My afternoon with X3 : heaven and hell !

StarTekh
Zo : I doubt i can help you ! Sorry

Zo
Thks ..basically i know how to rename  ..the things is that i don't want this fuuuking software to run full deep scan when he wants !!!
 
thank you anyay i might try this but on my mind right now (5 oclok after a crazy day) : Back up pre X3 install !

• You can modify the plug-in names as they appear in the plug-in layout menus using the Plug-in Manager or a third party tool like MenuMagic mentioned earlier in this thread.

• You cannot modify (in a stable way) the plug-in names as they show in the FX Bin.
  The name that shows in the FX BIN is the plug-in's "original name" - which is probably what you are trying to change by editing the registry.
  I consider this, the showing of the plug-ins original name, a bug (in my opinion it should show the plug-in's menu name where ever you use the plug-in) and I have opened up several bug reports on it (for X2 and X3, possibly X1 & earlier as well) but the problem has yet to be addressed.
  If you think this is behavior should be changed please log a suggestion or bug report of your own.

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]

Zo
Thks guyz ..but i think i'm not clear : the names i wanna change is not those ij the plugin layout , the plugin layout is the one i  used in X1  , i alwayz manually copy files adress form on pref panel (X1) to the other (here X3) so i have those folder location migradted 
 
Second : i know i can change the plugin name by double ckikikng on them in the plugin manager : i'm taliking DLL name not their names on the plugin layout : the issue is then it refresh the manager and it takes crazy time  so i simply go to registry and for each plugin i want to change the name , i do what the plugin manager does : i change the display name value in the key !! easy ....

You are running into weird stuff because you are trying to hack the registry to do things you want.
As steven said the workflow for renaming plugins is to use plugin layouts not change the plugin names in the registry. The names there will be lost the next time you do a full scan so its a waste of  your time anyway!
Also there is another danger with doing that. X3 supports automatic VST2 to VST3 plugin migration. The logic for doing that is dependent on the *original* plugin name so changing that value will break this migration potentially (or at least part of it).  If you want different plugin names edit them in the menu layout.
 
Regarding the ASIO latency not being shown, it was just a minor bug in the UI that has been corrected.
 
Regarding scan, SONAR never does a full scan by default it only scans for changes. The only time it does so is if the user chooses "reset" or "rescan original" or "rescan failed" in the VST properties. 
 
Steven:
plugin layout with different names showing original name in the bin. Its not a bug but a feature request :) The bin refers to the master plugin record once inserted and not the layout which is user selectable. I see your point though, but changing it means that we now have to store two names in the project file - the original name as well as the display name, something that SONAR doesn't do today. See comment about migration above for why this would be necessary. Any way we'll consider this for a future version.
What Zo is doing by renaming plugins directly is bad. Plugin manager shouldn't allow renaming directly anymore - that was a feature that was ok in older versions of SONAR. If anything if a plugin is renamed it would have to retain the original name.
(I'll be happy to post this as a suggestion once I get some sleep)