VTs in Sonar platinum

[Dave Winters]

I downloaded 2025 Sonar, I t didn’t look any different than CBL. I did not have the 2025 Sonar interface, was still on a cakewalk by bandlab interface, so after checking it out I found I didn’t have the new interface at all.so I uninstalled the download I had used and downloaded again, now I have the new interface but the vts scan box is mostly greyed out. And not any of my plug-ins will work. I get the missing plugin message. How can I get this to work 

 

[Bristol_Jonesey]

Sounds like you uninstalled CbB which might account for the lack of plugins.

I suggest you install it again

[Starship Krupa]

On 5/16/2025 at 7:02 AM, Dave Winters said:

the vts scan box is mostly greyed out. And not any of my plug-ins will work.

I don't know what a "vts scan box" is, so you need to give more information on that.

Missing plug-ins is usually a matter of going into Preferences/Files/VST Settings and making sure that the path to the folder where you have installed your VST plug-ins is listed.

In my case, my VST2 plug-ins are in S:\VST, so I have that set in Preferences. The file location for VST3 plug-ins is usually already set in Sonar because VST3's have a canonical location they all install to (C\Program Files\Common Files\VST3).

Check those preferences settings.

Uninstalling CbB shouldn't delete any plug-ins other than the ones that come with CbB, and those all come with Sonar as well. The only exception I can think of would be if you had your VST2's installed to a subfolder of the Cakewalk folder.