, you may be able to forcefully register it.

Make sure you launch the cmd prompt as Admin. Also, make sure any pending windows updates are finished. Sometimes they'll hold the register service preventing files from being registered.

[Droomsfeer]

Thanks for responding so quickly!

I've tried this tried just yet, but it does not work. Message:

"The module P5antom.dll failed to load. Make sure the binary is stored at the specified path or debug it to check for problems with the binary or dependent .DLL files. The specified module could not be found."

However, the same commands do work for registering GroovePlayer. So it must be a problem specific to the GrooveSynth plugin.

[Droomsfeer]

Correction: Groove Player is also not visible in the list.
"Insert > Soft Synth > DirectX"
Only Cakewalk TTS-1 and Cyclone are visible there.

[GibsonPro-Audio]

Originally posted by Wootson:

Correction: Groove Player is also not visible in the list.
"Insert > Soft Synth > DirectX"
Only Cakewalk TTS-1 and Cyclone are visible there.

Groove Player is not visible. It's the audio metronome ;).

Okay. we'll investigate this matter further. We may need to start including some older dependencies just in case.