if you're just getting started in tracktion waveform 10 you might be
wondering how to install VST plugins in waveform 10 I'm going to go over that in
this video
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I'm Radio zane and in this video we're going to be looking at installing a VST
plugin and getting it to work in tracktion waveform 10 so let's get
started first let's download a plug-in to
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of sales they have today so I've downloaded the plug-in that I want to
install in this case it's the synsonic BD 808 drum machine plug-in this is free
unplug in boutique if you want to grab it you can so what we first want to do
is unzip this and once it's unzipped click on the
installer we're going to use the 64-bit installer because that's what this
system is now this is what you want to look at right here the destination
folder so this one wants to install in C Program Files
Steinberg VST plugins that's fine with me that's one of the standard folders
that plugins tend to install to so I'm just going to hit install but if you had
a different folder where you want plugins to be installed you can select
that one now it says the plug-in has been installed so we can close the
Installer now we'll open up waveform and we're
going to go into settings you then want to go down to the plugins tab and here
we're going to click on scanning and sorting we're going to scan for new or
updated VST plugins' and you can see here I have folders already in there
but if I didn't have these folders in there I would click on this plus sign
and we know that we just installed it to the C program files Steinberg VST
plugins folder so we would go through this menu and find that there's Program
Files Steinberg VST plugins and we would click
OK on that and you can do that for whatever plug-in folder you want the
ones here C:/ Program Files VST plugins that's a common one and C program files
86 VST plugins is also a common one so you may want to add those folders if you
don't have them already and once you do have all the folders that you want to
scan just click the Scan button
and sometimes you get this message that says the following appeared to be plug
in files but failed to load correctly and it might list some there
I always hit okay and those plugins always show up for me so I think what
those are are 32-bit plugins and this system only wants 64-bit plugins so now
we'll look for the plug-in that we just installed
make sure it's in this list there it is the synsonic BD 808 so we
know that it's installed properly and we're ready to go so let's start a new
project
we're going to right click over here and add a new plugin
so we know it installed to the steinberg VST plugins folder there it is there
click on it and we now have our BD 808 drum machine loaded up let's hear how it
sounds so what we'll need to do is add a MIDI clip to the track and to do that
you can drag this plus sign down into the track let go of the mouse it's going
to ask you what type of clip you want to insert
so we're going to be inserting a MIDI clip here
[BD 808 Drum Sounds]
and there you have it you should now have a successfully installed VST
plug-in and you should be able to use it on a track plus use a MIDI clip to
control it now if you wanted to add any other effects to this you could just
right click over here add new plug-in will add a compressor plug-in and you
want to make sure that comes after the instrument so you just drag it over to
the other side of the instrument we will choose a preset here we might as well go
with drums because this is a drum and let's hear what that sounds like
let me know in the comments below what plugin or plugins you plan on using in
tracktion waveform 10 you can also let me know if you have any other questions
about this great software thank you so much for checking out this video if
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video for simple green tech I'm Radio zane and we'll talk soon