If somebody who knows their way around a registry should tell me that the instructions on that page are still valid, I'd be more inclined to try to use it to manually add SF9. I don't consider myself a 'power user' of Windows, so I generally don't go haring around changing the registry as I please. Only thing is, I think it was written for XP or something, because when I tried it the very first step did not work the way it was described. I have seen the digifreq page about changing the registry. (Eventually I uninstalled Audio Studio.) I expect they went into the same limbo the SF9 plug-ins are in. And after that, suddenly the Audio Studio plug-ins did not show up in Sonar any more, and they never did again. Anyway, one way or another, I have a feeling I uninstalled and reinstalled Sonar a time or three. Here's the vague part: at about the same time I was trying really hard to get that Sonar Power Studio software registered and/or possibly it was about that time that I got Producer and installed it. Which brings up kind of a long story and vague because I don't remember it too well, but it might contain some crucial info: at some point before I got SF9 I purchased Audio Studio, installed it, and all the Audio Studio plug-ins were all right there as audio effects on the Sonar plug-in menu. I am also concerned about tididit's question about a 64-bit engine making plug-ins useless, but I'm certainly using a lot of plug-ins that ship with Sonar, plus a few outside plug-ins like BFD and Pod Farm. By the way, Sonar Utils tells me that SF9 is already in the Tools menu. I don't find any documentation for Sonar Utils anywhere, and I don't know how to change that.

When I run Sonar Utils the 'owner' of Sonar is listed as a guy I purchased Sonar Power Studio from on E-bay when I was just getting started and didn't understand the Cakewalk licensing rules, and before I purchased the licensed copy of Producer I now own.

I think it may have something to do with old installs and the registry.

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