Reference Guide

1428 New features in SONAR X3
VST enhancements
The Browser status bar shows detailed information about the selected plug-in, including plug-in type,
vendor and version number.
Unlimited number of plug-ins in menus
Previous versions of SONAR would list up to 735 audio plug-ins and 255 soft synths in plug-in
menus. Any additional plug-ins that exceeded this limit would not be visible in menus unless you
used Plug-in Manager to create a custom plug-in menu layout.
If you exceed this plug-in count limit in SONAR X3, plug-in menus will display ellipsis after the plug-
in type name (Audio FX... and Soft Synths...), and clicking the menu command opens a pop-up
menu that displays the complete list of installed plug-ins.
See:
“Using the Plug-in Browser” on page 620
“Organizing plug-ins” on page 944
“New features in SONAR X3” on page 1423
Tip: If you have both VST2 and VST3 versions of plug-ins, you can instruct SONAR to automatically
hide any redundant VST2 plug-ins in order to limit the size of plug-in menus. For details, see
“Automatically migrate VST2 plug-ins to VST3 when available” on page 1426.