ChristopherM

@scook Steve - could you indulge me by setting out the recipe to invoke a layout from an existing .pgl?

@Noel Borthwick Thanks for looking at this Noel. In the Help that you reference, I can not see how to invoke an already created .pgl file. I confess that I just can't remember how I used to do this, because I had structured layouts for synths and fx and I rarely needed to invoke anything else. (Editing the layouts in plug-in manager was enough to keep them up-to-date).

Oops! Sorry, Steve @scook- I must not have email alerts turned on for the new forum, so I didn't know that you had replied. Thanks for your reply.

I no longer can see  any way to select a custom layout, although I can switch freely between the three "sort by" categories.  I can open, edit, save the custom layouts  via "manage layouts" (which opens  Cakewalk Plug-in Manager). But there is no longer any way to select a custom layout. I can't even remember how that used to happen - it was a reflex, like so many things in familiar software.

I've checked Preferences and I can't see anything that seems relevant. The File Location setting is pointing to the correct folder.

With your encyclopaedic knowledge of the inner workings, can you think of anything I can try?

There no longer seems to be any way of selecting and using a given Plug-in Layout.  It still seems to be possible to open and edit .pgl files in Plug-in Manager, however. Does anyone know whether this is a bug or a feature?