I’m running Cubase 11.0.41 on a Windows 11 machine. All works fine.
I had a bunch of Izotope plugins installed, including Ozone 9.11.1, and all worked fine. Up until recently…
I noticed recently that all my Izotope plugins are now blacklisted in Cubase VST Plug In Manager:
I tried to uninstall and reinstall Ozone 9, via Izotope’s Product Portal, using their default install path settings but that didn’t solve the problem.
Does anyone know how I can sort this out?
Cheers,
Romeo
Hit the Rescan All to right of Search box.
Make sure your OZONE is the 64 bit version as well
That does not look abnormal to me. iZotope doesn’t make it easy to install all of their software. It looks like you have one of the bundles. If you saved the installers. I Highly suggest that you always save a backup of all installers in a studio to a separate disk from anything else. It can save hours. But if you do, I suggest uninstalling and going through the installs again and making sure to only select the 64 bit VST3 option. That will give you the cleanest install for Cubase possible. There are a few of their products that are VST2.4 only, like Trash if I remember correctly.
Or if it doesn’t bother you, you can just leave it as it is. Look over in the Effects section or the Instrument section, and it is likely that there are non Blacklisted versions of all of the plugins you see in the image. In fact, there are likely multiple copies of those there. You can either go through and disable the older versions yourself, or reinstall iZotope plugins as discussed above.
Did you notice that the plugin folder its going to is VST3 on the left but the plugin version on the right of the screen is VST2? that is very odd
from what i do remember, these file are not the plugin files but the program files from Izotope, from what i can remember i had a similar issue as well when i did install them on my system a while ago.
you should need to install these files to a different location and not into a location that will be also used from cubase to scan the plugins
and then also, like written before, ensure you only install the vst3 version and not the other formats
and then perhaps still, is a manual cleanup necessary
Thanks for all your answers (and yes, @shanabit , I thought that was odd too).
I spoke to Izotope support; they took me through a few steps (deleting the blacklist and plugin directories in Cubase logs) but that didn’t work.
However, they did suggest that maybe it is because I’m running Windows 11, and their plugins aren’t officially compatible yet…
I dug into their website; yep; they only have Windows 10 compatibility but are “working” on updating.
I think the problem may well have started when I upgraded to Windows 11, so that would make sense.
That said, anyone else running Windows 11, Cubase 11 and Ozone 9 without difficulty?
oops. right. Sorry. I can confirm that iZotope and W11 are not a good mix.
Yes, I’ve upgraded my PC to Windows 11 after the release of Cubase 12. Ozone 9 and all other iZotope plugins I own still work without problems with Cubase 11 and 12. Only few VST2 versions of them have been blacklisted. Their VST3 counterparts work properly.
I’ve got ozone running on win 11 but I’ll have to turn my computer on to see what version.
Izotope is a different animal. I’ve spent a lot of time organizing my plugins and what I’ve learned about the Izotope product is that (in Windows) all the actual programs are stored here: This PC > Local Disk (C:) > Program Files > Common Files > VST3 > iZotope . These files/programs are .dll files that are triggered by .exe files found here: This PC > Local Disc (C:) Program Files > iZotope > (for example) RX 9 Audio Editor > win64 .
I think what you are seeing, noting the correct path (VST3) to the .dll file, is that you have also installed the VST2 .exe file. In your Blocklist pic, Cubase is telling you that Cubase will not open the VST3 .dll files using the VST2 .exe file.
Yes, CB11, W11 and I have tried everything, on 5th reinstall and I don’t know how many times I’ve deleted the blacklist. Mr Roos the last poster seemed to know the problem, but no solution.
Hop on the Isotope subscription and Im sure it will work just fine 
I have Ozone elements among others (on W11) with CB11 and there does not appear to be any facility for just installing the VST3 version, well not from their Product Portal anyway. It seems to install all versions and then Cubase blacklists what it doesn’t like. I did try removing what I thought were the blacklisted versions but ended up in a right mess so I just accept the blacklist because VST3 does show up and it does work.
Wait. I thought I was clear. Maybe not. So…
Go to your Block List header and click on one of the blocked VST2 plugins. Look at the location of the file. Go there and delete every one of these VST 2 plugins. At this point your Block List will not find them and your scanning time will improve.
BUT!!! DO NOT delete the .dll files found in the Common Files > Vst3 > iZotope folder. These .dll files are actually the souce files for the VST3 iZotope plugin. IF YOU ERASE THE .dll FILE, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO USE THE VST3 IZOTOPE PLUGIN.
When Peter Cee said he ran into a problem, I have to think he deleted the .dll files found in the VST3 folder. You cannot do this with the iZotope plugin.
Izotop is on blacklist at least 5 years, they must have some special plugin sistem that is recognized as 32bit plugins. I instaled new sistem for my friend from scratch with W11, Cubase 12 and Izotope plugins and there is finally no blacklisted izotop plugins.
Those are not plug-ins. Those are the program DLLs that are used by the plug-ins. Every DAW will blacklist those, as they are not VST plug-ins. The blacklist basically tells Cubase not to waste time scanning something that isn’t a legitimate plug-in in the future. That is normal.
DO NOT move or delete those files.
Leave them be. EVERY audio application on your system will blacklist them, as they are not VST plug-ins. They are program files used by the VST plug-ins. If you move or delete them, ALL of your iZotope plug-ins will break, and then you will have to do a complete re-install of all of them or move the files back. The plug-ins look for those files in the VST installation directory.
iZotope isn’t the only vendor that puts program data in the VST plug-in folder.
I’m having the same problem in Windows 10
Yep. I found this out the hard way.
You are correct, they are other DLLs that Izotope use and are not VST DLLs.
If only Windows had a directory called Program Data, that vendors could use to put, say, program data in. Lazy programming is what I call it!
