Reaper won’t show 2016 Stereo Room in VST list

Hi everyone and first of all, sorry for this long and boring post,

I went through some of the other topics that address the same problem and followed the suggested steps.

To give you an overview: I purchased a new Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 the other day and saw that I could download the Stereo Room plugin for free. I’ve created a Focusrite account, then the Eventide account and then followed almost all the steps (this is where I might have screwed up) as described here: https://www.eventideaudio.com/support/downloads/installing-and-authorizing-plug-ins

I entered the Serial Number and License Key on Eventide’s website so I could download the plugin.

The first time I somehow missed the part about activating the license in the iLok Manager. I had installed the plugin without having activated the license in the iLok License Manager. I launched Reaper, scanned for new plugins and was unable to see the plugin anywhere available. I also had installed the plugin to custom 32 and 64 bit folders. I then read the install and authorizing steps again and realized that I missed the activation process. I had already created the iLook account at that time but didn’t download and install the iLok manager.

Then I installed the License Manager (restarted PC after install), logged in with my credentials and activated the Stereo Room license. I opened Reaper again and scanned for the plugin just to see if it would show up since the plugin was already installed, but no results. I then deleted all the files from the custom install folders and then re-installed the plugin with the default settings/ default paths as set in the installation. Reaper was still unable to find and show the plugin.

Then I tried as suggested in other topics – I made sure to follow the steps exactly as shown below, did not skip anything:

1. Close your DAW and delete the following files:

-AAX32: c:Program Files (x86)Common FilesAvidAudioPlug-InsEventide<plugin name>.aaxplugin

-AAX64: c:Program FilesCommon FilesAvidAudioPlug-InsEventide<plugin name>.aaxplugin

-VST32: c:Program Files (x86)Common FilesSteinbergVST2Eventide<plugin name>.dll

-VST64: c:Program FilesCommon FilesSteinbergVST2Eventide<plugin name>.dll

-Presets: c:Users<user name>My DocumentsEventide<plugin name>Presets

-Any of the files listed above that you installed to a custom location.

2. Open your DAW and rescan you plug-ins, and then shut your DAW again.

3. Reinstall your plug-in, making sure you are using the latest version:https://www.eventideaudio.com/products/plugins

  If you are installing to a custom folder, make absolutely sure you are installing the correct 32 or 64-bit version.

4. Reopen your DAW.