I recently purchased Studio One 3 and it comes with a VU meter as an add-on. I downloaded and installed it in Studio One and I tried using it in SONAR Platinum with no luck. I even copied it from the Studio One folder to Cakewalk's Shared plug-in folder and rescanned the folder and I still can't get it to come up in the Plug-In Manager. Has anyone has any luck getting this VU meter plug-in to work in SONAR? Thanks in advance for your help!!!

i don't have studio one but many vsts are proprietary to the DAW... same as Sonar has many that are not usable in other DAWs.

If you're looking for a reliable set of VU meters give these a try.  They're about $15 US.
 
http://klanghelm.com/cont../products/VUMT/VUMT.php

There's always a good chance that any plugin you obtain through your DAW vendor is going to be a proprietary version that only works within that DAW. Makes sense, as they're not giving you something out of kindness, but rather to enhance the value of their paid products.
 
Fortunately, there are plenty of free and cheap VU meters around, with VUMT suggested by jude77 being one of the better ones. A nice freebie that I've used is the one from LSR.

yeah the s1 is proprietary, and +1 for VUMT

We need some prochannel VU-meters!

There are VU meters offered by PSPaudioware.com
 
I use  the PSP TripleMeter
 
http://www.pspaudioware.c...eters/psp_triplemeter/
 
Check out the video  PSP TripleMeter Video
 

@Jesse G
 
That's what I need:)
 
thanks for that tip
 
Bassman.
 

In any case the Cakewalk Shared plugin folder would not be the right folder.
 
only VST plugins can be copied into different folders (generally) without going through special installation procedures, but then Sonar has to be told which pathways to search for VST plugins.

another vote for PSP TripleMeter. Great VU meter.
You can even use the screw to calibrate the needles floating point (db)