Every time I open Wavelab it scans all my VST plugins. Takes an age. I’m on MacOS and can see no reason why this is happening. It’s worked for years without doing this. Any advice very much appreciated.
Many thanks!
My best guess, is that your setting folder has been set to read-only, and then WaveLab can’t write the VST plugin cache file, hence do a scan each time you start. Ensure that these folder have write access:
/Users/YourName/Library/Preferences/WaveLab Pro 12/
/Users/YourName/Library/Preferences/WaveLab Pro 12/Cache
Many thanks for your help PG1.
Those folders are both set to read/write and unlocked, so I think it might be something else.
My suspicion is that, because my Wavelab presets folders (for Master section presets and Batch Processors) are in a shared Dropbox folder - we share Wavelab Presets between 3 different users via Dropbox - it’s perhaps also saving soem preference files there, which in turn are getting updated or deleted, meaning Wavelab then has to reset and rescan when it’s closed and restarted.
I’ve always found the Preferences->Global page totally confusing here and the manual equally unhelpful. Do you happen to know how preferences should be configured so that presets are stored in a specific place (in our case on Dropbox), but preferences and other settings files are kept in their default location?
Hugely grateful for any help here.
Best, Jules
I don’t think this is the problem.
The file that stores the plugin settings is this one:
Steinberg/WaveLab Pro 13/Cache/plugin-registry.txt
Try to erase it once. This will cause a plugin rescan at the next launch, but maybe that helps (not too optimistic, though). Are you sure all the plugins are scanned? Normally, only the plugin with a new timestamp are re-scanned. This means, if you copy or alter your plugins in any way, there will be a rescan.
This is not possible. I would recommend to have a script or any sync software to maintain the preset files between the two locations.
Thanks for your help PG1.
As you suspected, deleting the .txt file didn’t solve the problems.
When you say “this is not possible”, do you mean it’s not possible to have presets saving in a Dropbox folder, or that it’s not possible to have other settings saved elsewhere? Strangely, this has worked flawlessly for the last 2 years - presets saved to Dropbox and I’ve never had to rescan plugins until about a week ago.
Thanks again for your help.
it’s not possible to have other settings saved elsewhere.
I mean, all settings and presets, with the exceptions of VST-3 plugin preset that must have a standard path, must have the same root folder.