Renaming ProChannels - Organising ProChannel Workaround (Thanks ZO)

I just found the Video from Zo, and it can help with organising the ProChannels in the drop down box.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EBzPSx8150
 
By adding 1) to the full names of al the VKFX, for example '1) VKFX Phaser' and '1) VKFX Delay', they now appear at the the list and not clutter the bottom as the do now.
 
Thinking this through I may rename all the PCs, and number in a way that makes sense to me.
 
1) Delay and Modulation FX
2) Reverb
3) Distortion, Saturation and Amps
4) Compressors
5) Equalisers
1) Delay and Modulation FX2) Reverb3) Distortion, Saturation and Amps4) Compressors5) Equalisers

I think if you re-scan VSTs the registry Inventory might get reset, so you should export the registry key and save the renamed stuff as a backup.

Kamikaze
Ah too late. BTW, this isn't renaming the files, but the display name from within the files, so I don't see an issue.
 

 
There is no issue. I was just saying that all those REGEDITS will get lost and re-generated when you do a VST scan.
Or, maybe, just when you do a VST RESET.
But in any case, I would export the Inventory key from the registry and save the .reg file somewhere.
You can edit the .reg file with notepad and just save the parts that you changed, not the whole key. In other words, delete most of the stuff, just keep the name parts.
 

Unaffected by re-scans here

Kamikaze
Unaffected by re-scans here

OK, just resets, then.

The reason I would save the edited parts only (the name changes, not the other VST-like data) is so that when you do a RESET, you can merge those changes in the registry without changing any important re-scanned info.
 
For example, in an update to Sonar, a Prochannel parameter may change, so you need to reset them.
You won't want to merge the entire Inventory registry data - that would re-write old data over the changes, but you would like to change the descriptive names again.
 

All OK. Got the video up.

Watch out though as the plugs can be listed more than once, so you can be changing the name for the wrong one. I had Sonar open, so I could check the changes as I went along.

Kamikaze
Watch out though as the plugs can be listed more than once, so you can be changing the name for the wrong one. I had Sonar open, so I could check the changes as I went along.

I noticed that. For example Saturation Knob appears twice, one in the Internal folder and one in Internal/Softube.
Both are identical so I deleted the older file and the registry entry.
It looks like, perhaps, an update put things in the wrong place.
 

Kamikaze
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cakewalk Music Software\SONAR\Cakewalk VST X64\Inventory

Thanks. I had gone back and managed to get the video large enough to see the key in question. I remember back when Zo did that video.

This work around isn't really much help as I have 28 plugins in the list. On a 24" monitor @ 1920x1080 resolution I can see 20 PC plugs vertically. That excludes all of the VKFX.

Great dude ...i didn't thought about organising the prochanell since i don't use them .... but i will certainly when migrating at all on platnum .....
 
my softube don't show a picture so i will put them at the end
 
The regestry stuff is messed up when full reset or rescan (i it did when going from X1 to X3 or platnum) ....
Note that those that want to rename plugin can do it also via the plugin manager by double clicking the plugin name IN the plugin list (not in the layout they create) , it's the same  , but  take longer sometime if you have a big list of plugin since then manager will upadte itself after each "enter" 
 
Nice one dude !!