Hello all,
 
I'm new to X1 - haven't had a whole lot of time to play with it.  However, I did notice that I can't call up the Cakewalk FX Plugins.  When I drag and drop from the plug in window to the FX bin on my track, I get a window that says: "This plug-In is missing or improperly installed on your system, etc."
 
I did a clean re-install of X1 and that didn't help.  Then I installed an older version of Sonar on a different computer and the plug-ins were there.  So, I copied the shared plug-ins folder from the older version (Sonar 7) to the other computer with X1 and I still can't call them up.
 
Any suggestions??
 
Thanks.

I believe that most of the old FX plug-ins don't work on 64-bit Windows. Use the Sonitus plug-ins instead. That's probably why they gave them away for free a few months ago. When I do a VST scan I get an error message that FxChorus, FxEQ, FxDelay, FxFlange, FxReverb, and Studioverb2 won't work. 

During the install you are given the option of a Recommended or Custom installation.  If you look at the list of to-be-installed items you may find that you did not install the plugs you wanted.  You can go back to the installation (just start the install.exe, and it will allow you to select any additional plugs you missed.  You only need to install the plugs, not X1.
 
 Good Luck

Those plugins you copied from the Shared Plugins folder are DX plugins and copying them is not sufficient. they need to be regfistered and so they have a proper installer. Not like VST's where you can copy .dll files around the place. You can do a couple fo things one ioncludes a registry edit the other requires that you access the regserv32.dll (or 64 bit equivalent) to register the appropriate files in the registry.

You haven't mentioned which plugins specifiaclly or things like which operating system and whether its 32 or 64 bit.

there are some of the cakewalk FX spoecifically the Soundstage FX from the FX pack 3 that won't install in 64 bit X1 or 8.5 for that matter as its strictly a 32 bit DX plugin.

anyway - give us a bit more info as requested.

if you have a corrupt registry file causing the problem, constantly repeating the installtion is of no value. Also uninstalling SONAR without deleting the corrupt keys is also of no value as the keys are not corrected during the next installation.

"Soundstage FX from the FX pack 3"
 
Yeah, a bit OT from the OP, but I had to ask.   I still have that plug around here somewhere on a CD.  Do you find much value in the plug?   Is it clean, as compared to other delays/reverbs?  
 
Thanks

Doesn't work in x64 so don't use it (least ways not without a DX to VST wrapper and such).


Don't understand why off thread as the OP didn't mention which plugin/s or OS at all. I just mentioned that as a specific one that won't install in a 64 bit SONAR. The FX1 and 2 packs however will.
 

No.  Not you OT, me being OT.   Sorry about the confusion.
 
Well, I am deep into the OT now, so I will continue. How do they work for ya...quality wise?
 
Thanks.

I don't use them at all. In fact while I have everything installed (helps with helping folks to have default installation of everything SONAR) I don't use any CAKEWALK FX or Plugins anymore.

If ever I get a stable X1 I might try Prochannel. While I experiement with X1 (and only for the rest of this month) When work starts in Feb I'll be back on 8.5 with only some spare time dedicated to X1 from then on.

The soundstage plugin  (in 32 bit had some interesting aspects of it in locating fx left to right and front to back.

As for the others they're pretty ordinary by today's plugin quality. Only an opinion of course.

You're right.  Never gave it a thought about them being only 32-bit.  Were they ever upgraded to 64-bit?  I am working in 64-bit. 
 
I still have the Sonitus suite plus the Waves Rennaisance pack.  I really don't NEED the Cake plugs.  It was more a question of why aren't they there.
 
However, I do find it odd that the default plug-in layout in X1 has the Cake Plugs listed in the folders even after you have chosen to install the 64-bit version.
 
Thanks for the input.

Then what are the steps one should take to make available fxDelay, fxEQ, fxFlange in and X1 install?