Hi Folks,
I think I know the answer to this, but I have to double check.
I was running Sonar 6 with Kontakt2 and Kompakt sample libraries (these are at least as old as 2008).
Sonar Pro 23 doesn't recognize them - will they no longer run?
 
Thanks,
Ben
 

I'm no authority, but I would think that if you set SONAR to scan the folder that Kontakt 2 is in that it should find it fine. 

I'm no expert. But, in the Plug-in Manager, you may have to set another path (in addition to the one you already have) to the folder those VST's are in. Then re-scan. 

Are you sure, you were using the VST plug-in? Kontakt 2 shipped DX and VST format plug-ins. If you used the DX format, you need to use the appropriate version of SONAR. 32bit DX plug-ins only run in 32bit hosts. 64bit DX plug-ins only run in 64bit SONAR. If you used the DX plug-in in SONAR 6 you may need to install the 32bit version of SONAR Professional. It is possible to have both 32 and 64bit SONAR Professional installed on the same machine.

@scook: How can I tell whether I was using DX vs VST before?

I know of no way short of opening the projects and inspecting the plug-ins. There is a VST drop down in the standard header of a VST plug-in. In SONAR 6 it looked like this (the VST drop down is below the "v1.cmp" in the title bar to the right of the preset controls)

DX plug-ins do not have the drop down.
 
If you do not have access to the old DAW and

• you are running 64bit SONAR (or 32bit SONAR and did not install the DX format plug-in) and
• Kontakt 2 can be loaded into a new project and
• old projects throw a missing Kontakt error messages

it is reasonable to assume the old projects are looking for the DX format plug-in.
 

If its a DX plugin it would be listed under DX in the plugin manager.  

I might be missing the point here, but what is Sonar Pro 23?

My guess was SONAR Professional build 23.1.0.32 assuming the build numbers are the same as Platinum. This would be the Jan 2017 release.

Thats pretty darn good figuring Scook.