Reference Guide

SONAR basics

Introduction

To exclude a plug-in from X-Ray capablity, follow these steps:

1. Open the Cakewalk Plug-in Manager: use the Utilities > Cakewalk Plug- in Manager

command.

2. In the Plug-in Categories window, select the category that the plug-in you want to exclude is in.

3. In the Registered Plug-ins window, select the plug-in that you want to exclude.

4. If the plug-in is a DirectX effect or an MFX, write down (or select and copy) the CLSID value

that’s in the CLSID field at the bottom of the dialog.

5. If the plug-in is a VST or VSTi, write down the VST ID value that’s in the VST ID field at the

bottom of the dialog.

6. Close the Plug-in Manager dialog.

7. Open the Xrayexclude.ini file that’s in your SONAR program folder (use Notepad).

8. At the end of the file, find the [EffectProps View] section.

You will see entries such as the following:

; Waves SSL EQ Stereo

XRayExclude11=1397510483

XRayExclude12={E451379E-F7E1-4E82-98D9-BEB87AC45E90}

9. Exclude your plug-in by creating a blank line below the last entry in the [EffectProps View]

section, and then typing:

;[name of your plug-in, but withour brackets]

XRayExclude[type the next available number in XRayExclude list, but without brackets]=[VST ID

number, with no brackets, or CLSID number, with curly braces at start and finish]

For example, if the last entry in the [EffectProps View] section was:

; Waves SSL EQ Stereo

XRayExclude11=1397510483

XRayExclude12={E451379E-F7E1-4E82-98D9-BEB87AC45E90}

And you wanted to exclude the Cakewalk FxDelay from the X-Ray Windows feature, after

creating a blank line you would type:

; Cakewalk FxDelay

XRayExclude13={985DAF67-589F-4B8D-8BBC-D7AD651B9022}

If there was also a VST version of the Cakewalk FxDelay, you would add another line:

XRayExclude14=[some VST ID number, with no brackets]

10. Save and close the Xrayexclude.ini file, and restart SONAR to implement your changes.