Hello Luc,
ludu wrote:Do you have an idea of what I can do to recover the use of Reaper? The message was:
The following effects were in the project file and are not available... Track 1 VSTi Hauptwerk VST Link 64-bit (Milan Digital Audio) (32 out). But my folder 'Hauptwerk Virtual Pipe Organ VST Link Plug-In' has vanished and therefore I cannot point it into Reaper.
There's an option in Hauptwerk's installer for the VST plug-in location. There's also an option in Reaper for its plug-ins search path. You just need to make sure that the latter includes the former, i.e. that Reaper's plug-ins search path includes whatever folder you selected as the location for the Hauptwerk VST plug-in when you (last) ran Hauptwerk's installer.
From your last diagnostic file, I see that you chose 'F:\' as the location for the VST-plug-in. That probably isn't a great place to put a VST plug-in (i.e. at the root of a drive), so you might want to re-run the Hauptwerk v4.2.1 installer (either the v4.2.1 'update installer' or v4.2.1 'full installer' -- it doesn't matter which) and select somewhere other than the root of a drive. Leave all other installer options at their current values so that nothing else will be moved.
The standard default location for the VST plug-in is:
C:\Program Files\Hauptwerk Virtual Pipe Organ VST Link Plug-In
Hence you could either use that, or, for example, put it somewhere such as:
F:\Hauptwerk\Hauptwerk Virtual Pipe Organ VST Link Plug-In
(Either is fine.)
Then in Reaper's preferences make sure that Reaper's plug-ins search path includes wherever you chose.
ludu wrote:A last question: was it a good idea to keep HW on C: or is it better to transfer in on my SSD too?
You currently have all of the customisable Hauptwerk components on your F: drive (your SSD), which is fine, and will potentially give the fastest loading in all cases. (However, many people choose to put their 'sample sets and components' folder, which is large but not speed-critical, on a large 7200 RPM drive to save SSD space.)
Best regards, Martin.
Hauptwerk software designer/developer, Milan Digital Audio.