Thanks you two. Bill, have updated iLok Manager, restarted, rescanned all plugs. It reported only 2 did not initialize - z3ta+ (a Cakewalk Synth) and iZotope Ozone 8. I OK'd that box and saw UVI and a load more appear in my plugin list - HOORAY!
2 seconds later, all these vanished in a puff of smoke. So back to square one.
bbelius, thanks for that info. Here's the offending stretches:
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FIRST SCAN - v3.02:
Creating VST Plugin: C:/VSTs/UVIWorkstationVSTx64.dll
2019-05-02 18:08:13.118 INFO [13636] [VstPlugin::] Opening VST Plugin
2019-05-02 18:08:13.508 ERROR [13636] [VstLoader::] Error loading library: Cannot load library C:\VSTs\UVIWorkstationVSTx64.dll: A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed.
2019-05-02 18:08:13.508 ERROR [13636] [VstPlugin::] Could not load VST library
2019-05-02 18:08:13.510 INFO [13636] [VstPlugin::] Destroying VST Plugin: C:/VSTs/UVIWorkstationVSTx64.dll
SECOND SCAN - v3.05
Creating VST Plugin: C:/VSTs/UVIWorkstationVSTx64.dll
2019-05-02 19:50:37.060 INFO [9924] [VstPlugin::] Opening VST Plugin
2019-05-02 19:50:37.454 INFO [9924] [VstPlugin::] VST version: 2400
2019-05-02 19:50:37.454 INFO [9924] [VstPlugin::] Reading speaker arrangement information
2019-05-02 19:50:37.454 INFO [9924] [VstPlugin::] Updating bus channel counts
2019-05-02 19:50:37.454 INFO [9924] [VstPlugin::] Plugin opened successfully
2019-05-02 19:50:37.464 INFO [9924] [VstPlugin::] Destroying VST Plugin: C:/VSTs/UVIWorkstationVSTx64.dll
2019-05-02 19:50:39.476 INFO [9924] [VstLoader::] Unloading: C:/VSTs/UVIWorkstationVSTx64.dll
THIS LAST TIME:
Creating VST Plugin: C:/VSTs/UVIWorkstationVSTx64.dll
2019-05-02 21:07:00.520 INFO [2416] [VstPlugin::] Opening VST Plugin
2019-05-02 21:07:00.955 ERROR [2416] [VstLoader::] Error loading library: Cannot load library C:\VSTs\UVIWorkstationVSTx64.dll: A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed.
2019-05-02 21:07:00.955 ERROR [2416] [VstPlugin::] Could not load VST library
2019-05-02 21:07:00.956 INFO [2416] [VstPlugin::] Destroying VST Plugin: C:/VSTs/UVIWorkstationVSTx64.dll
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That 2nd time is especially odd - all seemed to go swimmingly, then it destroyed it.
"Destroyed" feels like an extremely apt word to describe what VEP7 is doing to my plugins.
Win 10 Pro 64 bit, i7 7820X, RME Babyface, 64gb RAM, Cubase Pro 2, PT Ultimate 2022, VE Pro 7