Renoise can't find plugins after vendor renames them

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Renoise uses the filename and not the ID to identify a plugin, that’s why other DAWs find them still. I had similar issues when Renoise went 64bit, so you can use the following terminal script to upgrade your songs manually after editing the plugin table.

Snippet: Replace Plugin Ids Inside Song.xml

This script basically solves this problem for me. Not too much error checking is done but it works and is much less a hassle than doing it all manually. You may have to adjust the plugin table for your own needs first. In my case the key “m” is the x86 filename and “r” the x64 one. You can also fix plugins with version numbers in the filename for example. The replaced plugin HAS to be preset compatible, otherwise the new song will probably not load correctly. Download the script, since it includ…

Also put an enhanced plugin search into Ideas and Suggestions, but not many people seem to run into this.

Improve Missing Plugin Search To Use Plugin Id

Don’t know how much work this would be, but i would find it very handy if Renoise could search for a plugin with the same plugin ID first before telling me the plugin could not be found. I have switched to Renoise x64 and a lot of 64bit plugins use a different filename than the 32bit version. I guess the plugin still uses the same ID though and could be identified easy?