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2016/11/25 21:31:55 (permalink)

My Plugins Are All Screwed Up - Scanning Advice

I recently acquired a shiny new free plug in.  I had trouble getting Sonar to find it, and now my plugin situation is totally screwed.  Every time I do a new scan, Sonar comes back with a different set of plugins!  Sometimes there are VST3s, and sometimes not.  Sometimes it finds my Izotope plugs, sometimes it doesn't.  I've reset the VSTs several times now, and I can't seem to get everything back.  As I've been looking through the program files for the scan paths I need to set, I'm totally befuddled.  There are .dll files all over the place!  Each vendor creates it's own folder, but puts it's .dll files in multiple locations.  Even when I think I've set the scan paths right, sometimes the plugs don't get picked up.
 
I don't know that I've asked a very good question here, but if anyone could offer advice on getting a plugin situation fixed, I'd love to hear it.
 
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    Re: My Plugins Are All Screwed Up - Scanning Advice 2016/11/25 21:51:19 (permalink)
    Try a reset and rescan. 

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    Re: My Plugins Are All Screwed Up - Scanning Advice 2016/11/25 21:55:33 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby glennstanton 2016/11/26 14:53:59
    Most installs I have seen provide a default installation path for plugins, and allow it to be changed by the user, during the installation process script.
     
    I usually put all 64-bit plugins into the C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Vstplugins folder, and every VST3 install I have done has deliberately placed the plugins into C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3 folder.
     
    I DO have some plugins in C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST2 for some reason, and I allowed some Steinberg stuff to go into its default plugin folder of C:\Program Files\Steinberg\VstPlugins.
     
    And lots of freeware that doesn't have any installation script, but is just a dll or a small folder with a dll and some other components - all of those kinds of plugins I download to My Downloads into a Plugins folder, and then I manually copy those into the C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Vstplugins folder.
     
    I also do still maintain a small folder for 32-bit plugins that I wish to have loadable in my 64-bit Sonar sessions, and I put those into a sub-folder within C:\Program Files (x86)\Cakewalk\Vstplugins called Bridged (I use JBridge, but would do it this way even if just using the Sonar-included BitBridge).
     
    I do not know of a simple way to consolidate a bunch of plugins that are scattered all over the place, nor do I know why you get different results when doing a Reset and a Full Rescan of all of your plugins.
     
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    Re: My Plugins Are All Screwed Up - Scanning Advice 2016/11/25 22:43:47 (permalink)
    I'm managing to slowly get things rebuilt now.  I've been adding one folder to the scan path list, scanning, adding one more folder, scanning again, etc.
     
    I think part of my problem is that .dll files with the same names are showing up in different folders, and I apparently don't need to have every folder that has a .dll in the scan path list.  I'm finding the whole plug-in management thing to be rather confusing, but I'm slowly getting it worked out.  I'm down to only one of my must-have plug-ins that I can't manage to get Sonar to find.  This is a weird one, though, since I've located it in the folder system and other plug-ins in the same folder have been successfully loaded.
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    Re: My Plugins Are All Screwed Up - Scanning Advice 2016/11/26 12:52:46 (permalink)
    You can get the same .DLL name in different folders because of different versions. You could have a VST2, VST3, 32 bit and 64 bit versions in different folders with the same name. Hope that helps.

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