Korg Collection 6 on Windows 11 - Need to run Cantabile as Administrator

Cantabile
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I just purchased the Korg Collection 6 on a spring sale and installed all the plugins.

Every time I tried to run them under Cantabile, it kept asking for the location of the Data folder. The same thing happened in Korg’s standalone exe for the synths.

I finally realized the only way it would recognize the location was running the executable as Administrator. I did some research and this appears to be some funky authentication scheme which also requires an Internet connection. Frankly I’m not sure I would have bought it if I realized this was the case, but now I’m stuck.

I checked and I can run the VST3s under Cantabile Performer IF I run Cantabile as an Administrator. The Korg documentation does indicate that you may need to run your DAW as the Administrator so I guess this is ‘working as designed’ (how totally annoying!!)

My question: is there any downside to running Cantabile under Windows as Administrator? I can make this the default for the exe as compatability option, just wanted to be sure there wasn’t some penalty. Thanks!

BTW- I also sent an email to Korg USA Support to see if they provide any options.

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This turned out to be an installation folder permissions issue. For some reason, some of the Korg synth database folders were installed in Program Files\Common Files instead of User\Public. I moved the folders and the plugins now run without Run As Administrator. I didn’t see any issues running Cantabile as administrator but I’m happy I don’t need this.