win 10 plug in manager problems

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2018/10/01 13:22:30 (permalink)

win 10 plug in manager problems

Hi all..i just got myself a new ssd and upgraded from win 7 to win 10.
i just finished installing sonar platinum and some of my plug ins and
noticed that they are all listed as "uncategorized" where as in win 7
they were organised  by type  i.e compressor ,reverb etc....
ive tried rescanning but no joy..this is annoying..
any solutions? thanks
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    scook
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    Re: win 10 plug in manager problems 2018/10/01 13:31:37 (permalink)
    You may have to re-categorize the plug-ins if there is no backup of the %appdata%\Cakewalk\Library\Library.db from the old install.
     
    VST3 plug-ins automatically get categorized based on the labels in the plug-ins if the manufacturer added any.
     
    The rest of the plug-ins do not have this feature and Cakewalk created categories in the database for quite a few but not all non-VST3 plug-ins.
     
    Here is the help page about how to maintain plug-in categories.
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    Re: win 10 plug in manager problems 2018/10/01 15:13:58 (permalink)
    You'll only have to re-categorize them once. After that, they'll be fine. You can make a backup of library.db to be certain.


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    Re: win 10 plug in manager problems 2018/10/02 13:25:18 (permalink)
    thanks but on my win7 drive splat organises  vst 2 plugins perfectly...very annoying
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    Re: win 10 plug in manager problems 2018/10/02 13:34:19 (permalink)
    Was %appdata%\Cakewalk\Library\Library.db copied from the Win7 machine to the Win10 machine?
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    Re: win 10 plug in manager problems 2018/10/02 17:27:57 (permalink)
    It is not a function of an operating system to categorize audio or MIDI plugins for Sonar.  However, Sonar will give a list based on type if you use VST 3 plugins. You will need to do it yourself for VST 2.4. 
     
    Organizing plug-ins
    Once you have more than a few plug-in effects and/or soft synths installed on your computer, you might want to
    organize the way they appear in the various plug-in and synth menus that you use. The Cakewalk Plug-in
    Manager is a powerful tool to organize your plug-in menus. Open the Plug-in Manager by using the Utilities >
    Cakewalk Plug-in Manager command, and display the Plug-in Manager’s help file by pressing F1.
    By default, plug-ins are sorted by categories such as EQ, Dynamics, Reverb, etc.

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