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Can't see the image and the link is broke. OneDrive is notorious for this. I quit using it after finding I can't even add pics to a "good" folder and have them show.

Hey thanks for commenting on this. I had inadvertently disabled One Drive at startup when I was in the Task Manager recently. I re-enabled and refreshed the link. I will definitively keep an eye out for any broken links in the future due to using One Drive.

I also have 2 instances of the same plug in & according to the properties, path & the ID number the plugin is identical & being listed twice. This has nothing to do with Mono, Stereo, or Multi out plugin.
 
Since all of my plugins reside in a folder called "C:\Audio" I created a new folder called "C:\Audio-X" where I place a limited amount of VST plugins so I could experiment with this quicker. I performed a Scan of "C:\Audio-X" with both Sonar X3 & Sonar 8.53 with identical results. They both reported the same plugins twice. Here's a sample.
 
D82 Sonic Maximizer VST ID 1934451064
D82 Sonic Maximizer VST ID 1934451064
Addictive Drums 2 x64 VST ID 2017543218
Addictive Drums 2 x64 VST ID 2017543218
Ample Guitar T II VST ID 1097299059
Ample Guitar T II VST ID 1097299059
 
WTF is going on?
 
 
 
 

All Cakewalk DAWs and Cakewalk by BandLab use the same shared utilities including the VST scanner. Scanning with different DAWs uses the same scanner building VST inventories in the registry for each DAW. Instead of scan, try reset. Reset clears the inventory for the DAW then builds it. Better still get the latest scanner with the CbB upgrade. The scanner gets updates and bug fixes with every major release and CbB is no exception.