Half of my VST's don't load up anymore after switching from 19 to 20

Jimmyhogs wrote on 8/12/2022, 9:41 AM


Don't mind the theme in the background, but I am using an Intel Core i9-9900K processor with 64gb of ram and a NVIDIA RTX 2080 graphics card (I use Windows 10). I have the same folder path set for both versions (Vegas Pro 19.0.0.643 and Vegas Pro 20.0.0.139), but I think most of the plugins (I think they are 64 Bit) that don't show up are VST2's and I do not have a lot of VST3 plugins. I mainly do video effects with like certain effects, which require certain plugins to do certain effects, even the popular ones in the community (such as IL Vocodex, 4ormulator, Bitcrusher, and more) don't work either. I even tried opening a project on the new version from the older version and it doesn't load up. I also noticed that some plugins just refuse to even show up in the list and some of them (that I had to select manually) just refuse to load. I hope this at least gets fixed in the next build, or if there is a fix for it, since I feel like the VST Bridge caused issues for half of my VST's.

Comments

RogerS wrote on 8/12/2022, 9:44 AM

You did hit refresh after adding the folders?

Jimmyhogs wrote on 8/12/2022, 10:08 AM

Yes, I have even restarted vegas pro many times and my pc too

rraud wrote on 8/23/2025, 12:01 PM

but I think most of the plugins that don't show up are VST2's

I am not sure about Vegas 19 or 20, but Vegas 21 and 22 has a 'Enable support of 32 bit VST 2 plug-ins' option (Options> Preferences> Audio), Of coarse the VST search folders must still be set accordingly. and 32 bit VSTs are normally somewhere in the 'Program files (x86)' folder.

Jimmyhogs wrote on 10/8/2025, 10:41 AM

nah that didn't work, but jbridge did work for me instead

jiovanni wrote on 10/13/2025, 1:54 PM

One thing that I have noticed when upgrading Vegas is that we should not uninstall the old program before installing the new one. Uninstall the old version after you have open some old files from the new program, open the VSTs settings, save the files to the new version to ensure the settings migrate to the new version. I have been using Vegas for over 20 years and the VST and plug ins settings were the first nightmare I encountered when upgrading, most of my settings have been migrated to the new software for that long. Good thing is that if you don't select to delete old setting when uninstalling, they are still on your computer. So if you already uninstalled the old version, you can install it again and all settings should be there, then install the new version, verify the setting with the old files, if satisfied then remove the old version.