mudgel
Will the trial version recognise your existing plugins? I thought it would be a limitation of the trial.

It has on several scans...according to where I downloaded it ( http://www.cakewalk.com/products/sonar/web-trial.aspx ) the trial is fully functional...but it also states it is a 30 day trial and I'm only getting 15 days so I dunno.
That said, it does the same thing in X2.
Thanks Michael,
Randy
EDIT: I don't know if this is relevant or not but in an existing project, if I double click any Aria instance it opens fine...it just doesn't show up in the layouts.
 

Since this doesn't seem to be X3 specific I wonder if I should start a new thread with "Have any Aria users seen this" as the subject?
I hate to be a pain but I really do need GPO and IO.
EDIT: never mind that dumb question on 2nd thought I think it's obvious I should

Did you install as the Administrator?  The first time I installed X3 I didn't do that even though it's clearly stated in the installation instructions :(  I uninstalled X3.  Before re-installing it, I opened X2 and many of the new vsts that came with X3 were greyed out. Even after re-installing X3, I had to re-isntall the plug-ins to get them all to work. I only re-installed the program initially becuase I as trying to avoid having to re-einstalled DimPro and Beatscape which take a long time...

Thanks Alex, this was doing this in X2 too...I only installed the trial X3 in hopes it would straighten out the issue.
That said, I'm pretty sure I installed X2 as administrator but if I don't have an answer by tomorrow I'll uninstall/reinstall everything I suppose.
BTW, I've started a more recent thread (Anyone using Aria player with Garritan products?) since this issue doesn't appear to be exclusive to X3. 

Is it a plug in layout issue - are you sure your plugin layout is showing all of your available plug ins?