I'm not sure what the mechanism is that makes this happen, but WaveLab shows up in my SONAR Tools dropdown...which is really handy if I need to do some microscopic wave editing.  (It makes a "tool copy" of the clip and opens up WaveLab with the clip in it.)  I'd like to be able to do the same thing with iZotope RX in order to use the Spectral Repair inside SONAR.

Hoping that it was just a matter of putting some stuff into the registry, I tried making a copy of the WaveLab section under...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cakewalk Music Software\Tools Menu

...changing it to "iZotope RX" and changing the path entries appropriately.  This made it obediently show up in the Tools menu, but it claims some sort of failure when you actually try to use it.

I haven't seen a "front door" way that you are supposed to be able to add tools...and the "back door" way isn't quite workin' yet.

By the way, the Spectral Repair gizmo in RX is freakin' magic.  I had a client wearing a bead necklace while playing acoustic guitar.  I guess I was in a hurry and wasn't paying attention...but the beads were clacking against the guitar every so often.  (Someone else in the studio had to point this out to me mid session.)  As long as the "clack" didn't fall on a guitar strum or changing vocal consonant, erasing the clack was undetectable...but I had to get out of SONAR to fix it.

So y'all are saying that NO ONE knows how to make this work?

it claims some sort of failure when you actually try to use it

Just guessing, but this could be some sort of clue...

I think its available, drops down,  as a vst effect, but only for like five second snippets. So I find myself just editing the whole track offline. That way I can clean the whole thing of noise and then open back up in Sonar. Like you, I find it to be completely amazing. One thing I wish is that the editing tool was not a rectangle but rather could be a circle because (at least the visualization) the sound waves are usually "wavy" and I'd like to be able to curve inside them.   Sure this doesn't help.   Ara    Unbelievably Great Music, V 

bitflipper

it claims some sort of failure when you actually try to use it

Just guessing, but this could be some sort of clue...

It's a clue...but not much.  It says...

SONAR 8.5 Producer
<!> Cannot create process
OK

This suggests to me that the RX executable hadn't even gotten involved yet.  I was thinking that it might be that the space embedded in the "iZotope RX.exe" name was confusing the parser...so I enclosed it in quotes in the registry.  That didn't help either.

I'm not seeing anywhere where the tool interface semantics are published...so I'm pretty much just guessing here.

Yeh, that's not much of a clue. "Cannot create process" is about as vague as can be. I was hoping for a more helpful error message.

In your registry key, do you have the full pathname of the RX executable? Verify that it's correct: copy it directly out of the registry and paste it into the Run window and make sure the application starts.

If that works, next try appending the path of an audio file and try executing that from the Run window.

bitflipper


Yeh, that's not much of a clue. "Cannot create process" is about as vague as can be. I was hoping for a more helpful error message.

In your registry key, do you have the full pathname of the RX executable? Verify that it's correct: copy it directly out of the registry and paste it into the Run window and make sure the application starts.

If that works, next try appending the path of an audio file and try executing that from the Run window.

I've done all that.  RX with a filename on the command line opens the file the way you would expect.   Note though that when you start WaveLab from the command line with a filename as a parameter, it doesn't open with the wav file open.  This suggests that there is part of the mechanism that I'm still missing.

If you're not using SONAR x64 have you tried SONAR Utils (google it) as it has a mechanism for adding things to the SONAR Tools Menu

The first place I would look is the shortcut for the iZotope program.  Some programs do not allow a direct launch of the exe.

The Program shortcut will tell you for certain what your registry settings and paths should be.

All you have to do is right click it if it has an icon on the desktop, and select properties.

It may also be something as simple as a syntax error in the registry.

You can also copy and paste the info from the Program shortcut to save typing.

EDIT: a line accidentally got deleted.
 
There is a variable in the registry called "CmdArgs"  that probably needs to be there.
 
But the easiest way to do this is with the Sonar util Mike suggested.
Or what the dude who posted after me said.

I got this from Cakewalk support when my Adode Audition wasn't showing up in the Tool dropdown. Hope it helps. Every place that it says Cool Ediit, change it to iZotope RX.
Click here for to downlod the Blank Tools Menu Entry.reg file.

1) Copy the Blank Tools Menu Entry.reg to your Windows Desktop.

2) Choose Start | Run.

3) In the Open window, type REGEDIT, and click OK.

4) Click the Plus sign next to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

5)  Click the Plus sign next to Software.

6)  Click the Plus sign next to Cakewalk Music Software.

7)  Click the Plus sign next to Tools Menu.

8) Click once on the folder labeled Tools Menu so it is highlighted.

9) Choose Registry | Import Registry File.

10) Locate the Blank Tools Menu Entry.reg file on your Desktop and double click it.

11) You'll now see a dialog box open that says Blank Tools Menu Entry has been successfully entered in the Registry. Click OK.

12) Beneath the Tools Menu folder, you'll see Blank Tools Menu. Click this once to highlight it.

13) On the right hand side of the screen, double click on the item that says ExePath.

14) In the Value Data field, type the path to Cool Edit's .exe file. You can find this by right clicking on the Cool Edit shortcut and choosing Properties.

15) On the right hand side of the screen, double click on the item that says MenuText.

16) In the Value Data field, type Cool Edit.

17) On the right hand side of the screen, double click on the item that says Status Bar Text.

18) In the Value Data field, type Run Cool Edit.

19) Close the Registry Editor and restart your computer.

You should now have Cool Edit in your Cakewalk Tools menu.