Magic Russ Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 I was wondering if anyone knew of an app which would be able to tell me which VST instruments are in use in my Sonar projects? I know there was one a while ago which could list which effects were in which projects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wookiee Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 Open the Synth rack! 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treesha Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 Project scope by adamczyk ? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moddelmog Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 https://adamczyk.com/miscellaneous-files/88-projectscope-exe-for-cakewalk-project-files 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moddelmog Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Steve Moddelmog said: https://adamczyk.com/miscellaneous-files/88-projectscope-exe-for-cakewalk-project-files You can use it to search within a project without opening it, or you can search your Cakewalk Projects folder to find, for example, all projects that use Kontakt. Unfortunately, it won't tell you what presets were used for each VST. Edited October 9 by Steve Moddelmog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Russ Posted Monday at 03:36 PM Author Share Posted Monday at 03:36 PM I've used projectscope before, but it does not do a good job of finding instruments. It only seems to find instruments if they are in the effects rack (either used as effects or set up in the old school method. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azslow3 Posted Monday at 05:32 PM Share Posted Monday at 05:32 PM 1 hour ago, Magic Russ said: I've used projectscope before, but it does not do a good job of finding instruments. It only seems to find instruments if they are in the effects rack (either used as effects or set up in the old school method. I have just tried and it couldn't find Kontakt, at least it was not listed in plug-ins. While I am not going to re-create that tool, if you write what you really want and implementing that is relatively simple (for me), I may consider to write that. F.e. a command line tool which list all synths in specified project (can be saved into file, run from a batch script which search CWP files, etc.) is not a big problem. Project management with sophisticated GUI is problematic... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Russ Posted Monday at 06:14 PM Author Share Posted Monday at 06:14 PM What I am looking for is something that will scan all files in my Cakewalk Projects/Sonar directory, and output a list of what instruments are used in each project. Nothing too complex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azslow3 Posted Monday at 07:11 PM Share Posted Monday at 07:11 PM I will try... may be tomorrow, but that is not hard deadline 😏 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azslow3 Posted Tuesday at 12:58 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 12:58 PM https://www.azslow.com/index.php?action=downloads;sa=downfile&id=104 Command line tool, for one file. But example BAT to scan current directory included. The result can be redirected to file, f.e. cwpsynth_dir.bat > all_synth.txt 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Russ Posted Tuesday at 02:11 PM Author Share Posted Tuesday at 02:11 PM Thank you, I'll give it a try later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timboalogo Posted Tuesday at 08:02 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 08:02 PM (edited) On 10/14/2025 at 8:58 AM, azslow3 said: https://www.azslow.com/index.php?action=downloads;sa=downfile&id=104 Command line tool, for one file. But example BAT to scan current directory included. The result can be redirected to file, f.e. cwpsynth_dir.bat > all_synth.txt Alexei you are a genius! Edited 21 hours ago by timboalogo spelling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Russ Posted Wednesday at 03:20 PM Author Share Posted Wednesday at 03:20 PM This works nicely. Now I realized I have a lot of tracks with Alchemy I am going to want to bounce in case I have problems installing it when I replace my current DAW machine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moddelmog Posted yesterday at 02:13 PM Share Posted yesterday at 02:13 PM On 10/13/2025 at 1:32 PM, azslow3 said: I have just tried and it couldn't find Kontakt, at least it was not listed in plug-ins. While I am not going to re-create that tool, if you write what you really want and implementing that is relatively simple (for me), I may consider to write that. F.e. a command line tool which list all synths in specified project (can be saved into file, run from a batch script which search CWP files, etc.) is not a big problem. Project management with sophisticated GUI is problematic... I just used Projectscope to search for projects with Kontakt. It returned probably close to 100 projects. For the ones returned for at least the past 5 years, Kontakt was inserted via "Insert/Soft Synth." I couldn't say whether it wfound every instance of Kontakt, but it certainly seems like it based on the number of projects. Also, if I search, for example, "Kontakt 8," it just returns projects with Kontakt 8. One shortfall is that sorting by date sorts first by the first letter of the month name, so it's not remotely chronological. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azslow3 Posted 22 hours ago Share Posted 22 hours ago Note that in your screenshot there is a track "Kontakt 1 Main" and "Plug-Ins" list doesn't include Kontakt... So you have found tracks which mentioned Kontakt, not Kontakt in the synth list. Depending how someone defines track names that can be close to the same. Some users name tracks based on sound kind, not plug-in type. Also if the goal is find all synths, searching particular one doesn't help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Russ Posted 17 hours ago Author Share Posted 17 hours ago As another example, I had a few tracks using Abbey Road Drums and Scarbee Rick Bass where the tracks were simply named AR Drums and Bass, with no other Kontakt instruments. Project scope could not find those because it was searching by track names and not instruments names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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