If I delete and reinstall the VST adapter, what will happen?

[Moe Shinola]

This is for Sonar 3PE, btw.

I figure I'll save the adapter on a CD or floppy(since it can't be installed separately from the Sonar install CD- Grrrr!!), then delete it from everything, including the registry, then reinstall it and re-scan everything. I'm sick and tired of the properties window showing every plugin 3 and 4 times, and having to make any changes to all the copies. It's a deadly chore to bother with. This way there will only be one instance of everything.
One problem though. A lot of my plugins' registry entries seem to be only grouped under the cakewalk adapter's entry, so what will happen to them if i delete it? Will they reorganize themselves elsewhere in my registry or do I need to manually delete and reinstall every single plugin in order to do this?

[_niko_]

Hm, not sure if I understand you correctly but in theory pressing the "Reset all" button in the adapter should delete all wrapped plugins from the registry.
As for installing the wrapper manually:
All you need to do is copy cwvst.dll and VstConfig.exe somewhere. Then do start->execute->regsvr32 "c:\Cakewalk VST Adapter 4\cwvst.dll"
of course you will have to adjust the path to your setup...

[Moe Shinola]

Hm, not sure if I understand you correctly but in theory pressing the "Reset all" button in the adapter should delete all wrapped plugins from the registry.
As for installing the wrapper manually:
All you need to do is copy cwvst.dll and VstConfig.exe somewhere. Then do start->execute->regsvr32 "c:\Cakewalk VST Adapter 4\cwvst.dll"
of course you will have to adjust the path to your setup...

Yes, I tried "reset all". There are still several copies of each plugin in the properties area. I figured the only way to empty the thing out would be to just delete it and start over.
That procedure you describe, is that after I've deleted the adapter? I've never done start-execute before.

[_niko_]

That's strange. That propably means that you will have to search for the duplicate entries in the registry and delete them their, since I suspect simply uninstalling the wrapper won't remove all registry entries.
And yes the regsvr32 command would be the way to manually reinstall the vst adapter.

[kp]

Check that you don't have the folders listed multiple times in the first page of the adapter - nested ones (eg. /Shared VST and /Shared VST/VST can generate 2 entries for something in /Shared VST/VST).

[Moe Shinola]

Well, I did find out the correct way to do "reset all". Youre supposed to click "cancel" instead of "next" after you do it. It's interesting that The first window you see when the adapter comes up still showed the same plugin names it always does even after I did the reset. So I re-scanned everything, and... same 2 or 3 entries per plugin as before. I'll take a look in the registry for duplicate plugins.

[whyterabbyt]

Did you use the FXpansion adaptor prior to V3 of Sonar? If so, it placed its registry in a different place from where Cakewalk's version does, meaning that a reset wont affect entries created by the FXpansion version...