I'm having the weirdest problem all of a sudden. I just did a manual scan to add a few more plugins - a mix of instruments and effects. I usually immediately open up the browser and sort them to their appropriate categories when I do this, but suddenly my FX category was completely empty. Instruments still show up as expected. And when i use the drop down to insert an effect from the track or bus itself the effects are all there as expected. See screenshots...
When I was initially scanning it got hung up, so I closed Cakewalk and re-opened and scanned again, then everything worked as expected until I noticed this. Maybe the database was messed up. Is there some way to just rebuild the VST categories database without having to reinstall Cakewalk? I don't know, that was my only thought as a potential issue, but I'm open to ideas!
Edit: Reinstalling Cakewalk didn't help (I'm on 24.07, by the way).
I also discovered that I can make a custom layout and add all the plugins back to folders, so I could do that as a work around if I need to. I'm just really hoping I don't need to, because I have over 2000 plugins (and an addiction, apparently, hah). It's just the default FX folder that's not showing up in the browser for some reason.
Nope, it's the same as it's always been, and I tried all of the different options when I noticed it just in case. Thank you, though.
