But in Reaper I see two copies of every V10 plugin. One loads as V9 the other as V10. In SONAR and Cubase these V9 versions are hidden. Though SONAR/Bandlab shows the old 9.92 version number in the Browser window status bar, when it loads it is the V10 version. But in Reaper I can actually load the V9 version of plugins I have V10 versions of. Cakewalk Sonar 8 Plugins Bundle Vst V1.0 / Free Download. VST Plugins, Audio Units (AU), AAX Plugins, Reason Rack Extensions, iOS Apps. 8.1, Windows 8.
Waves Updated to 9.9.2 Run Waves Central to Update All have been updated to version 9.92. This across-the-board update offers improvements and bug fixes. As I mentioned above, I ran all of my VST-scanning apps after updating, to check for problems. Found none, so I assumed there were none. I'm going to guess that what happened to me was due to the fact that I don't pay WUP, and that I've got a lot of Waves plugins that are out of the 1-year free update period. I was starting a new song yesterday, and went for a Waves plugin I use all the time.
Nor were a bunch of others. I remember a lot of threads over the years re Waves plugins disappearing. Here's what I believe happened. When the update ran, one step in that process was to delete ALL of the Waves plugins (the.bundle files) in: C: Program Files (x86) Waves Plug-Ins V9 and then only redownloaded the ones still under warranty (a lot bought for $29) and reinstalled them.
The solution turned out to be running Waves Central and reinstalling the missing, post-WUP plugins. I then needed to force each VST-scanning app to do a full, clean rescan. Next time there's an update, I need to click through it slowly and look for some option about retaining old (post-WUP or whatever they might call it) files, or at least download and reinstall everything that was there before the update. Pretty sure WUP has nothing to do with this. But Waves did change the names of their VST shell plugins with this update. Depending on how you have SONAR setup that kind of name change can cause plugins to vanish.
If you have SONAR set to scan for plugins on startup it should have done the right thing, but if you have it set for manual scanning you will have to do a scan yourself and plugins will look like they vanished. When I updated, the installer didn't remove any of the bundles (for me), but if the Waves installer does do that (it can be flaky) you just have to do the full install in Waves Central and then a scan inside SONAR (or have it scan on startup). When the names of the VST shell plugins change like this, it can cause all sorts of issues since the DLL/VST3 that was being used will no longer be there. In this case the previous wave plugins were WaveShell-VST3 9.91_x64.vst3 the new ones are WaveShell-VST3 9.92_x64.vst3 (and if you have lots of Wave plugins you can end up with multiples with numbers as in WaveShell1 and WaveShell2, etc). Some of the Waves plugins are also in a 9.7 shell (I think that's just StudioRack but I could be wrong).
When the shell names change, all sorts of things can happen, in any DAW, not just SONAR.
Ah.good old freebies. Thanks Larry! Here are some of my opinions on the various plugins, based on past notes. (I maintain a big Excel spreadsheet of all the plugins/VST's installed on my computer).
Of those listed above: 1. 7air DRX8R 1.1 (reverb) - Kinda sucky; reverb is VERY subtle. Ambience (reverb) - Decent reverb. Easy to use EQ to tame freqs; I'm liking this one more and more. EpicVerb (reverb) - Very good sounding reverb with many options/tweaks. FerricTDS (saturation) - Subtle saturation. Ine ccie datacenter workbook download pdf. Tessla Pro mkII (saturation) - Subtle saturation.
DCAM FreeComp (compressor) - Sounds terrible. Density mkIII (compressor) - Good comp; has external sidechain. Drumatic 4 (drums) - Must load into audio track. Note that many of plugins, especially by Variety of Sound, are only 32-bit. I'm going to check out some of the drum plugins. I have many in my plugin list, most of which were so terrible they were removed. However, the list has some fresh ones I haven't seen/tried before.