I was wondering if this is happening to you. This only happens with Waves plugins. Every time I install a new waves plugin or bundle it installs the plugs but doesn't make the registry entries for the plug so of course Sonar(X2) won't see the plugins. I have to uninstall all my Waves plugins and reinstall them all back including the new one. Waves support say's it's a Sonar thing that everyone using Sonar has this problem. Idon't buy it but I wanted to ask.
 
Thanks
 

No problem here (also running X2)....don't have that many of them but have installed on two or three occasions.  Sonar see all of them.....  best of luck!

Did you rescan the plugs in the plugin manager after install?

Yup...you have to simply rescan all your vst plugs...no need to reinstall all your waves stuff EXCEPT...make sure when you run the waves installer to install your new plug that you also have all your old waves plugs checked as well...which they should be by default.

I do scan my plugs after the install but they are not there. It doesn't make sense.

Have you made sure to include the folder that contains your waves shell in your scan path or made sure to have the waves installer load the shell into an existing folder that is included in your scan path?

I also had problems getting my Waves plugs to register. You want to hit that tab that says reset plug-ins when you have the plug in manager open. Even after I did this they didn't show up until I exited Sonar and re-loaded it.

Reset plugs
Load new plugs
Rescan all plugs (as Our Ol' Pal says make sure the paths are correct)
Exit Plug manager
Exit Sonar
Restart Sonar

Those be the steps I needed to get mine sorted.

yorolpal, The waves shell is in my cakewalk vst folder and still when I install a new Waves plug it doesn't show up in Sonar vst manager after I scan it so I'm left with no choice but to un-install all my Waves plugs then re-install them again. Of couse the Waves tech insists this happens because of Sonar. I asked the tech how does Sonar prevent Waves from writting the plugin entry to the registry and he had no answer but was positive this is Sonars fault. Well I won't be installing another Waves plug anytime soon because I have a lot of them and really won't be needing more for a while.
 
If this happends to any of you I'd like to know. Thanks.
 

I had the same problem when updating the Waves plug-ins. The issue, in my case was a double-whammy. First, Waves updated the online code versions from 9.0 to 9.2 or something to that effect, and X2 "looks" for version 9.0, which (now) no longer exists. So, you have to go to Preferences, then VST settings and click "Reset all Plugins". This was absolutely detrimental to any sessions I had previously had Waves plug-ins from version 9.0, but you can open the session in another version of X1 or X2 (someone else's, if necessary) and "save" each Waves plug-ins settings; then recall those settings in the new Waves 9.2 plugs after the update made your life a bit more challenging. Hope this helps!!

First thing I do is reboot computer after installing ,,,,then I open sonar and go to manage plugins at the top of the plugin drop down list in FX box ...... I add it to my grouping folder of choice from the VST list and save. And presto..... I used to struggle with this until I got used to the Plugin manager , Now its easy. Hope that helps