using Cabbage 2.2.02 and Fmod 1.10.05, I can export a plugin (dll and csd files are generated) but when it is placed in Fmod’s plugin folder, it doesn’t appear in the Add Plug-in Instrument submenu in the event editor.
I would be grateful for any help
Need a little more detail, what OS are you using?
Sorry, you mentioned dll, so I guess you’re on Windows. It’s working here for me on OSX, so I assume it should work on Windows too. Have you set up the plugins folder?
Thanks for your reply,
Under Preferences–>Assets I’ve set the Plug-in Folder to point to a folder I’ve named FModPlugs housed in my secondary D: drive
And I assume it still doesn’t work? I’m going to try now myself on a fresh Window 10 machine…
Are ytou sure your plugin dll and .csd file are in the folder you’ve set to be the plugins folder? I just did an install of both Cabbage and FMOD on a fresh Windows 10 machine and I had no issues, as you can see in the pictures below. Excuse the cropping at the top, but you can see I exported a simple example, set my plugins folder in FMOD, and then insert the plugin into the event track.
Can you open the command prompt, navigate to the desktop folder, and run the dir command?
[edit] I ask because I can’t say for certain if they are the same directories from the information you’ve provided…
Looks Ok to me. Can you post the two .csd files? If you don’t want others to view them you can PM me instead.
Can you try one of these examples:
Note that you can design instruments with Cabbage, but the Cabbage examples will need some editing in order to get them to work in FMOD. However, I think they should still show up. Try one of these and let me know if it works.
I tried the bells.csd and while it worked fine inside cabbage, when I exported it, it didn’t show up.
If you could export it in your windows pc, I could test the .dll in my fmodstudio to see where the trouble starts.
Good idea. Here you go:
I didn’t have a chance to test the plugins earlier, but I’m on my home machine now, and I can confirm that this plugin loads and runs fine…
Unfortunately it doesn’t show up. I installed a fresh version of fmod studio and it didn’t help.
Does the FMOD Console window print anything of note? I also just did a fresh install of FMOD. And it works fine where. Hmm. Any other ideas? Can you try putting the fmod plugin folder somewhere else? Perhaps there are permission issues with your desktop folder. Try somewhere in “My Documents” perhaps.
The console prints:
20:15:07 fmod_os_misc.cpp(784), FMOD_OS_Library_Load(): LoadLibrary failed to open ‘D:/FMODPlugs/bells.dll’, GetLastError = 126 [#2 times]
20:15:07 Error loading plugin D:/FMODPlugs/bells.dll: File not found.
so there is that.
Moving the folder to My Documents didn’t work.
I could try to get another third party plugin to see if that shows up. At least we could find out for sure that it is fmod’s issue. Can you recommend any plugin I could test?
I haven’t actually used FMOD is quite some time, so I don’t know of any 3rd party plugins. But it would be good to test one as see. Let me know. Something very strange is happening, but I can’t tell what it is.
Hi rory! I was trying to do one of my subject’s work, based on putting sound with a new created plugin using fmod and cabbage for it. I have the same problem as the guy in this forum. I’ve followed all the stages of your explanation, but i cant fix the problem. As you didnt keep on talking about the problem, i cant find any way to fix it. Could you help me please?? It’s very important to pass the subject in 2 months!!
I didn’t reply again because I was waiting for confirmation on whether other 3rd party plugins work. As I mentioned above, it works ok for me. The question is, how can I fix a problem that I can’t create? Can you confirm that other 3rd party plugins work for you. Are you also using Windows?
