missing VSTs - sonitus

hi folks,
not too long ago I had a computer crash. I had sonar producer 5 on WIN XP (32bit).
lately I bought X1 producer (I have WIN7/64bit now). i tried to load the old songs (bundles), but sonar keeps telling me it cannot find the sonitus VSTs that were embedded.
I already tried copying the Shared PlugIn folder (containing all sonitus fx) and put it into different locations (programs/VSTs, programs/steinberg/VSTplugins, programs(x86)/VSTplugins and all other possibilities) but still they cannot be found. however, I'm able to load the sonitus VSTs as new effects into the project, but of course without the correct settings.
I realized the plugings that cannot be found are named for example 'sonitusfx:delay' and when I load the sonitus delay as a new effect its name is just 'delay', but in the VST folder the name of the effect is 'sonitusfx:delay', so renaming is not an option.
any ideas would be very much appreciated.
 

well, they are there. and active. like I said: I can pick for example the sonitus delay and use it, save the setting and so on. but if it is embedded in a song that I made with sonar5, it can't be found when I load the song. I can only load it as a new plugin without the saved setting.
sorry if I missed something, but how can finding it in the dx listing (guess you're talking about the plugin manager) help me?

I'd recommend support as well. I only go back to hs7xl, but jumped to x1 pretty quickly. If you have 5 loaded i bet you could save the presets and import them into the current plugs.

In X1 Bit bridge is suppose to wrap the Sonitus plugs and make them available in the 64 bit version.
What I would try is find your sonitus plug in the Left Hand side of the plug in manager, select it (the plug) and then in the upper right hand corner of the plug in manager box there may / should be a check box to use to make sure that the Dxi plug is wrapped....
 
Now I have X1 as well but I also bought J-Bridge ($20 no brainer) and sometimes I have to use this technique only it asks me if I would like to use J-Bridge to wrap the plug....I check the box and it works for me....
 
Just a suggestion to try....
Clifford

DX plugs are not VSTs

• Only VSTs use bit bridge.
• In Sonar 32 bit you can only use DX plugs that are 32 bit, in Sonar 64 bit you can only use DX plugs that 64 bit. 
  The 64 bit version of Sonar can't see/can't find 32 bit DX plug-ins.
  Unless you have the 32 bit version of Sonar installed - installing the 32 bit DX versions wouldn't do you any good.
• From jBridge website:
  "jBridge is an application designed for bridging VST plugins in Windows (up to the 2.4 VST specification)."

You can of course buy the vst version of the Sonitus suite.
 
http://www.store.cakewalk.com/b2cus/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=36-CWSF3.31-10E
 
These are still only 32 bit, but if you decided to do this, they would be available in the 64 bit version of sonar via BitBridge or JBridge

well, it seems that even if you install the 32bit-version it doesn't work.
i did the following:
installed the 32bit version in a different folder, added the new 'shared plugins' folder to the plugin manager, still the sonitus effects only appeared once (guess in the old, 64 bit version).
so I temporary deleted the 'shared plugins' folder in the 64bit version and replaced it with the 32bit version, so that only the 32bits existed, started the 32version of X1 again, and still...nothing worked.
nice try, though.
 
edit: the presets of the 32 bit versions still seem to be embedded in the bundle file of the songs, since the plugin replacer tells me, that it's still there. is there any way to access the presets of the old versions? the X1 plugin manager tells me where it stores the 64bit presets, but the 32bit versions don't seem to be somewhere..

yeah, of course i also installed the plugins. like i said: i deleted the dx plugins from the 64bit versions, so that only the ones from the 32bit installation were there.
X1 is no longer supported by the cakewalk support, but i already gave it a try and wrote a msg. thanks y'all.