bapu
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Is there a way to know which projects have a plugin used?
Say I want to permanently remove a plug from my system but I suspect it's been used once or twice in in my eleventy-nine projects. Is there a way to locate which projects use a specific plug without opening all eleventy-nine and examine the browser? <edit> to add what appears later in this thread. Guitarhacker
X1 will still open all the projects just fine, it will give you a notice that the project has a missing plug in. Simply delete it and save that project....
Herb, that I knew. But that is not the issue. If I knew, before I delete the plugin, where it's used I could open the project and replicate the FX/VSTi and remove the plug from the project. If the plugin was simply gone from my system, when I open the project I would have no idea what I had done with settings wise.
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Re:Is there a way to know which projects have a plugin used?
2012/08/22 11:19:27
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No, there is no way to do that. You would have to open, as you stated: "eleventy-nine" projects. What is eleventy-nine anyways? Is it 119?
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re:Is there a way to know which projects have a plugin used?
2012/08/22 11:41:36
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Eleventy-nine is three or seven less than the number of plug-ins bapsi has on that system.
Don't do it bapsi.... just buy some more.
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Re:Is there a way to know which projects have a plugin used?
2012/08/22 15:37:43
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bapu
Say I want to permanently remove a plug from my system but I suspect it's been used once or twice in in my eleventy-nine projects. Is there a way to locate which projects use a specific plug without opening all eleventy-nine and examine the browser?
I do this with a shareware utility called Replace Studio Pro which can search within any file (and optionally replace text although you wouldn't want to do that in this case). I set the file mask to *.cwp and point it at the root of my Cakewalk Projects folder. You need to click the 'search subfolders' button highlighted in image) Enter as the search string the name of the plugin but leave the replace field blank - VERY IMPORTANT! The output is messy but it highlights each file name and it beats opening every project. You may need to be creative with the search string, for example, some plugs show in truncated 8.3 filename format e.g. Arppe2600va shows up in the CWP file as ARPPE2~1. 
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Re:Is there a way to know which projects have a plugin used?
2012/08/22 15:44:47
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I'm gonna make a feature request just now.
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Re:Is there a way to know which projects have a plugin used?
2012/08/22 15:55:22
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While you're at it put in a request also for a feature that tells you what plug you "should have" used instead iffn you hadn't been a nitwit. I'd get a lot of use out of that.
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Re:Is there a way to know which projects have a plugin used?
2012/08/22 15:59:27
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yorolpal
While you're at it put in a request also for a feature that tells you what plug you "should have" used instead iffn you hadn't been a nitwit. I'd get a lot of use out of that.
Are you gonna pay for the now ruined keyboard (whew! I had a spare) from the mouthful of water I just sprayed all over it from LMAO at your remark???? Huh????
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Re:Is there a way to know which projects have a plugin used?
2012/08/22 16:10:31
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Luteman
bapu
Say I want to permanently remove a plug from my system but I suspect it's been used once or twice in in my eleventy-nine projects. Is there a way to locate which projects use a specific plug without opening all eleventy-nine and examine the browser?
I do this with a shareware utility called Replace Studio Pro which can search within any file (and optionally replace text although you wouldn't want to do that in this case).
I set the file mask to *.cwp and point it at the root of my Cakewalk Projects folder. You need to click the 'search subfolders' button highlighted in image)
Enter as the search string the name of the plugin but leave the replace field blank - VERY IMPORTANT!
The output is messy but it highlights each file name and it beats opening every project.
You may need to be creative with the search string, for example, some plugs show in truncated 8.3 filename format e.g. Arppe2600va shows up in the CWP file as ARPPE2~1.
that's cool. thanks for the tip
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Re:Is there a way to know which projects have a plugin used?
2012/08/22 16:15:04
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Wow, that is a super cool little tool. Thanks!
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bapu
Say I want to permanently remove a plug from my system but I suspect it's been used once or twice in in my eleventy-nine projects. Is there a way to locate which projects use a specific plug without opening all eleventy-nine and examine the browser?
I do this with a shareware utility called Replace Studio Pro which can search within any file (and optionally replace text although you wouldn't want to do that in this case).
I set the file mask to *.cwp and point it at the root of my Cakewalk Projects folder. You need to click the 'search subfolders' button highlighted in image)
Enter as the search string the name of the plugin but leave the replace field blank - VERY IMPORTANT!
The output is messy but it highlights each file name and it beats opening every project.
You may need to be creative with the search string, for example, some plugs show in truncated 8.3 filename format e.g. Arppe2600va shows up in the CWP file as ARPPE2~1.
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Re:Is there a way to know which projects have a plugin used?
2012/08/23 08:07:10
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X1 will still open all the projects just fine, it will give you a notice that the project has a missing plug in. Simply delete it and save that project....
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Re:Is there a way to know which projects have a plugin used?
2012/08/23 11:20:13
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Taken from an earlier post of mine on the subject:
It turns out that the name of the soft synth is in the .cwp file in plain text. So I used a search tool (Cool Find from nihuo software) which has text string searching within a file. Note that although Windows Search appears to have the same facility it doesn't search within .cwp files. Since I only really need to find projects that use a specific soft synth Cool Find works fine for me. Since Cool Find also supports searching for the AND or OR of strings I can also find, for example, all projects that use TTS and PianoOne. --Larry PS: I'm not pushing the Cool Find product - I'm sure there are other search tools that can do the same thing, maybe even for free.
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Re:Is there a way to know which projects have a plugin used?
2012/08/23 11:33:59
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Guitarhacker
X1 will still open all the projects just fine, it will give you a notice that the project has a missing plug in. Simply delete it and save that project....
Herb, that I knew. But that is not the issue. If I knew, before I delete the plugin, where it's used I could open the project and replicate the FX/VSTi and remove the plug from the project. If the plugin was simply gone from my system, when I open the project I would have no idea what I had done with settings wise. I probably should have explained that better in the OP.
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Re:Is there a way to know which projects have a plugin used?
2012/08/28 03:53:38
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bapu
yorolpal
While you're at it put in a request also for a feature that tells you what plug you "should have" used instead iffn you hadn't been a nitwit. I'd get a lot of use out of that.
Are you gonna pay for the now ruined keyboard (whew! I had a spare) from the mouthful of water I just sprayed all over it from LMAO at your remark???? Huh????
You really should be using one of these then:  Just in time for hurricane and typhoon season too!  ... from Logitech, of course.
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Re:Is there a way to know which projects have a plugin used?
2012/08/28 06:36:05
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yorolpal
While you're at it put in a request also for a feature that tells you what plug you "should have" used instead iffn you hadn't been a nitwit. I'd get a lot of use out of that.
+1. :)
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Re:Is there a way to know which projects have a plugin used?
2012/08/28 13:07:57
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SONAR needs some reporting features. Imagine a report that showed all the details for a project: which plugins were used on which tracks, a routing diagram, file statistics, unbounced AudioSnap and V-Vocal clips, and the notes from the File -> Info page.
In my day job I deal with databases, where reporting isn't just a nice add-on, it's an absolute necessity without which all you have is a meaningless pile of data. A SONAR project is a database, but one in which the data can only be managed via the application that created it, a very 1970's approach. Or worse, an IOS approach.
The problem with a grep-like text search tool like the one mentioned above is that you have to know what you're looking for in advance. I can imagine a tool that looks in your VST folder and makes a list of all your plugins, looks up their CLSIDs in the registry and then scans projects while aggregating data. Maybe I should write that tool.
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Re:Is there a way to know which projects have a plugin used?
2012/08/28 13:11:47
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bitflipper
I can imagine a tool that looks in your VST folder and makes a list of all your plugins, looks up their CLSIDs in the registry and then scans projects while aggregating data. Maybe I should write that tool. You'd be my hero Dave.
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Re:Is there a way to know which projects have a plugin used?
2012/08/28 14:48:33
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We'll not risk another frontal assault-that rabbit's dynamite!!!
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