Last night after I finally got my authorization code for XILS 3 I tried to use it in Pro Tools. Below is the message I got. Until I get it figured out I can’t recommend the no-brainer deal for XILS 3, it takes too much “braining”.
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The message says (repeated for search engines):
Pro Tools M-Powered: Pro Tools M-Powered.exe – Unable To Locate Component
The application failed to start because MSVCR80D.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix the problem.
Does anyone know what’s going on? Anyone else having this problem?
BTW I did get a chance to play around with XILS 3 (VST version) in Reaper last night first and it’s pretty damn cool. I hope to get it working right in Pro Tools soon.
UPDATE Dec 3 2009 – Problem Solved!
Xavier of Xils Labs sent me the latest Beta version and the problem has been fixed. Send an email via their contact form and I’m sure they’ll get it working for you too.
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Ooh that’s a nasty error. I couldn’t get the VST of the Blue Tubes plugin to load in Ableton (it crashed it and then disabled it next time I opened it) but it works fine in Pro Tools. Pretty nifty and I will probably use it for a track or two. I definitely remember why I install additional plugins sparingly though.
Chances are, find a copy of that DLL and put it in your windows system or system32 directory, or maybe the VST directory.
That MSVCR80D.dll is the [M]icro[S]oft [V]isual[C] [R]untime 8.0, [D]ebug version. It’s a bit strange you would need this to run an end-user program since this is usually for developer’s own test versions. In any case, this is a well known DLL and you could probably get it online. Be careful downloading DLLs from random sites though.
(The reason a problem like this slips in to the real world is that the developers themselves actually all tend to have this DLL on their machines so they don’t notice a problem. Which is why they should have tested it on a clean machine, but still…)
I submitted the info to XILS directly, who replied that they will look into it.
There’s a thread on the DUC now: http://duc.digidesign.com/showthread.php?t=260591
Someone else had the problem with the demo, but different OS.
Echoing Thomas.
Having been in software development for the past twenty+ years, yes, you do have to test installations on clean machines and the QA team probably slipped up. It’s still a pain in the behind to do this testing, but in the larger scale of things, it doesn’t take that much effort. It’s a lot easier these days, what with virtual machines and all. Even so, people forget.
Get bit enough, though, and you finally remember…
XILs said they’re looking into it.
The vst version works wrapped to RTAS.