I then uninstalled AD, selecting the setting to NOT save my settings. I then reinstalled. The program launches because by not saving my previous settings, there are no VST's to load. So far, so good. So, I started from scratch, adding my plugins. No problem. But once I've closed AD and relaunch, same issue. Program freezes trying to load the VST's.
I'm not sure if this is a bug with the new version, or something has gone wrong with my installation. If anyone has installed the new version - and - has VST's that were previously added, does AD launch and load the plugins as ususal? Or does it hang? Knowing this would be helpful to me.
BTW, all of my VST's were working with the previous version. So the problem isn't related to any particular plugin.