Good morning, all - 
 
Bought an upgrade for Sony/Magix Vegas with Sound Forge bundled in - comes with iZotopes mastering bundle. I can't get those VSTs to appear in Sonar, however. It also came with iZotope Nectar Elements and I have them showing up but not the mastering VSTs. I've double checked the VST locations and rescanned and did everything else I can think of. Anyone else have a similar issue or perhaps if not, can you help me out?

Some programs put the VSTs in a Steinberg folder.so Sonar may not be scanning there

In addition, sometimes the VSTs are locked to the program you got them with (e.g. Sonar's BlueTubes bundle is only licensed to work in Sonar).

They come as a seperate installer with the Sound Forge package. They should be locked to the package (Sound Forge). Meaning you won't be able to use them in other software except Sound Forge. Unless Magic are more generous than Sony was.

Just email the guys at Magix if you still have problems. I've always found them to be prompt and reliable.

I would actually go the route of iZotope. You can also download that installer from them and run a custom install. I have not heard of iZotope locking plugins, so if an issue does persist, I would contact them directly to ask.

I suspect the path may just have gone to another folder and/or you may have only installed the VST3 version or some variation. I would try the custom installation route first.

Thanks everyone for trying to help - I know exactly where the .dll files are at and have pointed sonar to those folders (they are actually in the right spot). I suspect it might indeed be locked to soundforge (though izotope elements works in sonar fine...) - I think I'll try the custom install and if that fails, email magix - thanks.....

As I mentioned earlier they are probably locked to Sound Forge. The have SF 11 from the Sony days and the iZotope plugins that come with it aren't available in any other program. There's probably a EULA that explains it all in small print. EULA is End user Licence Agreement.

are you sure they're vst? i have sf10 (though not currently installed) and iirc they were 32 bit dx plugin versions, which could explain why they're not showing up

Looks like the actual name of that is "Mastering and Repair Suite" which seems like it is only outsourced to SF.
 
https://www.izotope.com/en/company/press-room/press-releases/2007/sony-licenses-izotope-mastering-technology.html
 
https://www.izotope.com/en/company/press-room/press-releases/2012/sony-licenses-izotope-audio-repair-technologies-for-inclusion-in-sound-forge-pro-mac.html
 

hmmm - okay - thanks everyone for your help. I might be out of luck getting it into Sonar then - no big deal, just thought it would be cool to have access in either program....