Hello.  I am using Sonar Platinum Lexington, running under Win 7.
 
So I recently updated my copy of Sonar Plat. to the Lexington version.  I have dutifully used the plug-in manager to make custom lists of my plug-ins.  But now I have some questions about the Plug-in Manager.
 
1) I noticed the in the Media Browser window, each plug-in listed is accompanied by a small icon with the letters FX on it.  Some of these icons are blue on white, and some are green on white.  What do the different colors on these icons tell me or signify?
 
2) I have a copy of Sound Forge, which includes some (DXi) plug-ins like Sony Acoustic Mirror, Sony Elastique TimeStretch, Sony Wave Hammer, Sony Noise Reduction, and others.  Now both Acoustic Mirror and Elastique TimeStretch will crash my copy of Sonar if I try to use them - I haven't tried the others.  Has anyone successfully used Sony plug-ins with Sonar?  Can anyone suggest things I might try to use these Sony plug-ins with Sonar?
 
3) Under the plug-in type Direct Media Objects, there are a bunch of plug-ins I don't recognize as things I've installed: Chorus, Compressor, Distortion, Echo, WavesReverb, WM Speech Encoder, WM Audio Decoder, and others.  All of these plug-ins are located at %systemroot%/system32 - which makes me think these plug-ins are things bundled with Windows, and made to be used with audio CD playback software.  I myself don't need these plug-ins but I am interested because the plug-in scanner identified these plug-ins even tho' they are not in a directory path I asked the plug-in scanner to scan.  So why is the plug-in scanner scanning directories that I have not specified as locations where I keep plug-ins?

Blue = 64 bit
Green = 32 bit
 
I had never even tried the Sony or other listed DMO plugs until now.  I just loaded the Sony multi-tap delay and it work fine.  Can't say about the others you mentioned.
 
DX and DMO are registered in your system rather than scanned.  The scan paths are for VSTs

Hello.  Thanks Bob for your helpful reply.
 
The Sony plug-ins I wrote about are DirectX and not DMO - in any case, Sonar crashes if I try to use the Acoustic Mirror or the TimeStretch plug-ins
 
Glad to hear your Sony delay plug-in functions well in Sonar.

try right-clicking on a clip, select the SONY plug-in using Process Effect > Audio Effects > DirectX  > Sony

The Sony Sound Forge Dx plugins are 32 bit and won't run in 64 bit Sonar.

If you have Sony Vegas12 or newer, then those plugins have been updated to 64 bit DX and Sonar can use them no problems.

Starting with SF10 SONAR includes 64bit versions of several plug-ins. The 32bit versions won't show up 64bit hosts. Here is the list from my 64bit SONAR Browser