exitse7en Posted September 29 Share Posted September 29 (edited) 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. Edited September 30 by exitse7en Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user 905133 Posted September 29 Share Posted September 29 (edited) Using the Browser's PlugIns Tab dropdown menu for Audio FX, did you accidentally switch to a custom plugin layout? I almost always use the Sort by Manufacturer as my default, but when I switched to one of my older personal plugin layouts, I was able to get a layout that has a smaller subset of my Audio FX PlugIns in the list. Switching to Sort by Category, Sort by Manufacturer, and Sort by Type each gave me more complete lists than my custom layouts. Not sure if this is what happened in your case, but that's one place to look. On second thought, your list is showing MIDI FX (as well as FX Chain and External Insert). I have never seen that, so I defer to others on this. Edited September 30 by User 905133 to add a second thought 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exitse7en Posted September 30 Author Share Posted September 30 15 minutes ago, User 905133 said: Using the Browser's PlugIns Tab dropdown menu for Audio FX, did you accidentally switch to a custom plugin layout? I almost always use the Sort by Manufacturer as my default, but when I switched to one of my older personal plugin layouts, I was able to get a layout that has a smaller subset of my Audio FX PlugIns in the list. Switching to Sort by Category, Sort by Manufacturer, and Sort by Type each gave me more complete lists than my custom layouts. Not sure if this is what happened in your case, but that's one place to look. On second thought, your list is showing MIDI FX (as well as FX Chain and External Insert). I have never seen that, so I defer to others on this. 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoens Posted October 3 Share Posted October 3 (edited) Something wrong with the Browser when Audio FX is listing MIDI FX instead. Try removing and reinstalling Cakewalk as administrator. Edited October 3 by sjoens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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