Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk
]

You have a few formatting choices here for the VST name, which are controllable via a new ini setting.

Add a new variable  VSTPlugInNameFormat via Edit | Preferences | Initialization file. 
You can set the value to either 0, 1, 2, 3.

0 - Format 0:  Vst supplied name which is the new default
1 - Format 1:  DLL Name which is the old behavior
2 - Format 2:  VST Plugin Name (DLL Name)
3 - Format 3:  DLL Name (VST Plugin Name)


After you create the variable, restart SONAR and the menus should display the new naming format.

Thanks Noel, this indeed is the perfect solution.
Thanks!

datadog

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk
]

You have a few formatting choices here for the VST name, which are controllable via a new ini setting.

Add a new variable  VSTPlugInNameFormat via Edit | Preferences | Initialization file. 
You can set the value to either 0, 1, 2, 3.

0 - Format 0:  Vst supplied name which is the new default
1 - Format 1:  DLL Name which is the old behavior
2 - Format 2:  VST Plugin Name (DLL Name)
3 - Format 3:  DLL Name (VST Plugin Name)


After you create the variable, restart SONAR and the menus should display the new naming format.

It doesn't work here on UAD or NI plugs. I typed the new variable exactly as written and tried all the options...

Works for me (using the format 3):

I had one group of plugs...Audifex pedal plugins...that showed up in plugin manager but not in the list of plugs to select until I went in and removed all of them from their folder...replaced them in their folder and resaved plugin manager.  So far my only trouble.

Arachnaut, thanks for showing that it works in the Browser, although I never use that.
They don't show up right in the Plugin Manager in X2a but they did before the upgrade patch. I can live with it...

datadog


Arachnaut, thanks for showing that it works in the Browser, although I never use that.
They don't show up right in the Plugin Manager in X2a but they did before the upgrade patch. I can live with it...

Yes - the Plug-in Manager just shows the vst name, not the dll. But if you click the name it will show the filename below.


The browser is great if you have a lot of plug-ins - and you can organize them any way you like.


I guess the plug-in manager does not read the INI file that Sonar uses.

Mod Bod


Scanned my plugins and got results that I didn't expect.  I'm getting VSTi Folders in Audio drop down menus.  I'm also getting 32 bit versions of plugins showing up when only the 64 bit versions should appear.  This is in the browser and not the old Add FX menus.

Just for the record, the 32 bit issue was because I had a double installation of the UAD plugins being scanned.  I fixed this by not scanning the x86 installation.


However, I got the unexpected results as the others did.  I have also seen the fix for that and I am going to fix that now.

Tried the different options and the Waves plugins seem to like the default the best.    The UAD mono plugins are in a separate folder so that is neatly organized that way.  The old default didn't work with the Waves shell at all.