Most VST plugins don't work

[Quants0]

I installed Audacium on my Windows 11 machine, tried to load all my plugins from Audacity but almost every one gave me an error saying "Effect or command at [path to my plugins] failed to register: Could not load the library". I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Admittedly I'm not a very techy person so I apologize if this has a fairly obvious solution that I'm not aware of.

[Quants0]

It doesn't matter where I put the plugins, they don't work.

[generic-pers0n]

Hello! It sounds like this is a possible bug in Audacium. Unfortunately, this is where the end of the line is.

Just to make things clear, I am not the developer behind Audacium and provide support to any Audacium users the best I can. I don't have the ability to fix bugs in Audacium right now because I am focusing on another similar Audacity fork that I currently lead.

Overall, I don't think that there is much we can do here. This sounds like a bug in Audacium, but right now, I don't think this can be fixed unless another maintainer steps up.

[Quants0]

I'm having this same issue with Tenacity as well. They work fine in Audacity but not in either Audacium or Tenacity.

[generic-pers0n]

Huh...some investigation needs to be going on. This could be a common issue that needs to be resolved across both projects, possibly. I'll try to see what I might be able to do, if anything...

[Quants0]

Do Audacium and Tenacity only support 64 bit plugins? Because if so then I'll just go back to using 3.0.2

[generic-pers0n]

64 bit versions of Audacium and Tenacity should only support 64 bit plugins on Windows. The same can be said with 32-bit versions; they only support 32-bit plugins. The same can be said with Audacity starting with 3.0.3 and above also as their Windows builds are also 64-bit. (Edit: I don't really think this is relevant for the discussion, but I guess it can be for informational purposes

Note that you might need to build your own version of Tenacity or Audacium for x86 instead of x64. This should be relatively easy to do, but if you have troubles, I can attempt to assist you to some degree.