Plugins not showing up (SOLVED)

did you add the path for the 64bit dll of GTR in sonar before scanning? 

yes, but my point is about the 64bit one.  you might have only the path for the 32bit one in the scan path.

How Long is the pathname to the dlls?

Did you create a custom menu for your plugins?
If you are looking in the browser into you custom menu you will not see the plugin listed.
You would need to update your menu in the plugin manager or look at the default menu for all plugins.
 
Thats if this is your case.
 
Hope this helps.
 
 

Ok this is the way its laid out in my system and it works.
 
OS C:>Program Files>Native Insturment>Guitar Rig 4>Guitar Rig 4
                                                               >Service Center>Service Center
 
The above would be your stand alone with the program Application file inside.
However if the programer (due to the license issues because of the service center is also there) programed the VST to point to the above file it would have to be exactly in the right folders and subfolder the programmer specified.  So make sure that it was loaded with it's defualts.  I not sure if this is the case but it could be.
 
For the VST I have:
 
OS C: > Program files > Cakewalk > Guitar Rig>64bit>Guitar Rig 4.dll
 
Hope this helps.
 

Wave - thanks.. yes, I'm looking in both the VST effect and synth for completeness.

I would have thought the path settings were ok, given the effect is found when Sonar scans those paths for VSTs and it's listed correctly in the cakewalk plugin manager.    Additionally, all my other 32 and 64 bit effects are showing up properly, but I'll doublecheck the paths later this evening to be sure though. 

I believe you are correct there. 

if it's not showing up in your default menu (which I've seen this happen before), there are two things I know of that you can do:

1) work around is to save it as a custom menu (make sure you name it and save it), then you have to select the named menu instead of default when you use the menus.

2) uninstall and reinstall the plugin.  I've done that before with success for the exact problem you're having.

karma1959


Beagle - thanks.  Yes, oddly enough, I created a custom plugin list, and added GTR - however it doesn't show up there either! I'll try reinstalling as per your recommendation to see if that helps.

I did the same thing with Kontakt (could this be an NI problem?).  the 32bit version would show up but not the 64bit version, even if I put it in a custom saved menu.  I had to reinstall to get it to show up.

DOH!  yeah, sorry, regardless I think that reinstallation is the next step.

Serious blonde moment on my part!!  Upon review, I found Waves GTR3.5 installed the x64 VST to a different path than my standard c:\program files\cakewalk\vstplugins, so once I modified the path in Sonar, rescanned and it's fine now.  D'OH!!

Thanks for the help everyone.
Russ