Somewhere along the line, after a lot of vst scans today (a long story), my NI plugin names have been screwed up. Specifically, whereas before I had for example "Absynth 5 FX Surround, Absynth 5 FX" and  "Reaktor5 FX, Reaktor5 Surround" and "Kontakt, Kontact 8out, Kontakt 16out" etc, now I just have "Absynth, Absynth", "Reaktor, Reaktor" and "Kontakt, Kontakt, Kontakt" etc. It no longer tells me how to differentiate between the different forms of these plugs. 

How can this be? I'm presuming the scan takes the plug names from the .dll's....well those .dll's are still named as they should be. It's as if Sonar has decided it's going to just read the first word of the NI plug names from now on. 

Is there anything I can do to rectify this quite frankly huge problem? 

Probably been like that since you updated to X2a http://forum.cakewalk.com/fb.ashx?m=2740546

plugin manager will display the filename and path for each plugin, and allow you to rename and repopulate anything in your plugin menu layout.

there has been a change in x2 or x2a in the naming convention applied with some choi,es not previously available. i remember reading.about it in a thread not long ago. theres either a.preferences setting or a new engry in one of the ini files. hth.

scook


Probably been like that since you updated to X2a http://forum.cakewalk.com/fb.ashx?m=2740546

I've been using X2a since the day it was released and have rescanned my VST's many times since then, yet the NI plugs have never changed and have always specified their type. This just happened today.  


So I read that thread and it seems you can put a value into the initialization file (VSTPlugInNameFormat)which specifies the naming convention for dll's. And I changed it in order to have the plugs named from the dll's.  

perfectprint


plugin manager will display the filename and path for each plugin, and allow you to rename and repopulate anything in your plugin menu layout.

So it does! Guess I'll just have to go into my custom layout and change the names manually 

sharke

perfectprint

plugin manager will display the filename and path for each plugin, and allow you to rename and repopulate anything in your plugin menu layout.

So it does! Guess I'll just have to go into my custom layout and change the names manually 

It ain't gonna be too much longer is it Sharke? :(

Promise you'll come back and visit the CH ok?

Bub

sharke

perfectprint

plugin manager will display the filename and path for each plugin, and allow you to rename and repopulate anything in your plugin menu layout.

So it does! Guess I'll just have to go into my custom layout and change the names manually 

It ain't gonna be too much longer is it Sharke? :(

Promise you'll come back and visit the CH ok?

LOL - stop filling my head with doom 

hey sharke fwiw i keep the vstpluginnameformat option set to 2 and no problems with it and multiple vst routings and versions.  esp ni. i hate the manual thing becausr my names sometimes reset on scans or updates.

swamptooth


hey sharke fwiw i keep the vstpluginnameformat option set to 2 and no problems with it and multiple vst routings and versions.  esp ni. i hate the manual thing becausr my names sometimes reset on scans or updates.

Surely this shouldn't be the case if you save a plugin layout though?