stlstudio
In both 11 & 12 Platinum updates, my 3rd party plugins have disappeared from the effects bin dropdown menu even thought they are registered in the plugin manager before & after a reset/rescan. they even show up in the effects bin on tracks in previously created projects. but, because they are not in the effects bin menu, I cannot add any new plugins to my projects. So, I've had to use windows restore points to get them back in the effects bin dropdown menus because (rollbacks don't fix the problem) once the updates have been installed. I have Sonar Artist on the same computer & it does not have this problem. Other than this one "Huge" issue, I have had no other problems with the new updates.
I have no idea if this is gonna be any help to you ...
I have found that my plugin mgr menu has been pretty confusing to me also...
Yesterday I right clicked the top of the plugin menu in the browser and set the drop-down menu to show all my plugs as per manufacturer / vendor ...
Everything was there and showed up nice and tidy in the browser....
Before that I was spending a lot of time searching around in the uncategorized section ...
glad that's over for now ..
all the best,
Kenny