Re-Name effects

Use a custom plug-in layout or rename the plug-ins using the plug-in properties dialog. The problem with renaming plug-ins using the properties dialog is the custom names will be lost anytime a VST reset is performed.

Yes, a custom layout will only change the name of the plug-in in the layout.

streckfus
My understanding was that changing the name in the properties under VST configuration should change the name displayed in the FX bin. Not so?

The name immediately reverts back when I change the name of any effect pluggin.  Its not sticking.
 
So my answer would be "not so".

I mean theoretically that should change the name in the fx bin, if the dialog would accept the changes.

I sent an email to support earlier so I'll report back if I hear anything.

This would mark the first ever bug that I have found since cakewalk 1. lol

I'm trying to rename my effects plugins.  I can't rename those.

I may have spoken too soon. Do you have both the VST2 and VST3 versions installed?

Yes
Yes
Maybe

Hi
 
You need to go to utilities >plug in properties
>create new folder and rename it waves .
 
then select the VST Audio Effects (VST) under plugin in Categories and from the registered plugins select the waves vsts (((see file names as your clicking on each vst it will tell you if its a wave vst ))) and press the add plugin to add them to the waves folder you created ((( Just make sure before you click add plugin that the WAVES folder you created is selected >Highlighted< and the plugin your going to add is selected also > then hit add plug in ))) . Do this for all the different vsts and you should have a list at the end of selecting all you vst fx I>E
Waves
Vst 3
Camel Audio
Antares
and so on
 
then you click the save button on top right of plug in manager box and remember where you save to .
 
then go to your track inside sonar and right click >Insert audio fx
 
then right up the to select plug in layouts
 
then select the file name you just saved and WALLAAHHH you have organized all of you fx and the mess is gone
 
ALL THE BEST
Oh yeah do this for your instruments also :)

scook
Been able to change some VST3 names by double-clicking on the plug-in in the Plug-in Manager, entering a friendly name then open the new plug-in name properties and save it away. Once the name is changed it does not want to change again. That is the extent of my research so far.

 
I followed those same steps (double-clicking the plugin from the manager) and this time the rename took, at least as far as the browser window was concerned.  I placed the newly named plugins in my layout, saved it, then inserted them into an FX bin on a track, and the name defaulted back to the original.  I went back into the plugin manager and they had reverted back to their original names.
 
I also tried renaming the actual .vst3 file name in my scan path just to see what would happen, and that too was a no-go.  Couldn't remove "FabFilter" from the file name.  Which is kinda funny since the OP wants to see the company name and I don't. :)

There are 6 .ini files, two for each version of Sonar (X2 Producer, X3 Producer, Platinum).  One in the hidden AppData\Roaming directory and another in the ProgramData\Cakewalk directory.  I assume both files for Platinum would need to be changed?  When I go to the File>Initialization File through Preferences there's nothing there.
 
Getting late here too so I'll probably save it for tomorrow, but thanks for the heads up.

Yep, I went through Sonar first and went to the initialization file there, but there wasn't any content in that window.

Probably doesn't matter though because I renamed all VST and dll files, rescanned, and the default names came back, I'm guessing because of what you said about the registry.

So I just switched the names back to normal. Not a huge deal since I typically put those plugins in a particular order anyway, it would just be nice to clean things up a bit.

Who knows, maybe it's a glitch that'll get worked out in the next update in a couple weeks!

Because you have waves plugins select 2 as the variable for VSTPluginNameFormat=2 at least I think it'is. Not at my PC at the moment.

One of the options adds the Waves she'll dll name to the back of the plugin name.

i just wish there was a way that FX names in the FX Bins can use the name I give it in my custom Plugin-In Layout over the actual VST registered name, as I like my names better.