Greetings all. I have Pianoteq 7 Standard. Which I use s a plug-in in my DAW. I've now dowloaded and installed Pianoteq's free "Bells" instrument pack. I can get it to work while using Pianoteq in stand-alone mode, but when I try to use Pianoteq as a as a plug-in in my DAW, the "Bells" instrument doesn't show up anywhere? Any help would be appreciated.
High probability it's your DAW's cache which can hold outdated plugin data.
In the DAW, find a plugin related setting, named something like "reset plugin cache" or "flush plugin cache".. or "refresh plugins" or "re-scan plugins".
That setting may be in 'settings', 'options' or under some menu item and/or your DAW might have a helpful button to click where it lists your plugins.
What that does, is allows the DAW to drop it's outdated 'cache' of supposedly current plugins, and to find the new instruments you've installed into Pianoteq and other plugins too if applicable.
Some DAWs allow you automatically update the cache every week or month. If your DAW allows that kind of thing, you possibly just have it set to manual (for some reason a lot of them seem to default to something users don't need to alter.. but sometimes they seem to think users will know to manually re-scan their plugins by default).
It's a very common prob - and you might be able to set your DAW to re-scan plugins at every startup to avoid these kinds of occasional mysteries. That's the way I like things - just takes some extra seconds on loading, but keeps this from happening at all.
Hope that does the magic for you - but if it's not that, keep posting letting us know the DAW you use and someone may know a specific solution for you. Cheers.