izotope's rx finds only VST2 , not the VST3 of some plugins. some plugins are vst3 only, so it doesn't find them at all. For me, that was SSL's x-saturator plugin, and zplane's PEEL Stems, and others. I've heard this includes Bluecat's patchwork also. There is a workaround for this. Izotope support recommends moving the vst3 in question to the the root of your vst3 install directory. This would break updates, though, and break some plugins altogether (some of them need resources in the expected paths). Instead i found you can make a link. say you have a vst3 called combox in "\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\COMBOX.vst3\Contents\x86_64-win\COMBOX.vst3" ; in windows you can use mklink to create a symbolic link. you need to open a cmd prompt as administrator to do this. C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3>mklink /? Creates a symbolic link. MKLINK [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] Link Target SSL saturator was another example of a plugin rx could not see. pictured is the end result of: mklink "C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\SSL Native x-Saturate Just 4 RX.vst3" "C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\SSL Native X-Saturator v6.vst3\Contents\x86_64-win\SSL Native X-Saturator v6.vst3" Now RX can use it! for mac, you would use terminal instead of cmd, and 'ln' instead of 'mklink', like so : ln -s /path/to/original /path/to/link Unlike windows, on a mac you can also do this from the gui just in Finder. see details here: https://www.howtogeek.com/297721/how-to-create-and-use-symbolic-links-aka-symlinks-on-a-mac/

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