plug-in control tool

In Sonar 6 there is a really useful tool for controlling plug-ins. You can enable or disable plug-ins as you wish and set up plug-in menus to suit the way you work.

This is an area where Audition could be improved I feel. As it is now, every time you add a plug-in you have to rescan all plug-ins (both dx and VST - yaaaawn) and if you have trouble with a plug-in or between two plug-ins, you have no tools to help locate which one is the culprit. I currently have a problem where all plug-ins are taking about 10 times longer to load than they ought to. My options for trying to fix this are currently re-installing AA, or remove plug-ins one by one and hope that I find the problem. With the way AA is now, removing one plug-in, rescanning, testing and repeating will take about a week! So letæs hope reinstalling AA fixes it 

While it would be nice if Audition managed this more gracefully, there are third party tools which do exactly what you want. Names like AnalogX's DXMan come to mind but do a search on this forum and you'll probably find a few other suggestions.

Cheers

James.

DXMan is fine for DX effects but I mostly use VST and I can't find anything for that. If you know of any I would be grateful to hear about them

Eureka,

AA had it all the time! I found this link

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=330271

This is the relevant bit

Managing VST plug-ins

Adobe Audition automatically starts the VST Plug-in Manager if a plug-in fails to initialize, but you can also use it to customize the use of VST plug-ins in Adobe Audition.

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To manaully turn on the VST plug-in manager for customizing VST plug-ins in Adobe Audition:

1. Choose Start > Run.

2. Type regedit in the Open text box and press Enter.

3. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Audition\2.0\Prefs in the Registry Editor dialog box.

4. Open the VSTPluginMgr key, change the Value Data from 0 to 1 , and then click OK.

5. Close the Registry Editor.

6. Restart Adobe Audition, choose Effects > Refresh Effects List, and click OK to confirm the refresh.

7. When the VST Plug-in Manager dialog appears, choose which plug-ins you wish Adobe Audition to use.

After doing this, the table comes up and you select your vst plugins - great!

This works very well (I had a problem with a rogue VST and this automatically appeared.  I would like to see it for DX as well, though.

I would like to see it for DX as well, though.

See my reply further up this thread...

Cheers

James.

I would like to see it for DX as well, though.

See my reply further up this thread...

Cheers

James.

That's all very well, but in an application like AA which is a professional editing tool, you expect all this to be included in the package, not to have to use OEM tools to do the job. If you have the chance, take a look at how Sonar handles it - easy, elegant and effective!

I agree.  It would be nice if it did this with DX...And it would be nice if the whole thing could be accessed a little more easily.  I'm pleased with the VST tool itself, but Adobe should easily be able to put this in a menu.

Emmett

Oh, and one other thing!

Why oh why must AA rescan EVERY plugin when you refresh the list? In Sonar it only scans changes, surely AA isn't so special that it can't manage that? It would save about 5 minutes every time you change a plugin!