That is awesome!
Thanks a truckload!

Hello,
 
I am a bit confused - i downloaded it, extracted it, double-clicked on "VAST Settings Manager" - and NOTHING happens.
 
What am I supposed to do with this exactly?
 
Thank You,
Adam

nevermind - it opened the utility but took about 90 seconds :)
 
But now I just dont know what to do.  

What is the difference between "SAVE" and "EXPORT"
 
What does Options > "Default Settings" do?
 
 

Elffin
@Mudgel ..... does audacity work as linked wave editor for Sonar?

I'm not sure. I've not tried it. The problem I see is that Audacity doesn't work on .wav files as it saves to its own proprietary format.

The Tools Copy function relies on a .wav file being copied to the hard drive, opened by the external program and when editing is complete, that file is then saved and when you go to Sonar you are asked whether or not to accept the changes. This all happens in .wav files. When you save an audio file in Audacity it's the proprietary version that saved. To get a .wav file you have to export the audio from Audacity.

Export exports all the VST settings as a .reg file; open/save uses an XML file and just does the 'user-editable' settings (and is used by the rescan process to hold the settings during that process).

It does take a while to open which is unexpected - it's building the editable menus that's slow, and I'll work on optimising that.

ok so do i need to save the reg file and the xml file for a complete backup?

I've updated the utility so the scan/menu build is a bit quicker, but .NET just seems slow to build menus programmatically (if I just extract VST data from the registry, it's fast, so it's definitely the menu building part of it).  To mitigate a little, I've added a progress bar so at least you know it's working!
 
I've also made a couple of changes to the VST menu: internal/Pro Channel plug-ins are in italics and their names can be edited (yes, this does mean that the order of Pro Channel modules can be user-controlled through judicious application of knowledge of the alphabet) and plug-ins excluded via the Plug-In Manager are identified by having a strikethrough, so you can ignore them.  I should probably add an option to exclude visually too...next version maybe.
 
Same URL as before.

Awesome work Kevin. Thank you!

Reg file will save everything, including fields that aren't user-editable; it's perfect for a backup.  But if you want to edit "safe" fields such as names or transfer settings to another computer (or user), the XML is probably safer.

KPerry
Reg file will save everything, including fields that aren't user-editable; it's perfect for a backup.  But if you want to edit "safe" fields such as names or transfer settings to another computer (or user), the XML is probably safer.

 
can you do either or?  or do you need both for a safe backup?  Im sorry, I don't understand how to use the utility.  I saw the first steps, but it bypasses exactly how to do a backup/restore.   Thank you though for it, it seems like a great utility!