PlugIns Missing - How to find out which?

HI:)
 
I have an older file (3-4 years ago) and now at the start there's an error with PlugIns missing!
 
But:
 
In the Project I renamed the missing Synths and called them Bass and Organ, so now at loading the file Sonar is missing Bass and Organ:)
 
How can I find out which Synths I used years ago for that file?
 
Thanks a lot:)
Bassman.
 

@karhide
 
For sure I have the mixed Wave and I can mix it again with similar Instruments, but I had a great sounding Organ and can't remember which synth it was. Don't know why I forgot to freeze the synths too:(
 
thanks,
Bassman.
 

No, there is no easy way to determine what synths were used.
 
(Here's one possible method: name associations appear to be in library.db, which can be viewed with a hex editor. User-supplied plugin names are preceded by an MD5 hash that corresponds to the clsidPlugMD5 value in the registry, which in turn identifies the original name of the DLL. Like I said, no easy way.)
 
Faced with your dilemma, I would substitute other instruments. As suggested above, it's quite likely the project would be improved. When I first got the OTS Rick bass I dropped it into an old throw-away project to test it out. It was such an enormous improvement that I ended up resurrecting the project, re-recording the bass part and remixing the whole thing. The end result was that a previously written-off project ended up being a finished song.
 
P.S. If we're talking traditional Hammond organ, grab VB3. It's only 50 bucks and the best Hammond emulation I've ever heard.

@Bassman just have fun working on the new mix and let it take you somewhere new :) 

slartabartfast
 
While the advice to just start over when this happens is probably easier still, it flies in the face of the FIRST LAW OF SONAR:
The take that you cannot recover is always the best take you have ever heard. 

Haha - and the magical transformation from average to ultimate take only ever happens after it is lost.

HI:)
 
For bitflipper wrote about the "Library.db" I had the idea to read the Project ".cwp" file with a HEX-Editor and:
 
Here we are:)
 
Just search for the name of the PlugIn, "Bass" and "Organ" in my case and on the left of the name is written the real name of the synth, on the right the Preset you used!! Great:)
 
For me it was Trilian for the Bass and Aranami2 for the Organ. OK, I've worked with Trilian years ago, not any more, but I have never heard from a synth called Aranami:(  Obviously I used it, I must have used it:)  I have to look for...for I regularly make Backups from all Cakewalk related Dirs (Content, Vsts, ProgramData a.s.o.), there must be at least a DLL from it....hopefully registered..
 
Thanks to all!
Bassman.
 
 
 

cmiiw but i seem to remember pre-x series that the missing plugin name was still shown in the UI, but greyed out? or maybe i just dreamt that?