Plugins that had been working went missing in Cubase 13

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Hi, I’m new to the forum, so forgive me if this question has already been discussed.
I’ve been using Cubase 13 for a while and recently downloaded a trial version of 14. Now when I open 13, several plug-ins aren’t there any more. Some (tube compressor, tone booster) are Steinberg and at least one (FabFilter Pro-Q 3) is someone else. They don’t show up in 14 either. I don’t know if downloading Cubase 14 had anything to do with it.
They are gone from the plugin manager, not in the blocklist either.
When I re-downloaded Pro-Q 3, it worked normally, but as a new plugin, as in, it does not show up in track presets that included it before. How might I be able to fix this?

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Hi and welcome to the forum,

This has been discussed here on the forum already.

VST2 plug-ins are disabled by default in Cubase 14. You have to open the VST Plug-in Manager and enable them.

Btw, if you are on Mac with M processors, the VST2 plug-ins are not supported at all in the Native mode. You would need to start Cubase in Rosetta mode.

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The issue is with Cubase 13 as well as 14 and enabling them in 14 did not bring back Tone booster or the tube compressor. I believe these are default Cubase plug ins. And let me clarify that they were working in Cubase 13 before.
I went and double-checked the plug-in path settings in the VST Plug-in Manager and noticed something strange; the ones with “VST2” in the name are gone. The path still shows in the plug-in manager, but the folders themselves are gone.

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Hi,

Do you use the Default Plug-ins Configuration or a custom one? Aren’t these plug-ins blocklisted or hidden?

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Ok, my computer completely crashed after my last post, and I had to reinstall Windows, Cubase, and everything else. It all works now. Probably some system files were corrupted.