Ozone 5 and Sonar X3 Question...

Hi, 
Possible dumb question coming.
I am using Sonar X3b with no problems. I'll upgrade to version E when I finish this project I'm working on now.
I'm ready to Master and installed Ozone 5. During installation, I chose 32 and 64 bit. I'm using the 64 bit version on a Win 7 Pro machine, but wanted the 32 bit in there should I ever have a problem and need to use the 32 bit version Sonar.
I open my Plug In Manager, I do see Ozone 5 in two places, so they were scanned.
But nowhere on Izotopes site or in their Manual or Help.pdf, or anywhere else after I Googled, can I find out how to use it in Sonar X3.
I assumed that I'd go to the Master Bus and right click in the FX box and then I'd see the Ozone Plug Ins, but they are not there.
I tried to run Ozone 5 as a stand alone (can that be done?), just so I can at least Authorize it with my s/n, but can't figure out if that's possible either.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.

Thanks. But as I said, I don't see it as an option to add it to the FX Window on my mastering bus. I see two references to Ozone 5 it in the Plug In Manager, so I guess they were scanned, and the .dll's seem to be in the right place, C:\Program Files/Cakewalk/Vstplugins. I just can't get it to open in Sonar X3.
 
 

Yes, Vern. And I see the .dll's where they should be in the proper folders too. I just checked the Registry and the .dll is there too, but I'm not trying to figure out if the .dll is simply not "registered." I'm Googling that now to see how I determine that. Thanks, all.

Hello,
 
Did you notice an increase in your number of plugins when Sonar scanned them. Try to do a rescan and reset of your vst's. I am not sure if you are on a 64bit OS and 64bit Sonar if having the 32bit Ozone .dlls will actually help.
With that said as noted before, right mouse clicking the effects bin should bring up your list of plugins, and Ozone should be there under VST and VST 3 if I am not mistaken.  As a test only install the 64bit version and see if it shows up. I would also recommend having the 32bit versions of plugis's separated from the 64bit. IHTH

scook
Is the plug-in list you are looking at using the "Default All Plug-ins" layout? The layout for each menu is set at the top of the menu. The browser is set with the drop down on the Plug-ins tab.

you didn't answer scook's suggestion and my money is there.

Also look under VST3 in the FX menu when you right click on the buss FX bin. 

Thanks, John, and again, Beagle. 

John, 
So nice of you to say that. I appreciate it.
Jerry 

Jerrycast
...Anyone have Ozone 5 working, or, is there an uninstall step I missed (removing it from the Plug In layout?)...

I've been using Ozone 5 Advanced for several months without any issues and love it! I use it both for mastering  and with the ability to use separate plug-ins (i.e. EQ, Dynamics, Insight) in each track, it has made mixing much easier with all the visual feedback. (Yes I listen too!).
 
Sorry to hear your having these problems with Ozone 5, but it does work well.
 
Walt

When you say that sonar is crashing, give us some details about exactly what's going on.
 
you open sonar, you hit play?  you insert ozone?  sonar disappears?  puts up a pop up saying it's sending a trouble report?    give us as much detail as you can.

John
Upgrade to the E patch. It fixes a lot of bugs. 

No problems with Ozone 5 here, all good with X3e!

Hi Everyone, 
 
Again, thanks. OK, let me be more specific.
 
I have an audio/video only machine. i7 fast processor, 16 Gigs of fast ram, SSD drives, no other programs except Sonar X3b and Adobe Creative Cloud CC for video editing. Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. No virus software, no connection to the internet (except for activations). I've also used the Viper tweaks.
 
I upgraded from Sonar 8.5 to Sonar X1 (didn't use it too much) and then to Sonar X3b, where I am now and has worked well on 5 projects. I'm hesitant to upgrade to E now that I am in the middle of an important project that people are waiting for.
 
After I installed Ozone 5, Sonar is freezing, giving me a NOT RESPONDING error message up top, and 8 times out of 10 it WILL recover after long waits of 20-30 seconds, and then sometime give me a pop up box saying Not Responding, close program or look for solution, blah, blah. This will happen as soon as click on something or try to start playback with the spacebar. Even after I removed Ozone from my master bus, the program still was herky jerky and not responsive.
 
My guess is that either I should do a complete uninstall, clean, and reinstall going to the E version (after this project) and try again with Ozone (Ozone is now uninstalled so that I can continue mixing), or maybe its my project.
 
I have 6 instruments using Dimension Pro, one True Piano, one Lounge Lizard, one guitar track that was recorded, one lead vocal and three backup singers (with one singer doing 8 takes of harmonies and accents).
 
I know this is wrong, now, after I've done some reading, but I've got 4 instances of the Sonitus Compressor, three instances of Breverb, one instance of EQ, and one instance of that vocal processor that has the De-esser, EQ, Compression and Doubler (only using the Doubler and De-esser).
 
Could my problem be that I need to combine things to delete some compressors and verbs, and then also Bounce the MID/Sample tracks to audio tracks, and then this will free up processor power to allow Ozone to not freeze the computer by simply adding it to my master buss as I did?
 
Thanks again.
 

Assuming that you don't have any old projects that used 32 bit Ozone 5, there is no reason for you to install the 32 bit version at all, since you're using a 64 bit OS. Within the 64 bit version, you still have choices. You can install the VST2 version, the VST3 version, or both. I'm pretty sure there is no actual difference in functionality between those two.
 
I have both installed, but I use the VST2 version, only because Sonar correctly indicates the 64 bit audio processing when it is inserted in the effects bin, while Sonar displays the 32 bit indicator when the VST3 version is inserted in the effects bin. I describe those indicators as double quotes (64 bit) versus single quotes (32 bit), since that's what they look like to me.
 
In case you're wondering, the audio processing bits are a completely different parameter than the OS bits, so I hope I didn't confuse you with that. Both 32 and 64 bit plugins can use either 32 or 64 bit audio processing, it's up to the plugin vendor to make that decision. Like you, I am on a 64 bit OS, so I only use 64 bit plugins, but in addition to that, I try to only use plugins that process the audio using 64 bits. Some do (Izotope, Voxengo e.g.) and some don't (IK Multimedia, Native Instruments e.g.).
 
Ozone is somewhat resource hungry, but with the hardware that you listed, the project you described should not overload your machine, unless something else is wrong. You may want to determine whether there are any hardware issues, and also check things such as whether Sonar is configured to use multiple cores of your processor.

Preferences > Audio  > Configuration File variable ThreadSchedulingModel. To see the Configuration File option make sure Advanced in selected at the bottom of the Preferences dialog. Read about ThreadSchedulingModel here http://www.cakewalk.com/D...;help=INI_Files.6.html