Cleaning up plugins

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studio343
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2013/11/23 10:58:37 (permalink)

Cleaning up plugins

Last night I was up late working on X3 mainly creating all new track templates and project templates to begin working completely in X3... MAYBE some of the glitches I've had are from "importing" some stuff from X2 into X3. Maybe? I dunno.. but it was worth a shot...
 
I also decided to go thru and ORGANIZE my plugins using the Plugin Manager to MY LIKING.. and did so.. but as I did.. it occurred to me.. I have MANY MANY duplicates of various plugins.. in some cases I have like 4 instances... I began wondering how I should best go about "cleaning up." I thought MAYBE deleting the plugins from the folders.. or do I just need to delete the entries from the "manager." If so.. how do I know I delete the right entry if it's a 32 or 64 bit version?
 
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    grizwalter
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    Re: Cleaning up plugins 2013/11/23 11:18:56 (permalink)
    I don't use Sonar, but I do use MC6T, so they are similar in this regard I'm assuming. I've had this same concern in the organizing process. I have generally come to a rule of thumb I follow. It is a bit of a pain I suppose, but worth trying.
     
    Any plugin which is listed more than once in the lists in manager, which is also in my organized list, I remove from the latter. Then, I take one instance of the plugin and put it back into my setup. If it works, and all is clearly well, I know I can exclude the other plugin instances showing in the overall available lists. If it does not due to 32-bit vs. 64-bit compatibility, I know to head over to Reaper for a similar test in the near future.
     
    I can't swear that my method is the best or smartest way, but it has worked ok for me. Now I just need to start keeping a list and figuring out how to completely remove the extra plug-ins from my system; that could be trickier. Currently, at least in MC6, one is only able to "exclude" a plugin from the available list, not delete any from the manager screen.
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    Re: Cleaning up plugins 2013/11/23 12:20:11 (permalink)
    The problem is, some plugs write information into the registry, so for a clean removal, you should by rights rbe removing the necessary keys from the reg., which isn't for the faint hearted and could lead to system instability.
     
    Alternatively, there is an option in Plugin Manager, to simply "Exclude Plugin" so you don't even see it in your plugin lists

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