Uninstall Sonar X3 Without Losing Synths and EFX Plugins?

[David Noll]

I'm wondering, after installing Cakewalk By Bandlab, is it possible to uninstall Sonar X3 Producer without losing the various synth and EFX plugins that are in Sonar X3?

So that they can be used in Cakewalk by Bandlab.

Running Windows 10

[Promidi]

Remember, some plugins require X3 to be present to work in Cakewalk by Bandlab.

[Nigel Mackay]

The actual X3 DAW software is quite small, so the easiest is to just leave it. By removing it you won't suddenly have all this disk space freed up.

[scook]

Using the X3 uninstaller will remove plug-ins and possibly shared files needed by CbB.

 

It is possible to manually remove the parts of X3 not used by CbB or other Cakewalk DAWs but as noted above it will not free up much disk space,

IIRC, the full install of X3 excluding plug-ins, loop and shared files uses ~1.2 GB.

Of that ~90% is "Cakewalk Content" and almost all of that is in the X3 tutorial folder.

Deleting tutorials and sample projects from Cakewalk Content returns most of the disk space used by the DAW.

 

Another place to clean up are the minidump folders. These are located in the user folders for CbB and all the Cakewalk DAWs.

For example, the full path to the minidump folder for CbB is "%appdata%\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core\MiniDumps"

Check each Cakewalk DAW folder in "%appdata%\Cakewalk" and delete the contents of the minidump folders.

 

[David Noll]

Thanks so much for your help Promidi, Nigel and Scook,

I've just left the Sonar X3 installation intact and have installed and am now using Cakewalk by Bandlab.

All us well.

Wishing you all the best!

David