I recently changed from an iMac to a Mac Studio. I am using Cubase 14. Doing this required that I purchase updates for all of my VST3’s, so all of them are now compatible with the Apple M1 chip configuration. I no longer have any VST2 plugins. The VST Plugin Manager shows that all of these VST’s are activated. I am able to add most of these VST’s into a project. However several of them, specifically Synthogy Ivory, MusicLab Real Guitar and Steven Slate SSD5 Drum Sampler do not show up at all. Any suggestions?
You’ll need to launch Cubase in Rosetta mode to use VST2’s. When in Rosetta mode, you’ll see an option to enable VST2 in the lower right portion of the Plug-in Manager. I’d show a screenshot but I don’t run Rosetta 
Just to clarify, can you see the ‘missing’ plugins in Plugin Manager but not in the track insert dropdown list, or can you just not see them at all?
I can’t see them at all.
Have you checked in the VST3 folder to see if they’re actually there?
If you can’t see them at all what did you mean to say with the above sentence?
Hi,
maybe you were looking at the wrong spot.
These are VSTis - virtual instruments - you won’t find them on an insert slot.
Try to create a new instrument track and see if they show up.
If you are working with customized VSTi collections then go to Studio/VST Plugin Manager/VSTi and drag them into your current collection on the right side.
Thanks @Reco29 , I should have said instrument drop down list, not insert.
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I did something slightly different. I clicked on the VST’s that were displayed in the left panel of the VST Plug-in Manager but were missing in the right panel. Doing this automagically added them to the right panel and solved my problem. Thanks for your help.
I am glad it works!
Usually, clicking on a VST(i) reveals the location of the plugin in a customized collection on the right side. If it’s not there it won’t show - at least in customized collections. Apparently, It’s different in your case. You use the default plugin collection, right?
Sounds like you added your plugins to your custom plugin collection. If you are using custom plugin collections that is something you would have to do whenever you install a new plugin if you wish to have it be part of that collection.
Note that you can save multiple custom collections and that there is a Default collection that includes all your installed plugins and can’t be edited.
If you would have switched from a custom collection to the default one when trying to add a plugin, you would’ve seen all your installed plugins listed.
Yes. 
Wow, I didn’t expect that…!!
There seems to be a major difference how VSTs are added to Custom Plugin Collections between Windows and MacOs:
MAC
WINDOWS 10/11
That’s why I was thinking the OP was dealing with the Standard Collection which I haven’t touched in years (wasn’t in the studio at that time). I triple checked by now, also tried double-clicks. It’s exactly as I described on Windows.
@Mlib , you are on a Mac, too, right? Your signature doesn’t tell.
Okay, so on Macs you can add a VST to a custom collection just by clicking on it in the left row. No need to drag anything like on Windows. Interesting.
I got to admit - this one took me by surprise… 
Negative, Ghost Rider. It’s the same on MacOS
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LOL, either @mlib and @danika made a mistake or there are indeed differences in between different MacOS.
Either way, I’m off the hook to be the
Maybe they can double-check on their systems if it really behaves the way they described it.
I think @mlib just correctly identified what the issues was, not the actual behavior. My guess is that the OP’s description is off a bit. You can’t double-click, right-click, or otherwise add to the collection without dragging it over AFAIK. Not sure if there’s some key combo or such that will, but on my system that doesn’t work.
Ah, okay, that sounded like a direct confirmation of the OP’s described behaviour by @mlib !
Instead he was referring to something else:
“Sounds like you added your plugins to your custom plugin collection” was directed at the root of the misunderstanding and did not confirm the OP’s false assumption that clicking on a VST had anything to do with adding it to a collection.
Yes, that’s indeed another way to read it, thanks @Thor.HOG.
Moreover @danika’s reply to my question
wasn’t actually an answer to my question but a reply to @mlib’s post.
Guess that makes me the ghost rider again. To my excuse:
In the 1950s, a pragmatic linguist identified this core problem in human communication as the dilemma of the I-Now-Here origo. A speaker tends to believe that everyone knows what they mean, e.g:
On the phone: “I’m here” - “Where IS here?”
On the office door: “Back soon” - “When is soon?”
LOL
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