I had to do this for both V3 & V4 of Reaper, on both XP x32 and Win7 圆4 when installing Atmosphere & Omnisphere, which where where I placed them, but the program itself did NOT like that, so I had to let it install where it wanted to. Then open Reaper & direct it to where it installed to and do a FULL rescan of the folders.Īnd this is important, close down Reaper & Reboot the system.THEN Open Reaper & it should find Absynth. If I remember right it will install in either the Steinberg folder, or will create/install into a generic VST folder, both will be in C: Program Files. Close Reaper, then install Absynth 5 again, paying CLOSE attention to WHERE it is getting installed. Reboot, open Reaper, and do a full Rescan of the VST-VSTi folders. This will remove all entries for Absynth 5. Uninstall Absynth 5 using CCleaner, which is a free download. I had to do this with Absynth 4 before it would show up in XP. Close down Reaper, re-start the system, Open Reaper, and direct it to scan the folder you just created. Create a VSTi folder on you c: drive called 'My VSTi.or something you like, and place them in there. dll files OUT of the Reaper/plugins folder.

'C:/Program Files/REAPER/plugins' and 'C:/Program Files/REAPER/plugins/FX' If they're not, delete the entries and rescan.

If you open either reaper-vstplugins.ini or reaper-vstplugins64.ini in your favourite text program (e.g. There are 2 versions of each for stereo and surround sound.īecause the installer puts in both 32 and 64bit versions make sure they go into different folders and Reaper 32bit (x86) scans the 64bit folder before the 32bit one, and the opposite way around for Reaper 64bit. Without rewriting anything, Absynth 5 FX shows up as VST Absynth 5 (Native Instruments GmbH) and the synth as VSTi Absynth 5 (Native Instruments GmbH).

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